This is my first year of my life accruing PTO, and now have a decent amount saved. The company I work for follows a federal calendar which means that only holidays observed by the government we get off. This means that after the holiday in mid january, we have a six month long holiday from holidays. Everyone in my company is taking PTO days right now, but I'm not, I'm going to use some to ensure I have at least a few 3 day weekends during that break.