I'm self employed free lance and do work as it comes up. I work pretty much non stop but there are down periods during which the work isn't on and I booked a holiday for one of those down periods.
The work is the kind of thing that you get a call to do with 2/3 hours notice so you need to be available or agency will go to someone else. There's no way of knowing in advance when the work will come in.
I've booked a holiday for next week and it turns out that because of a development in the area that next week could be pretty busy. If I go on holiday I lose out on the work if it comes in and equally importantly the agency will go to someone else who they may use again instead of me. I'm the default person at the moment but there's no loyalty in business, that could change.
On the other hand the prediction could be wrong and I cancel a holiday and nothing comes in.
So as not to drip feed each job is worth £1.5-2 k and because of this recent development there could be 3/4 next week. Or there could be none.
My DH says to go. He says I can't always be available.
It's not with him. It's with three college pals and they'll be upset I'm not going but it won't affect their holiday.