I'm sure that not showing up for work without a valid reason will catapult your career ahead.

For a couple years I worked with a female engineer, a very rare breed. She'd work 2 months, take a week off, work another couple months, take two weeks off. In her first year she took 6 weeks off when she was entitled to three (not sure how management allowed this). 

Then she got pregnant, left for a year, came back for 8 months, got pregnant and left for a year, returned for 6 months and quit to become a stay at home mom.

She had a degree and an opportunity in a male dominated field but had zero interest in working. She used the job to qualify for EI and make some spare cash between vacations and then left the workforce for good.

Stories like this are a dime a dozen.