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I don't follow this reasoning at all. Will the projects not need doing if you go away? Is the flight/resort cheaper than the activities you'd do at home? Can y

I don't follow this reasoning at all. Will the projects not need doing if you go away? Is the flight/resort cheaper than the activities you'd do at home? Can you not eat/drink/sleep when you want when you're home?

thisacctforreal 8y ago
It's about the stress of delegating time and money. With an all inclusive resort the questions "do I really need this?" or "maybe I should be doing something else" don't come up.
- guidoism 8y ago
  I wonder what it would cost to hire a maid and butler for your home for a week. Hmmm. I might just need to try that on our next staycation
  - ajhurliman 8y ago
    Even this is work, though. Hiring help is almost as bad as doing it yourself; they need to be endlessly managed between when they'll arrive/ depart, the scope of work, particularities about how to do the work, etc.
- thirdsun 8y ago
  I get your point and can relate, but it's an issue that you can control entirely. You already know that those questions shouldn't come up during your vacation, regardless of if you're at home or far away at the beach. So simply don't let them - it's that easy.
AnimalMuppet 8y ago
> Will the projects not need doing if you go away? No, but I won't be able to do them, because I'll be gone. I therefore won't feel like I should be working on them, because it won't be possible to work on them. But you may ask, won't I feel that I should be home working on them, instead of away on vacation? The answer is no, at least for me. I may be somewhat obsessive about the projects (or at least about feeling guilty for not working on them), but I'm not that obsessive. When I leave, I don't feel like I should be home so that I can work on them.
- copperx 8y ago
  Exactly. For me, being away is like turning my work "switch" to off. I know I may have email piling up, and that my problems aren't going to go away, but I feel that I'm free to ignore them because I'm physically distant from the location where I usually worry about them. I usually worry about work and emails when I'm home, and staying home wouldn't be relaxing, even though in theory I could just ignore everything.
- gehwartzen 8y ago
  No matter where I go on vacation (or even if I’m staycationing) I tell everyone in my office I will be backpacking in the mountains without access to cell reception.

thisacctforreal 8y ago

It's about the stress of delegating time and money. With an all inclusive resort the questions "do I really need this?" or "maybe I should be doing something else" don't come up.

guidoism 8y ago
I wonder what it would cost to hire a maid and butler for your home for a week. Hmmm. I might just need to try that on our next staycation
- ajhurliman 8y ago
  Even this is work, though. Hiring help is almost as bad as doing it yourself; they need to be endlessly managed between when they'll arrive/ depart, the scope of work, particularities about how to do the work, etc.
thirdsun 8y ago
I get your point and can relate, but it's an issue that you can control entirely. You already know that those questions shouldn't come up during your vacation, regardless of if you're at home or far away at the beach. So simply don't let them - it's that easy.

AnimalMuppet 8y ago

> Will the projects not need doing if you go away? No, but I won't be able to do them, because I'll be gone. I therefore won't feel like I should be working on them, because it won't be possible to work on them. But you may ask, won't I feel that I should be home working on them, instead of away on vacation? The answer is no, at least for me. I may be somewhat obsessive about the projects (or at least about feeling guilty for not working on them), but I'm not that obsessive. When I leave, I don't feel like I should be home so that I can work on them.

copperx 8y ago
Exactly. For me, being away is like turning my work "switch" to off. I know I may have email piling up, and that my problems aren't going to go away, but I feel that I'm free to ignore them because I'm physically distant from the location where I usually worry about them. I usually worry about work and emails when I'm home, and staying home wouldn't be relaxing, even though in theory I could just ignore everything.
gehwartzen 8y ago
No matter where I go on vacation (or even if I’m staycationing) I tell everyone in my office I will be backpacking in the mountains without access to cell reception.