why would it be late?
I can practically enter any type of job field when I graduate from the univ.
why would it be late?
I can practically enter any type of job field when I graduate from the univ.
SoulAssassin
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Exactly, I've been traveling pretty much every week for work for about a year and a half now. It's starting to reach that point. Any time I can spend at home these days is priceless. It's at the point now that I don't want to go anywhere else on the weekends. We had a long weekend (4 days, 3 nights) planned in Myrtle Beach a month or so ago and actually left a day early because I just wanted to get home and relax on the couch.
MetalMat
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Its ok sometimes. I cover Louisiana, East Texas, and Houston for my job from Dallas. I fly twice a month, and usually just drive when I am covering East Texas or North LA for the week. Its great being out of the office a few days a week, but sometimes I really just want to spend more nights at home. Flying to NOLA for a few days of work is always a good time.
GTaudiophile
Lifer
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Depends on where.
Domestically: Places like Florida in the Fall or California in the Spring aren't bad. But I don't care for certain places in Michigan or New York in the dead of winter.
Internationally: Who can beat at least two week a year on business in Germany, all expenses paid?
Domestically: Places like Florida in the Fall or California in the Spring aren't bad. But I don't care for certain places in Michigan or New York in the dead of winter.
Internationally: Who can beat at least two week a year on business in Germany, all expenses paid?
Depends, traveling a few time a year all around is good, traveling every week is not, survey is too broad.
:thumbsup:
That being said, I'm going to Puerto Rico in October and I'll be bringing my wife along. We'll get to stay 10 days at the El San Juan resort for $1000 out of our pocket. My travel is paid by the company. Her travel is paid by my FF miles.
Happy 15 year wedding anniversary to us!
hanoverphist
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i rarely travel outside of arizona, but i do week long work trips to places like nogales, lake havasu and the sort. i hate it usually, i am a single parent of 3 great kids that my whole existence revolves around... when im not home, i get bored. my normally outgoing personality shuts down and i sit in the hotel and play video games all night. i also talk to my kids on yahoo and the phone. work 12 or so hours anyway, not much else i want to do after that. luckily since ive become a single dad my boss has been making sure to keep the out of town trips to a minimum for me. although i did an emergency trip to havasu a week or so ago on a sunday and took my kids with me... they had a blast, 2 hours of work and we went to the beach and swam. ice cream on the london bridge and hung out all day. good times, good times.
I travel frequently for my own company. I have two business partners that are great friends of mine, and we have a team of now ~15 or so consultants that travel regularly as well. Usually a small handful of us travel together, so in some ways it's like a vacation with friends. We also enjoy our work, so there can be a lot of fun in that as well.
Traveling gets very, very old. I spent literally every week of 2005 traveling, most of 2006 and so far about two months or 2007. Before that I was on the road probably 30% of the year. On the plus side, I've seen a great portion of the US and get to stay in nice hotels (with views like this), eat nice meals, etc. The negative side is that I had to learn how to survive on <= 4 hours of sleep, floating large sums of money for expenses, 80+ hour work weeks and a relationship that gets strained from my absence. I've literally been so tired and stressed out that I started to hallucinate. Once you've had a few dozen flight cancellations, lost baggage, reroutes, and sleepless nights in an airport the allure of travel wanes. I have to catch a red-eye flight tonight at 10:25PM and arrive home ~8AM only to find myself in meetings a few hours later. There's nothing fun about that.
All that being said, some of the best times in my life have been with my friends while traveling for business. I have more of those positive memories than I do the bad ones, or at least the positive ones are easier to remember. I wouldn't trade that for the world, nor would I trade all the experiences I've had, the things I've seen and the people I have met. It's a great learning experience.
Traveling gets very, very old. I spent literally every week of 2005 traveling, most of 2006 and so far about two months or 2007. Before that I was on the road probably 30% of the year. On the plus side, I've seen a great portion of the US and get to stay in nice hotels (with views like this), eat nice meals, etc. The negative side is that I had to learn how to survive on <= 4 hours of sleep, floating large sums of money for expenses, 80+ hour work weeks and a relationship that gets strained from my absence. I've literally been so tired and stressed out that I started to hallucinate. Once you've had a few dozen flight cancellations, lost baggage, reroutes, and sleepless nights in an airport the allure of travel wanes. I have to catch a red-eye flight tonight at 10:25PM and arrive home ~8AM only to find myself in meetings a few hours later. There's nothing fun about that.
All that being said, some of the best times in my life have been with my friends while traveling for business. I have more of those positive memories than I do the bad ones, or at least the positive ones are easier to remember. I wouldn't trade that for the world, nor would I trade all the experiences I've had, the things I've seen and the people I have met. It's a great learning experience.
I'm going to tell you in a couple of weeks. I'm starting a new job in the near future. My normal commute is going to be Brussels -> Madrid on monday and returning Madrid -> Brussels on friday. I'm also going to be on deployment in the middle-east for 4-6 weeks at a time
it's ok.
sometimes it's cool, but then again, sometimes you'll be living out of a hotel for a month in the middle of nowhere, working 50+ hours a week with some crap rental car, away from your friends and family.
sometimes it's cool, but then again, sometimes you'll be living out of a hotel for a month in the middle of nowhere, working 50+ hours a week with some crap rental car, away from your friends and family.
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