I opened with the assumption that most of the families looking for daycare had "typical" jobs like my previous jobs were: M-F 8-5 with a few major holidays off.

Nope. I have a bunch of people who work remotely from home, so they are at their house but they still have to be available and working during their employer's hours. I have several who are self-employed and work long hours but fewer days. And then there are the folks in healthcare, whose day starts crazy early and ends late, and who are on rotating schedules that give them three days off in the middle of the week but then 10 days straight on either side of it.

So nope, none of my families have this holiday off from work, either because the holiday is irrelevant to their employer, or because the holiday is irrelevant to themselves.

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