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Poll: When you take a true vacation, can you fully unplug from your freelance business?
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Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida  Identity Verified
Portugal
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Member (2007)
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I don't take vacations Jun 28

I work straight through the year. I used to take vacations when my children were still at home, but they are long gone and we haven’t spent vacations together for some time (trying to get 14 people agreeing on the same date and place is an almost impossible task…). I used to enjoy having one or two days off here and there between jobs, but now that work has been either scarce or very irregular these days ‘off’ make me more anxious than anything else. Anyway, summer months are usually my ... See more
I work straight through the year. I used to take vacations when my children were still at home, but they are long gone and we haven’t spent vacations together for some time (trying to get 14 people agreeing on the same date and place is an almost impossible task…). I used to enjoy having one or two days off here and there between jobs, but now that work has been either scarce or very irregular these days ‘off’ make me more anxious than anything else. Anyway, summer months are usually my best months… ▲ Collapse


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martini
martini
Italy
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I always take true vacations Jun 28

I can fully unplug from my freelance business.
Life is way too short to put off what really matters.
La vita è bella!

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Cecília Alves
Mark Cole
Lingua 5B
Maria Laura Curzi
 
WolfgangS
WolfgangS
France
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Define Jun 28

true vacation

Daryo
Philip Lees
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expressisverbis
expressisverbis
Portugal
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True vacation? Jun 29

Does this mean AI is going to make clients pay us better so we can take real luxurious vacations? 😂

WolfgangS
 
Lingua 5B
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Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Yes Jun 29

Yes, I can.

Doesn’t even have to be luxury to make it possible to unplug. Just a great environment and great company.

Maria Laura Curzi
 
Samuel Murray
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Netherlands
Local time: 16:52
Member (2006)
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True vacation Jun 29

To me, a true vacation is one where I find myself in a different, interesting place -- not one in which I have induced a certain kind of boredom. I have no difficulty working 5 hours a day while on a true vacation.
 


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