Travel, Leisure, and Just Plain Exhausting Work – Pagosa Every day Publish Information Occasions & Video for Pagosa Springs Colorado

Some readers may be followers of Travel & Leisure journal… presumably as a result of they hope to journey sometime, or to have leisure.

I suppose, realistically, it’s important to have leisure, with a view to journey. Unless it’s, like, a enterprise journey.  So journey and leisure often go collectively.

Not all of us see journey or leisure as a chance.  Especially, not journey to different nations.

Speaking for myself, I haven’t had a passport for fairly just a few years. More than 30 years, in truth. When I need to go someplace unique, I drive right down to the Sky Ute Casino in Ignacio.

Or else, I learn Travel & Leisure journal. It’s nearly like being there. That’s what I used to be doing final weekend once I got here throughout an article by reporter Michael Cappetta, a journey author with over 10 years of expertise in journalism and tv information.

I may have been a journey author myself, besides I didn’t have a passport.

Mr. Cappetta’s October 17 article was titled: “These Are the Most Powerful Passports in the World Right Now — and Why the U.S. Just Dropped in Ranking.”

Who knew… that some passports had been extra highly effective than others? Probably solely journey writers who’re making an attempt to journey to nations that not grant visa-free entry to individuals holding U.S. passports. If you maintain “the right passport” you don’t have to use for a visa in plenty of nations, and the U.S. passport is not “the right passport” for those who’re touring to, for instance, Brazil or China.

As lately as 2014, the U.S. passport ranked No. 1 on this planet for the variety of nations we may go waltzing into while not having to acquire a visa. Our fall has been swift. We’re now ranked twelfth, tied with Malaysia.

Malaysia! The richest nation on this planet… tied with Malaysia!

On the flip facet of the passport wars, China is now rewarding every kind of nationwide passports with visa-free entry. But not the U.S. passports. You may nearly get the impression that China is thumbing their nostril at us.

Does this actually matter? Not to me, personally. But perhaps it’s a symptom of a extra normal decline in respect for the U.S.  Fewer nations that need our vacationer {dollars}?

Not that I may present any vacationer {dollars} myself.  I misplaced all of them throughout my final journey to Sky Ute Casino.

Plus, I don’t have a passport. As talked about.

I may get one if I wished.  Pretty a lot anybody can get one.

Fact is, I don’t like journey, and I don’t like leisure. Except in {a magazine}. Leisure has at all times appeared like a waste of time.

What I like is difficult work. Long hours and laborious work.

Apparently, I’m not alone in that desire. Forbes journal — the journal I’m often studying once I can’t discover my copy of Travel & Leisure — lately posted an article about “9-9-6”. It’s a preferred new work schedule.

9-9-6 Work Schedule Isn’t Chatter. Here’s Where It’s Happening Most

Bryan Robinson, writer of “Chained to the Desk in a Hybrid World” wrote in regards to the 9-9-6 work schedule, which is reportedly widespread in China. Employees are anticipated to work from 9am till 9pm, six days per week. That’s like, 72 hours per week.

U.S. companies are starting to leap on the identical band wagon. (Trying to maintain up with the Chinese?)  This formidable schedule is outwardly standard with tech start-ups in California. But sadly, what occurs in California doesn’t at all times keep in California.

Mr. Robinson wrote:

With the 9-9-6 work schedule gaining recognition, discovering the wholesome stability will proceed to be an issue in 2025 until employers make vital adjustments with their office practices, additional time calls for and inefficient conferences.

What defenders of the 40-hour work week, like Mr. Robinson, fail to grasp about America in 2025 is that many people — who really feel like leisure is a waste of time, and who don’t have passports — don’t have anything higher to do with our time, aside from work, work, work. Especially, now that watching the information is so damned miserable. I used to calm down with a beer and watch the information, however I can’t abdomen it today. (“It” being the information, not the beer.)

I’d somewhat be working 9-9-6 than hear in regards to the newest political disasters.

Now that I give it some thought, perhaps I ought to apply for a passport, earlier than it turns into completely nugatory. Surely there’ll at all times be someplace that may settle for Americans…