Why are Americans So Anti-Vacation?
Americans work hard. So hard, in fact, that fewer and fewer people in the American workforce are inclined to take a vacation.
Take the Volk family, for example. For the past five years, Briana and her husband Andrew have accomplished a lot. Not only have they opened a successful cocktail bar in Portland, ME, but Briana has also given birth to a child and launched her own marketing firm. Yet despite all of this success, the two hadn't found the time to take a vacation -- a hard-earned one, at that.
“We’re good at getting into the trap of working all the time. So stepping away from that felt a little selfish. We both felt we always needed to be working,” Volk said in an interview with the Boston Globe.
And even when the Volks finally managed to get away to Palm Springs in February...