The partnership also maintains vacation resorts just for employees.
It is a place where some of the land's wealthiest white families maintain vacation homes comparable to those of Martha's Vineyard or the French Riviera; where predominantly white vacationers in this Southern Hemisphere summer seem to compete for the newest German or Japanese S.U.V.'s towing the smartest powerboat.
A lifelong beach lover, Lisa de Kooning maintained a vacation home in Florida for several years, and in 2008 she bought a hilltop residence in the Estate Enighed section of Cruz Bay on St. John.
Steve Grooms, author of "Maintaining a Vacation Home: A Practical Guide to Your Seasonal Home" (Creative Publishing), agrees.
Although he has been known to work every day, he maintains a vacation house in Ocean Reef, Fla., south of Miami, where he golfs and fishes.
But does someone who made $150,000 a year, and didn't stint on the benefits of that income, really want to continue maintaining a vacation home, or buying a new car every other year, or skiing in the Alps or rafting in the Grand Canyon?
Sun employees do have the option to take the time unpaid, and many may be tempted to do so in order to maintain their vacation schedules.
Tidy fortunes will be made by entrepreneurs running yacht basins, outfits that clean and maintain the vacation homes of the wealthy and even house-sitting, au pair and pet-care services.
3. Add up all the costs for buying and maintaining the vacation home.
While routine cleaning is usual with any house guest, if you have hired a house sitter to live in and maintain a vacation home and they have to deep clean or stock the kitchen regularly for guests, then they should be paid an hourly wage for that time.
Did that or does that make either leader less suited to office than the second President Bush, who seemingly kept his midlife resolve never to touch booze again, worked out religiously, maintained an early bedtime and vacationed like clockwork at his ranch?
