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You can't leave your desk whenever you want. And when you leave your desk, you've always this social/peer pressure to ensure there aren't any complaints about y

• hcks 3y ago
  Im pretty sure the 500k employee at Google is vastly vastly more free to leave his desk than the small business owner making that much.
  • mholm 3y ago
    There's a wide range of workloads for small business owners. Sometimes a strategy finds a market and after significant effort to get to capture customers, doesn't take a lot of work to maintain. Others might be pulling 80 hour weeks for $40k/year
• blackoil 3y ago
  It is the other way around, as part of a large company you can take 2-4 weeks' vacation without any material impact to your career or companies' performance not so in your own startup. In many cases you can take 1 year sabbatical and join back where you left, with a startup you are tied to weekly and quarterly result.
  • steveBK123 3y ago
    Really depends on industry.. maybe at FAANG that is normal, elsewhere - no. I've worked almost 20 years now and haven't done a real 2-weeker vacation in 5 years, and probably won't again for a while. 4 week vacation is practically unheard of, as is sabbatical. Of course being a small business owner is not really compatible with 2-4 week vacations, BUT.. you are empowered to make that decision. Maybe you just drag your laptop with you and stay reachable / keep things moving along, but from whatever sunny location you've decided to holiday. Not much different than my last 6 day vacation where I had my laptop & work phone, and checked in on any urgent fires every morning & evening back at the hotel...
• siva7 3y ago
  That's 100x more true if you're a business owner. You can't take simply time off whereas as a employee you can