More than half of American workers do not take all of their yearly allotted vacation time. The work of an enrollment manager is rewarding, but indeed exhausting and the end of the year (which is really the half-way point of the academic calendar) is a great time to reconnect with your passion for this great work you do. Thom and Brad offer up a toast to you this Holiday season and chat about how to get the most out of your time off. Beers: Thom: New Belgium Brewing Company, Fort Collins, CO, www.newbelgium.com, Accumulation, White India Pale Ale, https://untappd.com/b/new-belgium-brewing-company-accumulation/280679 Brad: West 6th Brewing Company, Lexington, KY, www.westsixth.com, Pennyrile Pale Ale, https://untappd.com/b/west-sixth-brewing-pennyrile-pale-ale/1646198 References: State of American Vacation 2016, https://www.projecttimeoff.com/research/state-american-vacation-2016 This Is What Makes A Vacation Restorative, https://www.fastcompany.com/40422080/what-makes-a-vacation-restorative Happy, healthy, and productive: the role of detachment from work during nonwork time, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20836591 Music: Artist: Jazzar, http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jahzzar/ Track: Take Me Higher, http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jahzzar/Tumbling_Dishes_Like_Old-Mans_Wishes/Take_Me_Higher_1626 Used under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) License, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/, No revisions made.