Working on Vacation

Mr Trump,
that doing what love to do is not work anymore and to stop it well,
even for vacation, that world is moving very fast are are people like you Mr Trump walking about 10steps before the times we live in..
That*s why I would be happy to work in your team Mr. Trump,
you know, about the regio*s exposed to disasters made by man as war or climat exchange effects(tornado*s e.s.o) is GREAT!! when something was distroyed and we may rebuild may we choose to do it with before model as is prouved is functional but small percentage? or may we build NEW Foundation, as is used to be and long term warranted, that come from yield and create as the Father create continuous too so what vacation*s mean exactly? :)
Thank you for the time and attention
Daniela

Mr. Trump, I'm currently a college student, and I have one question for you. What's a vacation?

Mr. Trump:
Very relevant discussion.
Today everybody connected through multiple links - virtual, emotional, wired. If some one claims that he/she spends vacation completely without any kind of connections, they lie. For one reason or other, you are bound to connected.
For me I am when I am in vacation or in work, whole of communications and business based on one way or other the emails, cells, skype, virtual office software and others. I enjoy when I am connected. If I am not working, I get sick. Important thing is how you can manage your time. Acting on context is wise.

Rajesh Shakya
http://www.rajeshshakya.com
Helping Technopreneurs to excel and lead their life!

I've got an idea. How about a treadbill. You know there is a treadmill, how about a treadbill. Maybe we could make a gold one or something.

Just a thought.

July 1, 2007



Dear Mr. Trump:

How do you keep up with such brilliant people? I mean I get lost just thinking about all this valuable information.

You've obviously got some extremely bright, talented, hard working people in your Organization.

What can I do to ensure my Organization runs the same way? Not to mention the fact they are all so beautiful and handsome including yourself of course. As a matter of fact your the smartest and best looking one of all!

Also I see you do seminars with Mr. Anthony Robbins. He is so brilliant and talented. I would really like to meet you someday. They say with God all things are possible. Do you believe that?

lovely one of your biggest fans

Yes, working during vacation is a nice thing! We will not lost information and we can see the progress. I think people need to make priorities. And the most important, our partner is supportive to us if we enjoy working during vacation. Many people made mistakes. They thought working during vacation make more stressful. The fact is, the level of work stress is more lower on vacation than office hours. And the wind of the sea more help to open our mind about job progress.

Help my feet are sore. I think I have that restless feet thing.

Got any shoes that might fit me?

ha ha

Mr. Trump, I'm a college student, and I have just one question for you. What is a vacation?

Donald I can understand keeping in touch with what's going on in the office but I AM DEFINITELY ONE for PLAYING, RELAXING and having FUN on vacation. You know some ALONE time.

Jerilynn

What perfect timing. I just got back from a 9-day vacation trip from Oregon and San Francisco. I did manage to periodically check email updates via my Blackberry and brought my laptop to do work (when wife was asleep in the morning). Great post.

Contrary to popular belief that the modern pen works better perhaps you should get used of using a quil pen like our forefathers did.

N

Dear Mr. Trump,

Not all companies encourage working vacations. Some companies just do NOT want to see you when you are not supposed to be around, and you will pay a price for meddling into the affairs of your co-workers, just because you thought it was the contientious thing to do and that you were being Pro-Active! (We need more Pro-Active Policies that are Positive and Beneficial, instead of a REaction-ary Mentality. But I will save that one for a later day and time.)

It sounds like your companies are balanced between letting an employee work all they want basically for free, and just being interested in what is going on at the job while they are gone. Your employees should consider themselves 'lucky'!

I have been on both sides of the fence on this issue, and please let me tell you Mr. Trump - it is NOT a comfortable feeling for those few employees on "the outside, looking in!"

Sincerely Yours,

J. Glen Dale

I guess for a majority of people that carry laptops and cellphones on vacations, *work* is play.

Leaving a laptop behind is hard, especially when high speed 3G networks are available just about anywhere.

/Andrew

Mr Trump,

it*s appear as many people are in vacation now..hmm, you know, as in the book The Art of the Deal with the number of calls you make and receive daily, being a social magician and maintain the right balance in life you know at best Mr. Trump, but just asking the art of delegating tasks , you know, to build a team which will permitt to aech one to go in vacation as recharge the battery*s and spend quality time with familly, each one have his turn without streess about unexpected, or in case with that technology well if the phone call from office to know that is really really urgent otherwise they did*t call... like in war, that special brothership that one may winn a good position by having the back covered, is synchronicity of thoughts and sharp attention that one is able to hear..the grass growing to say it...if that dedication from war may be translated into life generally, name it bussiness or familly, to feel secure protected and the spirit dedicated to thissame values...well, even God the 7-th day make quality time for the spirit, why not the Planet in 2007
may change the values to know that is possible by lovng each one what they do and respecting the Thy principle of neighbors as in Bible is wrotten, know thyself to build a familly too, well a different foundation for daily life where stress and burning out will dissapear, that common values aspirations and somehow in life lacking periods, have consequences affecting our most dears..
Mr. Trump, I wish you a very special vacation, a truly one, look, you desearve it but curious as you will enjoy it a bit egoist: just familly, exclusivity, no ring :)
Impressive, and please excuse if somehow my free talk is somehow innoportune? that is Mr. Trump, a short vacation time,
I really need it..talk too much.
Have a great day
Daniela

Dear Mr. Trump,

Your Vacation blog is on target! Vacation is great for re-vitalizing ones self motivation....but a person needs to be responsibly conscious of his position in the Company he or she works. I always have my cell phone with me while on Vacation and check my messages twice a day.

Sometimes knowing that someone is in need of your knowledge back at the office...and you giving them a call (that may only be a few minutes!) to clear the air about an issue or process can go a long way to increase the operational effectiveness of a persons office staff. The pressure off them is pressure off you and this also allows the company to move foward while your away and may very well increase throughput.

I think keeping abreast of office operations while on vacation is smart and can only benefit your family, career and the company that you work.

Regards,
Vincent Marzigliano

Vacation is an ejoyable part of work, when you go on vacation you enjoy your time off. At the same time you reflect upon the blessings attained through your job, which includes the vacation it self. keeping in touch with the source of your blessings will surely keep you in the right track for more good times.

Robinson

Daniella,

If you do what you love there is no need for "rest" on "the seventh day" as work is your play!

Everyone,

One huge thing that everyone seems not to be taking about here is not only all the benefits pointed in the blog and the following comments but also this. If you work SOME on any vacation ---- that vacation (or most of it) can then be used as a business expense!

Even if you are employed, go on an interview, talk to a real estate broker to look at potential investments, or if you own the company have an business associate, employee, or business partner meet you there. These are all legitimate reasons to expense the trip, there by reducing your taxable income!

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I chuckle at the thought that some might be surprised to learn how so many have working vacations. Personally, I don't know of any other kind of vacation, but my reasoning is somewhat different from the reasons spelled out by Mr. Trump. My reasons where not to look good in the eyes of my employer, because I was the employer, but to look better at tax time.

As a business owner, when I vacationed, I brought just enough work into my vacation to be able to properly write off the cost of the trip. Many small business people do not realize that they can do this by doing something as simple as conducting their annual business meeting with themselves while on vacation. I would encourage all small business owners to hone up on their tax laws to know how to take advantage of such benefits. Believe me, you'll smile even wider, sitting in the sun, knowing it's a tax write off.

I must add this final note, if you conduct work on your vacation, for whatever reason, be sure the family members who vacation with you, all realize this before you take the trip. If you take this step of open communication up front, it will avoid feelings of resentment on the part of your family during the vacation time.

James C. Tanner
www.silent-wonder.com
www.whats-he-like.com
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James C. Tanner is a retired entrepreneur, a former special Investigator, and a published writer with an average monthly readership of 12.5 million people.

O.K. Mr. Donald Trump, I understand that you are running a mega operation, yet even God rested on the Seventh Day.

Some people take that literal, and some are extreme about not doing anything, but loaf around on that Seventh Day.

Liking you very much, really like you and honestly, want you around for a long time. Yes, it's true, and I also know that you sleep about 4 hours at night.

I mean, you are wearing yourself out and it shows. You've gained weight. I liked you when you where slim. Not that you are not a good looking man, you are, yet being slim complemented you (Now that 's what New Jersey (ers) call "Brown Nosing").

Seriously, don't run yourself to the ground.

Years ago I read a book, I don't recall the name, but if I recall correctly it was written by the first NYC marathon winner. Well, that's not important right now, what is important is that his advice for training as a new runner was to run about four or five days and rest about two days.

Also, you have a family, and I understand about quality time, yet quantity added to quality is what will comforts our love ones when we are gone. The fact that we spent time with them.

So, Mr. Trump, I recommend you hire two addition individuals, add them to the head of every department and run each department (or should I say, each vital division) like the Federal Government. You are the President like the president of the United States, have a Congress and a Senate within your operation.

Some of your lead personnel will not be to happy, because everyone want to be the "Boss." Also, people like to boast that they have your ear. I know, because I was hired as the office manager for Comptroller Carl McCall's (Now that's a good person to hire: Comptroller Carl McCall) McCall 98, NYC campaign committee, when he was running for re-election. Overheard some of his high level staff boasting to others about that, and even heard one claiming to another that Comptroller really regarded him "as a personal friend."

So don't be surprised that some in your most inner circle are such, that invade you time and space, not for the importance of business, but for the importance of their own altered ego.

What I am trying to tell you is that should you run your operation like the Federal Government (Three branches) that would leave you time to rest, vacation and spent time with your family; in a relaxed mental state.

One last thing: What about when you are gone?

Sincerely,

Gynnie Ann De Jesus
gadnynj@yahoo.com

Mr. Trump,

When I am at work, I work.

When I am on vacation, I work for me, not my employer.

Dear Mr. Trump,

I believe that if people do care about their works, they will keep their passion regardless where they are.

Yours sincerely,
Grace Tung

You have to have a certain amount of respect for a man who makes billions of dollars. But, here we have the question of who owns who? To me Mr. Trump is owned by his money and not the other way around. A sad state. Business is such a small part of the big picture. The Earth is a beautiful place. When we get burried in work and lose contact with life, what is point. When you can never leave for a week or 2 or 3 weeks and gaze at the stars, watch the rain, spend time with loved ones and not be attached the business, you have willingly become a slave to that business, not a free man. I will never have Trumps money. Trump will never know the wonders I see. It's a matter of choice. Money is not my God. And, it never will be.

Working on vacation? Need to call back to work place to check the progress during vacation?

For me, it means:
- the business is human dependent, not system dependent. When that person is gone, business is affected.

- before going on vacation, that person did not delegate the responsibility properly or no one to delegate to.

- I believe if someone can bring work into vacation/family time, that person will do the opposite too.

Nowadays, multi-tasking seems unavoidable. Boundaries for lots of things are diminishing. You choose the balance point yourself, no right or wrong.

Tien

Compliments from Taiwan to Mr. Trump,

Thanks for the PERFECT opinion which finally confirms my attitude toward working, because I've been teased being a workaholic, since I always work on my vacations.

I'm a samll business owner, and like to travel abroad almost 3 or 4 months every year. For me, traveling is a sort of learning, sometimes, I take few short-term classes, and like being a professional student in my life time, taking time to explore the world. But in the same time, I want to run my successful business. So the only solution is working on my vacations. Wherever I travel, I go with my laptop. Unless I get online,checking into my office, make sure my staffs doing good jobs, make sure every thing is okay, I cannot have a good day. I never care about how people judge me, I'm so confident that I've lived life to the fullest, coz I never waste my time. Cheers!

Thanks so much for sharing your successful thoughts with us.

Sincerely,
Sally Tsou
http://SallyTsou.com

Mr. Donald Trump,

I think that is logical that people wants to know what is happening at the office, because people dedicates a lot of time to keep things going on at the office and, at least me, I dont want to see all my work to be threated by other's people mistakes.

I am just a high school student, I have a job on a corporation, and I always want to know what is going on, not only on my area, but in the whole corporation. In vacations I always have my cell phone, my laptop and my handheld device near, checking how are things going at the office, otherwise I wouldn't feel comfortable knowing that I am having a great time while things may be going bad on the office. Every responsible person logically should have the doubt of how things are going on while they are not there, because at the end they dedicate a lot of time of their lives on that company, they should want to know what is happening. Just as a mom that leaves her children somwhere else, she would like to know that everything is all right while they are not there.

At last, ¿why taking vacations to feel relaxed and unstressed if when you return to job you will feel stressed and unrelaxed trying to fix things that happened at your absence?

I found this article very interesting and made me think about my rol on a company and of me as a business man

Thank you, have a nice 4th of July!

Manuel Berazaluce
Monterrey, Mexico

Happy Independence Day all,

One hopes that even The Donald takes July 4th off to reflect on our founding father's sacrifices, tenacity and acheivements. Great men who did great things and who would be greatly dissappointed in the way our current administration permits certain recently convicted felons to get off "scoot" free.

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Hello All,
I'm a single parent and never get a minute off let alone a day or even a vacation. I dropped my child off at sleep away camp and I am going nutz not being able to be in charge of what happens. I'm that way at work also, I tend to get too many projects, too many business requests and too much grief. But I wouldn't want it any other way, I'd rather be in the mix all the time than on the side lines with no involvement. The world rolls with or with out me so I choose WITH, all the way.

Take Care,
Ruth

The safest way to check work email, voicemail, etc., is to do it in a way that the wife/significant other doesn't know about it. That can be dangerous territories.
My motto is...Work hard and Play hard. Sometimes it gets intermingled...just have to know when to say when. People tend to work harder at the things they love to do; i.e. work that is fun...especially if your making money at the same time.
Real Estate is an industry that one can become easily passionate about because the product is tangible and sometime beautiful. This industry has made millions of millionaire and I don't see that trend ending anytime soon. Beside, real estate has been around for thousands of years and it will be around for thousands more.

Working on vacation shouldn't be a hassle to all of us. Only those - who are extremely lazy and don't wish to work - are the ones who only want to spend money having fun but refuse to make money to supply back their savings...

At some point, I still keep in touch of my work even when I am outside... Because if I don't take care of my career, who is going to take care of my career for me?

Charles
http://www.charleslau.com

Donald,

Being on an extended vacation sounds great to most people, I’ve had my fill. This brings the realization that I have never one time explained my reason for existence on this beautiful planet. Philanthropy is the only good reason to acquire massive wealth, and the reason God allows someone to happily prosper, especially where financial abundance is concerned. As MLK said," We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools." This includes people in desert regions with little to no means for for, shelter, clothing, much less an education. It is the responsibility of the prosperous to help the less fortunate, lest we condemn ourselves to vanity and death.



I couldn’t for the life of me figure out why my emails and ideas were getting brushed to the side, and it finally hit me that saving the world wasn’t spoken of enough or in the context needed to make heads roll. Perhaps, sometimes certain people need to have an epiphany, and then…. POW!



I wondered why would you pass on a project that costs you nothing up-front that will fund many other projects, with virtually no risk to the Trump Organization, remember my business proposal? Meanwhile, you get massive "exposure" you tout in your books, but for real heart felt reasons, such as funding and educational program for poor, under privileged and/or handicapped. I have much love for you Donald and ahhh...checkmate. I hope you have a sense of humor cuz' otherwise I offer a couse on lightening up, for all occasions. :-) ZAP!



Oh yeah…big guy, I tried your cereal and it was only a chocolate cluster. Have you ever seen the movie Caddy Shack? Yeah well, think of me as Bill Murray in the swimming pool and life will just glide in the right direction. Listen to your heart and all is a flowing stream of love in the Milky Way. And the Qi Gong is definitely working wonders for me, try it sometime. I have the perfect person to talk to on that matter.



From my heart to yours,



~Chad M. K. Ludwig

If you are lucky enough to live in North America...you are on a vacation!!!

Growing up, Dad took us on several vacations associated with work and though I know this differs a little it meant more time working and time with family. Recently we went to our timeshare on Hilton Head island and I really do believe my mother was tempted to throw Dad's cell phone in the ocean because yes, he called practically every day. And I started to call home about my job possiblities. I just bought a new phone, so I hid mine! When you're a workaholic, you recognize that it is that career that allows you to have a vacation of the sort you are having, or at least that is what it means to me. But how does he respond to my mother who says he deals with the family like we're his employees?

Unfortunately Mr.Trump is perhaps the exception to the rule but lack of real vacations is what breeds dysfunctional people in America; crazy, materialistic, ADDs, ADHDs and this type of people. Europe is way ahead..5 to 8 weeks of paid vacation for most people. I have friends who just take off and relax and have fun. Are European governments and companies crazy to pay people to have fun? No, of course not, just look at their economies. But they know that happy, relaxed employees are also productive and quite functional!
So, keep on going on your American roller-coaster until life is over. Most will never reach a high level of material sucess which they hope will compensate for a shallow and devoid of meaning life but nonetheless they will reach a high level of dissatisfaction, depression and dysfunctionality in their lives. Good luck! I am off to Europe......

Anna

according to a harvard survey -among the top 6% of wage earners in this country 52% work more than 70 hours a week

13 weeks of paid vacation?-whey dont they just taken the whole freakin year off

Recently I read with pleasure and curiosity the book entitled: " We want you to be rich", an excellent work of business, economy and History by Donald Trump and Robert T. Kiyosaki. The book is amazing, with an extrordinary power of faith .I recognize the talent of Mr. Trump in his writing and in his conviction.
The greek philosopher Heraclitus said once: "There is nothing certain or stable except the fact that things change" Other thinkers as: Spinoza, Kant, Heidegger said the same.
The world of the Economy and the business aren't far away of the sentence of Heraclitus. The laws of the business are in constant change. If we are not prepared to change, therefore we'll suffer the consequence. The world where we actually are living is totally different to 30, 50 or 100 years ago. Financial education and willigness of change are valuable attitudes for succeed.
Trump and Kiyosaki show their concern about the shrink of the american middle class. That's a good point to discuss. In History we know that middle class is the heart of the economy of a nation. The arise of The United States as "Super Power", is when the country is experimenting a surprising arise of it's middle class. It's the same situation in The Netherland during the century XVII, and western europe during the '60. History is a surprising mirror where we can look, and take the right path toward the future.
Actually the american society are adopting another kind of values of work, and grow, than 200 years ago. We are adopting another kind of attitudes which aren't leading to the prosperity. The iniciative is being headed by the asian countries. That situation explain the arise of the middle class in India and in China. May be we need to return of our old history books and to learn the success of the american experience during the past.

Dear Mr. Trump,

I love the comment by the member who said, "If you live in North America, you are on vacation."

Reflecting on this past 4th of July and seeing news reports each day of the conditions our military face, it is hard to consider my vacation time my own, It was bought and paid for with the blood, sweat and tears of many who are serving to guarantee my freedom including my "vacation time."

It is not surprising that by far the greatest majority (20% combined) of the Accenture respondents were from the service sector (medical & education). This group of induividuals (of which I am also a part) are very committed "type A" personalities. For the most part we entered these fields because we feel we can make a difference. These are also two of the most stressful occupations (military/police being another) because there is never an end for our services, and many feel as though long vacations are well deserved.

When I was a child growing up, our family took one vacation a year, an overnight trip to Pismo Beach. I looked forward to this all year year long, waiting for mom's stack of ironing atop the hamper to be finished because that was the signal that we were ready to leave for our vacation. Now that I am an adult and am afforded more vacation than most, I never want to take my "vacation" for granted.

Our soldiers in Iraq sleep about 4 hours each night. If you can call it sleep, because they are never out of harms way and must be constantly aware of attacks. If I could, I would happily give my vacation hours to any soldier in Iraq.

Sincerely,
Gladys Deniz

Working on Vacation can extend beyond just the laptop. After spending a winter reviewing Mr Trump's University Website I decided I needed more information before any of his ideas could apply to my Canadian status. So off I went packed my bags and took my son and I on a trip to Canada's busiest playground.

Two fold in purpose my son now sports a very nice resume. For the last month he has been indispensible to his team at work logging 101 hours on one pay and the next 102. All that said he is only 16. We do on average 60 customers per hour, our record holds steady at 89.

That is my son's holiday. We are poor, and while most can visit here and afford some of Canada's most expensive hotels, we work here to enjoy the same.

So does the laptop or cellphone cry sweat equity ? Not really. How many kids have I hired these past few months text messaging their girlfriends or overdue payments while my son and I cover the most absent brain cells. Most have a university education, and as such have no idea what it means to arrive to work on time. Most call in sick on average 2 or 3 times a month. No one can keep up with our pace.

Flatter me with purple passages but after all that I have seen this summer Mr Trump you need to listen to my boy. He has watched your show and thinks he is better than any of the candidates you have installed on your program. He has watched them fight bicker and back stab their way to your office, and he thinks this type of competition is not necessary because most really don't know how to work hard, most have no stamina.

So working on vacation has given my son a very unique resume and outlook on life. The rich kids that work along side can't keep up to his reliability

Hello there Mr Trump... Please tell me that I am the only one that understands what you said about working on vacation and you are just kidding!... I happen to work for a company where working on vacation is a SIN!!! .. Well it depends on who you work for as actually some of the executives almost expect you to work while on vacation but the really good ones insist that you dont!... I happen to have a BOSS that will get on my case if he sends me and email or a page or calls me and I answer him while on vacation.. When I am on vacation, I normally put my out of office reply on telling the person when I will be back and telling him who can assist them if they cannot wait until I return.. That s the real deifiniton of a vacation!.. I know you agreee wtih this as busy as you are and with a wife and a new baby. You must vacation quite often.

Michelle
Atlanta

High energy, enthusiasm, drive, and dedication are important attributes, but, if your employees feel so indispensible, that they must check in while on vacation, is it possible they have control issues? My goal in every job has always been to build it to the point that I am able to be replaced, and things can run smoothly without me. Otherwise, how can I ever be promoted?

If you can combine travel with work, working vacations make awsome sense. I;ve been lucky enough to have a few of those. For the past 15 years, my personal vacations have been 2-3 days, usually over a week end. I have my cell phone, but I am not connected on-line. I find some of my best ideas come to me when I change my pace or my surroundings.