Not to sound like Andy Rooney, but...did you ever notice in the corporate world, there's an inverse correlation between the size of a person's office and the amount of time they actually spend there. For days on end, the CEO's massive office, complete with couches, fancy chairs, coffee tables, designer lighting, wide-screen plasma TV and everything else, remains untouched like a museum exhibit. Meanwhile, the fluorescent lights hanging over the cubicles three floors below, burn all night long. Here's where you find folks working their tails off 'round the clock, fueled by strong coffee, fast food, salty snacks, and super-caffeinated sugar drinks.
That's not to say CEO's are lazy. Often they work harder than anybody. But they also tend to travel the most, attending meetings and conferences all over the world. And their business lunches are longer...places that take reservations, tend to be places where the suits take their time, only picking up the check after the deal's been closed.
The men and women in those big posh offices also get the most vacation time too. And their late night and weekend work usually takes place from the comfort of a sweet home office set-up at their main residence, or one of their vacation homes.
This principle also applies on the home front. Those estate houses, way up on the hill? Likely, and older, wealthy couple lives there. Of course, they also own an apartment in the city, as well as vacation home in the mountains and a condo at the beach. Their kids are grown and out of "the house," and now they travel the world every chance they get.
Meanwhile, across town there's a small, two family house...with five families living there. No one has ever taken a vacation and there's 17 kids and counting...
