Traveling projects make it hard to plan vacations in advance. Some projects are all over the place travel-wise. You guys have any strategies or tips around this?

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Book it. Tell team. Hold your ground.

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Yeah just book it. No ones going to die if you go away for 2 weeks.

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Listen to BCG1 - book it in advance and let them know not to count on you that week. Communicate expectations

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BCG1 nailed it. Your vacations are more important than your work. The sooner you embrace that fact, the better your life and relationships will be.

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Feel the same way. Basically a lot of last minute flights for me

I booked my vacations between projects. Well at least my long ones

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