Speaker 1: Good morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the New Corner Office.
Speaker 1: Today's tip is to consider taking a working vacation. If
Speaker 1: you handle it right, devoting a little time to work
Speaker 1: while you're on vacation can enable you to take a
Speaker 1: much longer vacation, and you and your family might just
Speaker 1: decide that that's worth it. This episode is likely airing
Speaker 1: while my family and I are at the beach. With
Speaker 1: camps canceled this summer, we decided to tack on a
Speaker 1: few extra weeks of rentals. I also took along my
Speaker 1: laptop and scheduled some calls. Why well, if I do
Speaker 1: a few hours of work while we're on vacation, we
Speaker 1: can go for weeks. If I decided to draw a
Speaker 1: bright line in the sand and say no work on vacation,
Speaker 1: well we probably wouldn't go hang out on the literal
Speaker 1: sand for more than a week if that. One of
Speaker 1: the upsides of working from home is that you don't
Speaker 1: always have to work from home. A coffee shop or
Speaker 1: coworking space can provide some variety, and a table at
Speaker 1: a beach rental can work too. Many people find it
Speaker 1: hard to travel far if they don't have unlimited vacation days,
Speaker 1: or even if they do. We all have jobs that
Speaker 1: need to get done. But location flexibility makes it possible
Speaker 1: to do some serious travel as long as work can
Speaker 1: be part of the picture too. For instance, if you
Speaker 1: elect to work on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday during a
Speaker 1: vacation week, you can get a full week out a
Speaker 1: vacation destination plus the weekends for the price of two
Speaker 1: vacation days. Not bad. That means you could take a
Speaker 1: full month somewhere for the price of eight or so days.
Speaker 1: And if your office closes for a day or two
Speaker 1: in there, as many people do, for say the fourth
Speaker 1: of July, then you can take a month for the
Speaker 1: price of six or seven vacation days. This is a
Speaker 1: pretty good deal. It makes it possible to travel to
Speaker 1: some exotic places. I know a lot of international travel
Speaker 1: is still limited this year with COVID restrictions, but in
Speaker 1: the future, an American family could go spend a month
Speaker 1: in Europe with the breadwinner working remotely for ten days
Speaker 1: in there. With the time difference, he or she wouldn't
Speaker 1: even have to miss out on all the sight seeing
Speaker 1: on those days. Working from two pm to ten pm
Speaker 1: in Spain could cover a work day in the US
Speaker 1: and allow for mornings with the family and museums. If
Speaker 1: you don't need to keep track of vacation days, maybe
Speaker 1: because you work for yourself, then this calculus is less relevant.
Speaker 1: But allowing for some work during travel weeks can still
Speaker 1: open up possibilities depending on where you're going and what
Speaker 1: you're doing. You could either do an hour or two
Speaker 1: before the family wakes up, or you could work for
Speaker 1: two to three hours in the afternoon while everyone now
Speaker 1: apps or has screen time. If you choose your activities well,
Speaker 1: this can definitely be enough to keep the business going
Speaker 1: without you feeling like you're missing out. Just be sure
Speaker 1: to turn the business off when you're not working so
Speaker 1: you can relax. The good news is that unplugging for
Speaker 1: a little while will probably help you gain a fresh perspective.
Speaker 1: That's true even if you do a little work enough
Speaker 1: to make a long vacation possible. Do you ever work
Speaker 1: strategically on vacations in order to take a longer vacation.
Speaker 1: You can let me know about it at Laura at
Speaker 1: Laura vandercam dot com. In the meantime, this is Laura.
Speaker 1: Thanks for listening, and here's the succeeding in the new
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