>At some point being on vacation so much must hurt Ian Fleming wrote a new James Bond novel a year. He could do this because his job as an executive for a Brit

>At some point being on vacation so much must hurt Ian Fleming wrote a new James Bond novel a year. He could do this because his job as an executive for a British newspaper let him take a month off every year. He'd go to his Jamaican estate[1], write the novel, and bring it home. ... Good god. According to Wikipedia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Fleming#Post-war https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Fleming#Post-war>, his job let Fleming take three months off each year! Either way, I'm pretty sure the list of American non-owner executives who took a month or three off annually in the 1950s is very, very short. [1] Goldeneye[2] [2] Yes, that Goldeneye