Every travel agency owner knows the rhythm even if nobody’s ever put a name to it: a stretch where bookings and commission checks feel endless, followed by a stretch where the phone barely rings and the bank account reflects it. Feast, then famine, on a cycle that doesn’t always follow the calendar the way you’d expect. The mistake isn’t having this rhythm — it’s building a budget and a lifestyle that assumes the feast part is the normal part. Why a standard household budget
