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Speaker 1: Good morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the New Corner Office.

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Speaker 1: Today's tip is to consider taking a working vacation. If

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Speaker 1: you handle it right, devoting a little time to work

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Speaker 1: while you're on vacation can enable you to take a

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Speaker 1: much longer vacation, and you and your family might just

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Speaker 1: decide that that's worth it. This episode is likely airing

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Speaker 1: while my family and I are at the beach. With

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Speaker 1: camps canceled this summer, we decided to tack on a

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Speaker 1: few extra weeks of rentals. I also took along my

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Speaker 1: laptop and scheduled some calls. Why well, if I do

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Speaker 1: a few hours of work while we're on vacation, we

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Speaker 1: can go for weeks. If I decided to draw a

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Speaker 1: bright line in the sand and say no work on vacation,

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Speaker 1: well we probably wouldn't go hang out on the literal

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Speaker 1: sand for more than a week if that. One of

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Speaker 1: the upsides of working from home is that you don't

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Speaker 1: always have to work from home. A coffee shop or

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Speaker 1: coworking space can provide some variety, and a table at

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Speaker 1: a beach rental can work too. Many people find it

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Speaker 1: hard to travel far if they don't have unlimited vacation days,

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Speaker 1: or even if they do. We all have jobs that

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Speaker 1: need to get done. But location flexibility makes it possible

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Speaker 1: to do some serious travel as long as work can

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Speaker 1: be part of the picture too. For instance, if you

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Speaker 1: elect to work on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday during a

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Speaker 1: vacation week, you can get a full week out a

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Speaker 1: vacation destination plus the weekends for the price of two

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Speaker 1: vacation days. Not bad. That means you could take a

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Speaker 1: full month somewhere for the price of eight or so days.

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Speaker 1: And if your office closes for a day or two

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Speaker 1: in there, as many people do for say the fourth

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Speaker 1: of July, then you can take a month for the

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Speaker 1: price of or seven vacation days. This is a pretty

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Speaker 1: good deal. It makes it possible to travel to some

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Speaker 1: exotic places. I know a lot of international travel is

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Speaker 1: still limited this year with COVID restrictions, but in the future,

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Speaker 1: an American family could go spend a month in Europe

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Speaker 1: with the breadwinner working remotely for ten days in there.

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Speaker 1: With the time difference, he or she wouldn't even have

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Speaker 1: to miss out on all the sight seeing on those days.

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Speaker 1: Working from two pm to ten pm in Spain could

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Speaker 1: cover a work day in the US and allow for

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Speaker 1: mornings with the family and museums. If you don't need

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Speaker 1: to keep track of vacation days, maybe because you work

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Speaker 1: for yourself, then this calculus is less relevant, But allowing

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Speaker 1: for some work during travel weeks can still open up possibilities.

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Speaker 1: Depending on where you're going and what you're doing. You

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Speaker 1: could either do an hour or two before the family

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Speaker 1: wakes up, or you could work for two to three

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Speaker 1: hours in the afternoon while everyone apps or has screen time.

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Speaker 1: If you choose your activities well, this can definitely be

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Speaker 1: enough to keep the business going without you feeling like

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Speaker 1: you're missing out. Just be sure to turn the business

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Speaker 1: off when you're not working so you can relax. The

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Speaker 1: good news is that unplugging for a little while will

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Speaker 1: probably help you gain a fresh perspective. That's true even

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Speaker 1: if you do a little work enough to make a

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Speaker 1: long vacation possible. Do you ever work strategically on vacations

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Speaker 1: in order to take a longer vacation. You can let

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Speaker 1: me know about it at Laura at Laura vandercam dot com.

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Speaker 1: In the meantime, this is Laura. Thanks for listening, and

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