Ah, summertime. Lazy days, holidays, vacation days. But are you too tired and burned out to benefit? A Yahoo! HotJobs survey says you might be:
Nearly half of the respondents (49%) said they feel “burned out” by their jobs, and many did not fully use vacation time as a remedy. Out of 1,800 professionals surveyed, 45% said they did not use all of their vacation days allotted in 2006, and 39% said they were too tired to take a “real” vacation during their days off.
Vacations can be stressful in themselves — they may be expensive and you might come back to an overload of work when you return. Sometimes it’s easier to just skip the trip.
I’m on vacation next week and thinking I will bring my laptop so I don’t get too far behind. I’ll hand off some of my regular responsibilities so I hope it will be a chance to feel extra-inspired rather than overstressed.
I don’t need a complete break from work, just enough space to think about things in a different way. As Ryan Healy says:
The problem with having an arbitrary ten or fifteen days of vacation where you can escape from your cubicle is that it implies we need to completely escape to stay sane. I don’t know about you guys, but if I need to pretend that work doesn’t exist when I am on vacation, then I am in the wrong line of work.
What are your vacation plans, if any, for this summer? Will you leave work completely behind?
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