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A two-week vacation: Yay or nay?
Do you take a one week summer vacation or a more extended one? I’m considering doing two weeks next year and I have been thinking about how that interacts with work commitments.For the past few years, we’ve rented a house for one week right on the Delaware Bay. By the time we really get settled in and start to relax, it is just about Wednesday. And we leave on Saturday. So we’ve been thinking about getting away for two weeks next year.
This year, I probably billed about five hours total over the course of the week-long vacation — pretty good, I think (from the vantage of trying to spend as much time as possible with my family). I monitored a number of things, but I ignored (or at least held off a substantive response to) a lot of non-urgent e-mails. Being gone just a week allows you to hold people at bay until you get back. But I know that a two-week hiatus does not.
If we do end up taking two weeks, I assume that I won’t be able to avoid most standing conference calls and I would probably have to do a few half-day stints of working (if not more).
So, which is better? Taking one week and REALLY escaping from work? Or taking two weeks and still being required to have a decent level of connectivity?
