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any corporate road warriors here?

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skim milk

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Every Sunday night, millions of people will be getting ready to hit the bed, calm down their screaming children, barking dogs. Their spouses will hug them and ask them about the upcoming week. The stars will wheel forth from their daytime hiding places; and one of those lights, slightly brighter than the rest, will be my wingtip passing over.

On my way off to the airport like every Sunday night..
No way can I see myself doing this after mid 30s, though. At least I have a shit ton of frequent flier miles and free hotel nights racked up.
 
It's kinda fun for a few years. The first year is the time it'll take for you to game the system, the next few is when you'll enjoy it, then you start to hate it. Then, you get out of it.

Enjoy it and get EVERYTHING out of it that you can.
 
SSSnail said:
It's kinda fun for a few years. The first year is the time it'll take for you to game the system, the next few is when you'll enjoy it, then you start to hate it. Then, you get out of it.

Enjoy it and get EVERYTHING out of it that you can.
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Can you expand on what you mean? I try to rack up as miles, hotel promotions, credit card cash back as possible. Planning some free trips in the near future
Any other ideas?
 
Did that for a while, wasn't bad. I enjoyed it, and would continue, but got back into a desk job. One period, I had to do 4 weekly trip back to back. That was excessive, but was an exception rather than the norm. Otherwise I traveled for 2-3 days once or twice a month, and it was excellent for breaking the routine.
 
skim milk said:
Can you expand on what you mean? I try to rack up as miles, hotel promotions, credit card cash back as possible. Planning some free trips in the near future
Any other ideas?
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i think he's saying bang prostitutes in as many cities as you can.
 
While my "road warrior" days were considerably different than what most of youse desk jockeys put in, I still spent several years living out of a suitcase, getting bounced from job to job. Sometimes only a week or two in one place, other times, every week for a few months. SOME weeks, I worked 7 days per week...so no opportunity to go home to see the wife & kids.

Some jobs, I had to fly in, get a rental car (or truck when possible) to haul me and my tools around, but other times, I either drove my own truck, or took a company truck.

I LOVE traveling for vacations...I HATE traveling for work.
 
I used to do corporate traveling (about every other week) a few years back. I loved it. Free meals (no limit), airline milage, hotel points, free rental car and points, new places to see (NY City, Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas just to name a few).

I would do it again if ask. I can understand that married folks are not into it.
 
Svnla said:
I used to do corporate traveling (about every other week) a few years back. I loved it. Free meals (no limit), airline milage, hotel points, free rental car and points, new places to see (NY City, Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas just to name a few).

I would do it again if ask. I can understand that married folks are not into it.
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Yeah that was my thought. I got to go all over (greece, dubai, all over the US, etc...) Usually I made alot of money due to overtime, hazard pay, etc... while on travel. I made enough for a down payment on my house on an extended trip (8 weeks).

Extra pay + free food + free airline miles + free sight seeing FTW
 
BoomerD said:
While my "road warrior" days were considerably different than what most of youse desk jockeys put in, I still spent several years living out of a suitcase, getting bounced from job to job. Sometimes only a week or two in one place, other times, every week for a few months. SOME weeks, I worked 7 days per week...so no opportunity to go home to see the wife & kids.

Some jobs, I had to fly in, get a rental car (or truck when possible) to haul me and my tools around, but other times, I either drove my own truck, or took a company truck.

I LOVE traveling for vacations...I HATE traveling for work.
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That sums it up right there.
People would be all "jealous" of me... "Oh you get to go to LA again for work?" "Hawaii this time?!?"

IT'S WORK PEOPLE. Not play. It blows.
 
Managed 4 years of constant travel (Hilton Diamond, Delta Platinum, Hertz PC, etc.) before I finally demanded a local project. I was a points whore among points whores (credit cards that helped with status/upgrades/whatever, mileage runs, booking at special rates for more points, etc.) but the grind seriously wore me out. While I miss the travel perks now, I definitely do not miss the frantic lifestyle of trying to fit in activities/errands in the limited 2-3 day window you have offsite. Throw in a relationship, and you want to shoot yourself trying to juggle spending time with friends, the SO, family, or just by yourself (detox). That being said, enjoy it while you can, it's definitely not a way of life most people can maintain for lengthy periods of time.
 
I pretty much fly to San Francisco or Seattle every week for an overnight. Sometimes it is for a 2 hour meeting. I enjoy it usually since the restaurants in SF are totally awesome.
 
I travel maybe once a month. I enjoy it, for the most part. However, it's always the same destination...which is starting to get old.

Definitely wouldn't like it so much if I had a family or something.
 
I can barely tolerate traveling for pleasure, if forced to do it often for work I'd change jobs. Life is too short to spend it in airports.
 
I traveled for 14 nights in January for work. It sucked, and mainly these are $h*t whole manufacturing plants. Therefore I plan on quiting my job in a couple months, right before my next installation gig. Some people may like work travel.. I do not.
 
spacelord said:
I traveled for 14 nights in January for work. It sucked, and mainly these are $h*t whole manufacturing plants. Therefore I plan on quiting my job in a couple months, right before my next installation gig. Some people may like work travel.. I do not.
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can I have your job when you're done with it?
 
Depends where you have to go. One December, for example, I spent a week in Houston and a week in Connecticut. That sucked because the places weren't that exciting and it was in December, which is a busy time in everyone's lives. At this job, I had 2 trips a year which were a minimum of 10 days and up to 14 days and you would generally work 12 to 14 hour days. Those sucked too but there were some cool perks. I moved to a different position and now I have no travel requirements unless I want to go to a conference.

Now, the 3 week trips I took to Europe, Asia, and South America WERE fun and I'd still do those if I could.
 
I wish I travelled a little for work now. I use to and I enjoyed it at the time.

I love my family, friends and all that, but I also enjoy the solitude of traveling for work sometimes.

MotionMan
 
I do not mind traveling so much for a few days here and there.. especially if it's in a cool city or town. I like to get out and check the area out.. bars, restaurants, parks.. but I'm usually working so much I'm usually glad to grab something to eat before the restaurants close then fall asleep to do it all again the next morning.
 
I've spent 33 days on the road do far this year. I expect to spend another 30-40 days on the road over the next three months. It gets old.
 
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