Do You Stay Connected During Your Vacations?

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I agree with you 100% Hans - and as far as the wilderness goes I'd also like to see a ban on Jet skis and (if used simply for racing around) Snowmobiles. Back in the days when I worked for IBM followed your doctrine almost religiously. However, since becoming self-employed things have been very different. The longest time I have spent without checking email has been two business days. In part I can thank the spammers for that. When we first started I used an "Out of Office" message to tell people that I was away for a few days. The only result as far as I can tell was that within a week my daily spam volume doubled. Since then I have not used the OOO setting. This leaves me with a problem as unlike a contractor with a set number of clients I am completely reliant for my business on responding to queries as soon as they come in. If someone needs training they need it now - and a lack of response is taken as a lack of interest. These opportunities don't come up often enough to be able to ignore even one. Therein lies the problem of the small business - you can't afford to hire office staff and you can't afford to miss business.

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even when i got sent to iraq a few years ago, i did some work for the company, there. it was nearly nine months before they had an internet connection where i was stationed. i emailed my family, friends and co-workers. family and friend said the missed and loved me, co-workers wanted help with a /FREE program, because they did not even attempt to understand its syntax......arrgghhh! -sarge

[JonFParis]

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Indeed Par-tner is a role model couple for all us in the IT field. (30+ together?). Do not give these type of advices to this IT icon. Sorry to have to disillusion you Hassan - but it is actually "second time around" for both Susan and myself. We have been together now for about 14 years. And we have no intention of taking separate vacations - at least Susan has told me I'm doing that any time soon ;-)