i'm starting to think that i'm not really cut out for the whole "road warrior" thing.
It's not so much going to conferences and talking, or meeting folks or any of that. It's mostly the travel.
Travel. Sucks.
Getting there is not half the fun. It's not even a 1/100th of fun. In fact, anyone who says "getting there is half the fun" should have their bedroom closet checked for S&M gear. What's worse, travel in the North East corner of these United States requires a nearly never ending set of tolls with associated receipts and traffic jams.
i don't care if my soul would survive a matter transporter, i'd still take it.
All you folks that travel for a living, spending more of your life in airports and traffic than with your family? You're nuts, you're better than i am.
Or insane.
i'm betting on the latter.
dude, travel sucks big time. when i was single and working for sony, i traveled every week for two years straight. i flew out mondays, flew back fridays. sometimes, i flew to multiple locations in the same week. i bought a new car right before i started traveling, after two years, my car had 1,000 miles on it.
that was one of the huge draws for me to leave sony and come to yahoo. no travel required. i'm a cubical unix jockey. yay!
My former employer couldn't figure out that traveling was never, ever worth it for me, because not only did it suck, but even when I wasn't "working", I was still screwed over by them and not compensated for it. Sitting in an airport or hotel room, or hunting for a place to eat while dragging my luggage with me wasn't how I wanted to spend my non-work hours.
It ended with me never traveling for business unless it allowed me some unusual or fun diversion.
I don't know how people travel as part of their jobs. I can barely handle commuting to work.
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Well, I'm planning a vacation where the travel will be significantly more than half the fun. I don't have a destination in mind.
Then again, my schedule also consists of "drive until I get tired or run out of vacation and then turn around and head home", so traffic jams probably won't stress me out.
Plus I'm doing it here in flyover country, where there aren't as many other people to get in my way.
You going to be with the tour for the Minneapolis stop, too, or just the current leg?