I grew up on a small Wisconsin dairy farm and I don’t recall my parents ever taking a vacation. My dad would sometimes say, “We’ll take a day off when we’re caught up.” But running a farm, like running any small business, means never really being “caught up.”My family, it turns out, was not that unusual. A lot of small-business owners, including portable restroom operators, never seem to get caught up enough to take a vacation. But for the sake of their families and their businesses, maybe they should.Of course, for busy PROs, a summer vacation may be out of











