Boss, im taking the day off to explore more options.
One time near Christmas my family was going to Colorado (this was when I was 17) I wanted to go, so I go up to the supervisor that does the schedules and asked for the week of christmas off.
He said, no thats not fair for the other employees.
I then told him "Frank, look, im going to Colorado, you can schedule me if you want but you better be sure you have a replacement cause I will not show up to work. I promise you, getting fired cause im going on a snowboarding trip for a week is the best damn reason to get fired I can think of, and I will still sleep soundly at night."
This was when I was working at Kroger in the Customer Service Dept.
Safe to say, I got the week off
Do I feel bad about this? NO! Hell I have a life to live, not a life to work.