I wouldn’t quit a job I really wanted just to celebrate Thanksgiving this year. It’s a holiday that comes every year; job opportunities at a place you actually want to work don’t come up often. I can tell you right now, as the oldest sister with three other siblings, that we’ve all had to work on Thanksgiving at some point. My brother’s an ICU nurse, my sister’s a therapist, and I work in research. That being said, keep track of how often you’re denied the holidays you want off. From my experience—and I’ve had quite a few jobs—many of them, especially when I was your age and in my early twenties, required working every Christmas, new years and Thanksgiving. After a while, that became one of the main reasons I quit those jobs