Stuck in the airport...

[Wingate1217]

Since I am stuck at an airport again I thought I would poll the rest of our posters to ask "How many of us travel for a living, doing what, the type of transportation and the approximate mileage for the year.

I work as a consultant and travel by plane in excess of 100K miles a year all over the United States and Canada. I have had clients in Europe but the bulk of my work is in the US....

 

[starBUCKS]

I'm an Entertainment Agent, I go to our LA offices about every 6 weeks. Our Agency likes the Responsible Agents to attend certain things that we contract, so we can attend these events whenever. I just pick the places that I'd want to go to. Columbus later in Feb., Miami in March, Miami in April and Dallas in May. I only fly, obviously. All in all I couldn't say how many miles. You have to figure every trip to LA is about 5,000 miles round trip.

 

[MililaniBuckeye]

...travel by plane in excess of 100K miles a year ....

That has to suck...

 

[DaytonBuck]

More than I want to in a year. I travel around to several states in the region. If I traveled to some place exotic it might be cool but kentucky, ohio and indiana isn't.

 

[iambrutus]

dont travel for the current job but for my last job i was told that I would have to travel "occasionally". Occasionally turned into 4 week long trips in the 3 months that I was there. I actually turned in my two weeks notice for that job the day I came back from my last trip.

 

[BuckeyeRyn]

Since I am stuck at an airport again I thought I would poll the rest of our posters to ask "How many of us travel for a living, doing what, the type of transportation and the approximate mileage for the year.

I work as a consultant and travel by plane in excess of 100K miles a year all over the United States and Canada. I have had clients in Europe but the bulk of my work is in the US....

That equates to approximately 300 miles EVERY day of the year... FUGGABUNCHA that!

 

[craigblitz]

I work as a consultant and travel by plane in excess of 100K miles a year all over the United States

Same story I had for the past 5 years. I am now at a job where I only travel every couple of weeks. Work/Life is so much better... I do not miss the weekly flights and hotels at all.

 

[DEBuckeye]

I don't travel at all now, but I used to do a fair amount of it- all flying. I don't miss it one bit.

 

[jimotis4heisman]

nope. not like that.

i have in the past six months given three presentations in two time zones, making me take 4 flights in the same day. i was dead for a week.

 

[Basebuck]

I'm a Senior Project Manager for a large company with over 40 offices in the United States and 8 in Brazil. I work out of our corporate offices in TX so I really don't have that many long flights.
Last year my travel was at 72%. I ended up making AA Platinum by June. Total miles for the year was 110,000.

Most of the time I fly out at 5:00 AM, get to where I'm going by 10:00 AM, sit in a 3 or 4 hour meeting, give a presentation, and be home in time to watch TV with the family.

On a related note: Do any of you travelers ever have to stay in the office for a couple of weeks straight and start to get an itch to get on the road? That's the part that sucks the most. Once you get used to traveling it's hard to stay in one spot. Double edged sword for sure

 

[OCBucksFan]

Fortunately, my travel days are behind me, we used to have offices located in Las Vegas, Dallas TX, and opened one in Denver Co, there were days when I would fly out to the Vegas office, do upgrades to various system components (switches, routers, upgrades, etc...) then leave from there, go to Texas for a day and then fly home. Now both offices have closed and we have small 1 person offices out there so when an upgrade is needed I just fedex the new item, such as a firewall, printer, whatever... and they ship the old one back for repair or upgrade.

I hate traveling for work, I always thought the Vegas office would be great til I was crawling through a ceiling when it was 110+ outside.

 

[Steve19]

I travel to lecture and consult, about 50,000 kms a year. If it's to a place I haven't been before, that can be exotic.

My Dad went into a coma 15 minutes before the planes hit the WTC and he died that day. The struggle to get into the US to bury him and to get back home to South Africa changed the way I have felt about travel ever since. I now sometimes find it hard to get motivated to leave Cape Town even for a new place in Europe or whatever.

On the other hand, I really enjoy seeing the people and interacting with them. So, I still enjoy travel but a lot less than I did when I was in my early 20s running around Africa and finding out who I was.

 

[Steve19]

nope. not like that.

i have in the past six months given three presentations in two time zones, making me take 4 flights in the same day. i was dead for a week.

If they hadn't robbed you of that Heisman, you wouldn't have had to put up with that. Life can be so unfair.

 

[Wingate1217]

On a related note: Do any of you travelers ever have to stay in the office for a couple of weeks straight and start to get an itch to get on the road? That's the part that sucks the most. Once you get used to traveling it's hard to stay in one spot. Double edged sword for sure

Home usually the month of December. Most of my clients are in the retail industry and since that is their busiest time of the year, they really don't want you in the stores. Otherwise it is travel, travel, and more travel. During football season I even travel on the weekends as my son plays college football. Went to Hawaii last year where I got to tip a few with Mili. :)

 

[PlanetFrnd]

Home usually the month of December. Most of my clients are in the retail industry and since that is their busiest time of the year, they really don't want you in the stores. Otherwise it is travel, travel, and more travel. During football season I even travel on the weekends as my son plays college football. Went to Hawaii last year where I got to tip a few with Mili. :)

Which consumer consultancy is based in CLT?