Jhyimy Mhiyles has lived at Bondi Beach, Sydney, Australia for five years. He has now won a battle with the local city council to be able to stay there. What is so great about this is that people pay millions of dollars to have an apartment on the world famous beach, and he gets to do it for free, with the support of the people! That’s what I’m talking about. The “Bondi Caveman” has got the right idea.
This article is from the Lexington Herald Reader by Tom Walker. This is what I’m hoping will change.
Futurists in the 1970s predicted that, by now, technology would have so shrunk our workloads that we’d all be paddling about in a leisure-and-vacation playland. How wrong they were.
“Vacation season is upon us, and a new survey by employment firm Hudson says more than half of American workers fail to take all their vacation days,” BusinessWeek (May 21) reports. “Thirty percent say they use less than half their allotted time. And 20 percent take only a few days instead of a week or two.”
Among so-called extreme jobholders — what author Sylvia Ann Hewlett calls the professional class upper crust — 42 percent claim they have to cancel vacation plans “regularly.” Americans take even less vacation than the Japanese, the people who gave rise to karoshi — the phenomenon of being worked to death. The always-available executive is dangerous, BusinessWeek says. That kind of chief executive “subtly undermines” employees by telegraphing that they are “incapable of running things on their own.”
Personally, I believe that a lot of this is holdover from the yuppie movement of the eighties. As I was watching Wall Street the other night, I thought how crazy that was to want to work 80 to 100 hours a week. I realize that these people were, and are, making more money than I’ll ever see, but is that really the point? What’s the point of having all that money if you never have time to enjoy it? When one third of workers get less than one weeks vacation, and twenty percent of people plan only long weekends instead of a proper vacation, I think somethings wrong. And there is no such thing as a working vacation, it’s one or the other, not both. I want to be comfortable financially, I want to retire and travel, but I also want to have vacation time (while I’m young enough to enjoy it).
I’m still waiting for my robot.
23rd May, 2007
Working and Living on the Beach. My Ideas on Vacation.
I’m sitting in a lounge chair on my back porch, working of course, and my neighbor walks up and says “Man, have you got it made!” I had to say that I did. The more I thought about it, the more I realized how much I love my job. I’d love to live at the beach, and as long as I can get an internet connection, I can work. I can work from just about anywhere in the world! How awesome is that. Not only living like a beach bum, but also making money sitting in a lounge chair on the beach; I’m halfway there!
I wanted to share some thoughts on vacations. I’ve seen a lot of people who are going on vacation who think that they have to get everything in that they can. They have to see this place, they have to eat here, don’t forget to check this out. Now I love to see things, and find out about the history, ad of course eat good local food, but that can really tire you out. What’s the point of going on vacation if you never relax. Some people like to keep busy, and more power to them, but I think that many of those people just have never learned to relax, and just enjoy time. I have a trip I’m planning to Negril, Jamaica over at Yahoo! Travel, and there is not much planned on it. I don’t want to be rushing around to keep a schedule. I want to wake up early, go to bed late, and enjoy the beach, and the Jamaican lifestyle as much as I can. Obviously, I don’t have kids. But my parents did. I was there, I know. We didn’t do a lot on vacation, but then we went to Newport, Rhode Island to see family, so we kids had other kids.The point was not to go see everything Newport has to offer, although it has a lot, but to get to the beach, and enjoy the time we had together. That is a vacation. Not to say that I don’t want to do anything in Jamaica, I just don’t want a schedule to take up all my time.
22nd May, 2007
Galveston, Texas Beaches and Summer Fun. Family Vacations on the Gulf Coast of Texas.
Although I have never been to Galveston, I have been to San Antonio, and I thought it was a great town. If Galveston is anything like that, then the beaches there should be pretty good. My parents have been there, and they loved it. There are many activities, shows, competitions and of course waves in Galveston during the summer. Maybe I’ll have to plan to get down there, after all, from everything I’ve heard, the Gulf has some beautiful water.
22nd May, 2007
Sir Anthony Hopkins, a Beach Bum?
Could it be, that I’m in better company than I thought? Sir Anthony Hopkins is also a beach bum. He says “I enjoy life. Walking on the beach, painting, reading and composing music.” That’s pretty cool, since I enjoy all that too, well maybe except for the painting part. My artistic ability is about as alive as a dead clam.
21st May, 2007
Living on the Beach. Beaches Around the World
You gotta love the beach. I don’t think I know anyone who doesn’t. I could live my life in a cabin on the beach. A professional beach bum. That is what I should be. Just trying to find a career in that field is pretty hard.
I have been around the world a few times. Everywhere I go, I try to get to the beach. I am a connoisseur of beaches. Rhode Island, Jamaica, Israel and the Mediterranean, Myrtle Beach, Virginia Beach, Florida and a number of others are just a few of the places I’ve gone to. Newport, Rhode Island is my first love in beaches, but Jamaica is drawing a close second. I’ve been to Jamaica twice, first time was in Kingston, the Blue Mountains (wow, is that coffee good), and Ocho Rios. The second was in Montego Bay. Next year I’m going back, but now I’m going to Negril.