Many of our customers are small business owners, like ourselves. Many of mine have frequently said they don’t take vacations because they can’t afford to close business.
Do you feel the same? Or do you have a tried and true strategy for taking time off?
Last one i took that i viewed as a real vacation was 2015. Road trip with wife - niagara falls, Chicago (cub’s game), Pittsburgh zoo, D.C. - 2 weeks.
A week every February. Residential is slow but about to pick up, it’s far enough from Christmas, and I can rearrange my routes so I don’t miss anything. Usually go to Cali and legoland, seaworld, da beach. etc.
Every couple of months we get away from the area to clear our heads and relax for a long weekend. Every winter for about a month we travel. We shoot for February.
If we work too much we end up feeling like we want to escape it. Work just enough and you’ll maintain a love for it.
What is this word “vacation” you speak of? To be honest I think of work as a vacation. Its easy and I make money. Every time I go some where I’m exhausted when I get back and I’m broke. Lol. Lets see the last time I left on a “real vacation” was 2002. The wife and kids go on vacation a lot so that is sort of like having a vacation.
“Better is a handful of rest, than two handfuls of hard work and striving after the wind”
We went to the Cape for a few days in May. We tend to take a few mini trips throughout the year, versus longer excursions. But I think we’re due for a nice long getaway soon.
We do spring break every year this year Florida last year Punta Cana. Usually do the cabin most weekends June July and August and am at the cabin now for a week and a half.
The crew keep jobs going the entire time, just set up rather simple stuff