<story><title>Elon Musk needs a vacation</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2015/09/29/elon-musk-needs-a-vacation/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sharkweek</author><text>Friend worked at one of the US&amp;#x27;s biggest law firms clerking for a few years. He was there during one of the largest patent suits of all time, so they were billing an insane amount of hours (he was easily putting in 100 hour weeks the six months leading up to the trial).&lt;p&gt;Anyways, case settles weeks before trial was supposed to start. Law firm gives everyone in the office a free two weeks off to unwind from such a massive stretch of work.&lt;p&gt;He enjoyed the time off, with only one minor detour to the office for like 2-3 hours one day during the time off and almost everyone above him was there working. He asked his boss what was up and the guy basically said he had nothing better to do so he just decided to work during that stretch.&lt;p&gt;I love working hard, I love being productive, but I really hope I&amp;#x27;m never at a point in my life where I can&amp;#x27;t take two weeks off to enjoy doing something other than work. Of course I&amp;#x27;m not inventing electric cars and space rockets, so there&amp;#x27;s that.</text></comment>
<story><title>Elon Musk needs a vacation</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2015/09/29/elon-musk-needs-a-vacation/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sandworm101</author><text>When work is a choice, it isn&amp;#x27;t really work.  This guy can take a vacation whenever he likes.  He doesn&amp;#x27;t have a boss that will fire him.  He doesn&amp;#x27;t have to worry about making rent each month.  His concept of &amp;quot;taking a vacation&amp;quot; is very different then mine, yours, or most anyone else who isn&amp;#x27;t a billionaire.&lt;p&gt;If Elon Musk is stressed, he has the option of separating himself from that stress.  He works because he wants to work.  Employees suffer stress from which they cannot separate themselves without, in short order, creating new stresses.  Elon will not be homeless next month if he stops going to work today.  A psychologist might say that his stress is therefore a product of his ego, his daily choices, rather than of his environment.  It is internal to his personality.  That&amp;#x27;s probably why he finds it so hard to separate.</text></comment>