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General Discussion => Essentially Flyertalk => Topic started by: star seed 7 on November 11, 2015, 03:30:38 PM
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What is it you are doing? it's something I have never been able to wrap my head around. We have like phones and skype and whatnot now, so what requires you travel so much? Fully aware it's a stupid question, but I'm fascinated.
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As stupid as I realize this sounds, the little things than can happen in a 5 minute bio break, conversations about kids, interests, whatever, can really improve the working relationships and the final work product.
And of course some interactions are complex enough that trying to do it over VC is damned near impossible.
Imagine lobbyists, would those people be just as effective if they weren't living in DC?
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Also time zones. I was on one project with resources scattered from India, Germany, Denmark, Indianapolis, Kansas City, and California. About impossible to get all functions represented in a meeting no matter the hour of the day.
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Also time zones. I was on one project with resources scattered from India, Germany, Denmark, Indianapolis, Kansas City, and California. About impossible to get all functions represented in a meeting no matter the hour of the day.
So you are saying it is easier to travel to Germany than come in early to work?
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i go to places (not currently, which kinda sucks but is also kinda ok for a little while) and do stuff there. i usually don't have to talk or interact with anyone there, i just have to do whatever i have to do in certain places.
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i go to places (not currently, which kinda sucks but is also kinda ok for a little while) and do stuff there. i usually don't have to talk or interact with anyone there, i just have to do whatever i have to do in certain places.
I would like a job like this
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I would like a job like this
i probably made it sound better than it is. it's not really a very good job.
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Oh :frown:
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What is it you are doing? it's something I have never been able to wrap my head around. We have like phones and skype and whatnot now, so what requires you travel so much? Fully aware it's a stupid question, but I'm fascinated.
binge drink mostly. that is an IRL answer.
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i go to places (not currently, which kinda sucks but is also kinda ok for a little while) and do stuff there. i usually don't have to talk or interact with anyone there, i just have to do whatever i have to do in certain places.
Batman
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What is it you are doing? it's something I have never been able to wrap my head around. We have like phones and skype and whatnot now, so what requires you travel so much? Fully aware it's a stupid question, but I'm fascinated.
I only travel for conferences and only if those conferences are in Vegas. Most people I know that travel go to see clients and run conferences....basically junkets.
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i go to places (not currently, which kinda sucks but is also kinda ok for a little while) and do stuff there. i usually don't have to talk or interact with anyone there, i just have to do whatever i have to do in certain places.
Batman
close!
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Once a month to HQ to review stuff with people and decision makers there. Also my boss is there but his team (me and my counterparts) are all in different locations, so it's an opportunity to discuss stuff as a group or face2face with boss.
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I visit clients, colleagues, partners, etc. usually to discuss whatever they want to discuss but sometimes stuff I want to discuss. then we go to dinner and binge drink. then I fly home. IRL binge drinking is how stuff gets done. like, if we got faced and I paid for it and then two weeks later I need something what are you going to tell me? no? you old hound dog you aren't telling your IRL bud steve dave no. bring it in for a hug. what a world we live in.
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video conferencing really, really sucks.
I also work with lots of things that people need to see, touch, and feel, so it helps to have as many relevant parties involved in the same room at the same time. I also work a lot with factories and sometimes you just need to be there.
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Recruit studs and studettes!
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I love traveling for work but that's probably because I'm the boss and when I travel I visit my reps and they're all in really cool places like New York, Florida, Texas and California. So for me there is no stress because I'm not visiting clients or trying to land deals or anything like that. One trip was not very much fun because I had to fire someone in Dallas but then you know what, I went to Austin the next day and almost got arrested for trying to steal a forklift, but I didn't get arrested :D
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That's what it's all about lopakman
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Marketing stuff. (But mainly the binge drinking.)
Gonna win 'em all!
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I go where the work is. And where the government tells me to. It sucks
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I wouldnt mind getting out of town for work quarterly or so, but the idea of remotely managing what I do sounds like the worst. No thanks. I will stick with 2-3 vacations a year.
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Have to get in front of customers in my job. It's that simple.
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I don't travel much at all for work
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I don't travel all that much either.
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I do a lot. I might go the same client every week for 6-12 months. Sometimes I get local gigs, or gigs where we can work remote quite a bit.
It's project work, and the "team" collaborates quite a bit...designing stuff and trouble shooting and crap like that.
More and more clients are becoming comfortable with remote work. Which is why most of my field will be outsourced to India within 10 years.
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I have technical meetings via GoToMeeting all the time. Works great.
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I've only made a couple of trips ever. When I was fairly fresh out of school, I tried to get a job knowing that it required monthly travel to DC. I got the job and was super excited, but before the travel ever started, I was reassigned due to business needs. More recently, there were all of these plans and arrangements for me to travel to NYC every one to two months. The week before my first trip there, a senior person in my office decided that it would be easier for the NY people to regularly come to us and that was that.
Mrs. chum, on the other hand, worked for the state of Florida and traveled around the state every other week. They visited several geographic areas per trip and always made sure they scheduled such that they could stay in a hotel on the beach.
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I travel all over ks to all size of cities training and love it. Meeting people of all types
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Mrs. chum, on the other hand, worked for the state of Florida and traveled around the state every other week. They visited several geographic areas per trip and always made sure they scheduled such that they could stay in a hotel on the beach and binge.
fify
Gonna win 'em all!
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I travel all over ks to all size of cities training and love it. Meeting people of all types
meeting all the different types of Kansans?
Gonna win 'em all!
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Mrs. chum, on the other hand, worked for the state of Florida and traveled around the state every other week. They visited several geographic areas per trip and always made sure they scheduled such that they could stay in a hotel on the beach and binge.
fify
Gonna win 'em all!
They would each take a carafe of wine from the Embassy Suites evening reception up to their rooms. Every night.
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I traveled to Sabetha for work one time. We got free pop. As much as we could drink. I had 2 cans. What an afternoon.
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I traveled to Sabetha for work one time. We got free pop. As much as we could drink. I had 2 cans. What an afternoon.
From St Joe?
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I traveled to Sabetha for work one time. We got free pop. As much as we could drink. I had 2 cans. What an afternoon.
From St Joe?
Topeka. It was a while ago.
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Don't you travel for golf tournaments? That has to be a fun thing.
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Either way, that's quite a bus ride!
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I have flown 152 segments this year (that number is probably closer to 300 by the time I finished college). I work in clinical research where the FDA mandates you visit hospitals to audit their medical records. You cannot audit medical records remotely. It started out okay but now it is soul crushing. Would not recommend unless you are SteveDave in which case it sounds like a blast.
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I travel all over ks to all size of cities training and love it. Meeting people of all types
Guys, renocat is the best
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I have flown 152 segments this year (that number is probably closer to 300 by the time I finished college). I work in clinical research where the FDA mandates you visit hospitals to audit their medical records. You cannot audit medical records remotely. It started out okay but now it is soul crushing. Would not recommend unless you are SteveDave in which case it sounds like a blast.
Sometimes I get partied out like the slurm guy on futurama. :-(.
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Also time zones. I was on one project with resources scattered from India, Germany, Denmark, Indianapolis, Kansas City, and California. About impossible to get all functions represented in a meeting no matter the hour of the day.
So you are saying it is easier to travel to Germany than come in early to work?
I'm saying it's much more productive to get everyone to travel to Germany to get crap done than try to do it via tele/email/VC. My experience is only with technology or product development though, where speed is an order of magnitude more important than cost.
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I get to binge with new doctors out of college. It's pretty great. Just slap down that company cc. :D
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i visit construction sites and call out GC's on their BS
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used to travel a eff ton. 5:30am Monday morning flights were the worst. I hated it.
God bless video conferencing.
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I travel about 8 - 10 times a year, its not bad. I'd say about a quarter of the time, if pressed, some sort of remote meeting could supplant the reason for the trip. There are just certain things that go more smoothly in person. So, if traveling down to a place for a week to knock something out saves you 2 or three weeks of phone tag trying to get things done over the phone, just pack a bag.
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My wife travels overseas about once a month. Sometimes I go with her, but it's not usually to places that you want to visit.
For example, she's in Turkey right now. Her and her coworkers have armed escorts with them all the time.
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i would love to go to turkey
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why do they have armed escorts in turkey? are they in like the baltimore of turkey or something?
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why do they have armed escorts in turkey? are they in like the baltimore of turkey or something?
Most of their time is being spent near the border of Iraq and Syria. Guess it's just a precaution.
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i would love to go to turkey
For sure, if I could go to Istanbul or Ankara. They spent one day in Ankara, now they're in all these tiny little cities on the eastern border.
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Probably much more likely to die in a car accident. Those folks driving rough ridin' crazy.
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I tell management what I need to do is extremely complicated and can not be done remotely and i'm on my way to getting blackout drunk.
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i would love to go to turkey
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I really want one of those giant roasted Turkey legs right now
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I think that I would enjoy traveling for work.
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All my southwest points have soared lately. It's the best part about it. :love:
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I don't travel for work.I would like to travel if it didn't require me to interact with people.
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I think that I would enjoy traveling for work.
I do, so I assume you would as well
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I don't travel for work.I would like to travel if it didn't require me to interact with people.
oh my, perfect job :love:
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I think that I would enjoy traveling for work.
I do, so I assume you would as well
It will never happen in my current position, but I've got nothing to complain about.
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which of you road warriors has a watchespn hack for sw wifi? #hothorndogs
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i go to a couple of trainings every year. just jackson hole this year, though. next year? who knows! wow!
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which of you road warriors has a watchespn hack for sw wifi? #hothorndogs
:peek:
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I've spent like 10 out of the last 20 days in the chicago area but not in any stretch over 2 nights. it's essentially a regular medium long commute when I'm just going to chicago though.
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I've spent like 10 out of the last 20 days in the chicago area but not in any stretch over 2 nights. it's essentially a regular medium long commute when I'm just going to chicago though.
hang out with anyone from florida one of my buddies has been there about that same time frame. He just started a new job
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I've spent like 10 out of the last 20 days in the chicago area but not in any stretch over 2 nights. it's essentially a regular medium long commute when I'm just going to chicago though.
You've checked in at ORD a lot. I keep getting notifications that "steve d. is nearby at Tortas Frontera"
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haha
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What is it you are doing? it's something I have never been able to wrap my head around. We have like phones and skype and whatnot now, so what requires you travel so much? Fully aware it's a stupid question, but I'm fascinated.
Technical training and onsite troubleshooting for HVAC OEM. Not something that can be done remotely. Plus relationship building with local sales managers. Most of my Untappd check-ins are during the week.
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This week Boston, Denver and now on way to philly this afternoon. Basically what sd does except work really hard all day.
I get Slurm Guy'd out too but when you are in a different city the folks there want to Pak and don't care that you pak'd until 3 in Atlanta the night before.
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Friend of mine just said this was his upcoming work travel:
My next 10 days...Houston, Boston, New York, Chicago, Ft. Lauderdale, Cozumel, Belize, Ft. Lauderdale, Chicago.
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Do you guys have bae's in all these places you travel too or just the main hubs?
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Do you guys have bae's in all these places you travel too or just the main hubs?
just home base. I have like main bros in a lot of spots though.
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Just my wife at home. One is enough drama and expense. Plus vows and all that stuff.
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i visit construction sites and call out GC's on their BS
:Sword Fight:
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Install techs in our company travel wherever the project is. Leave Monday morning, come home Friday. We try to localize the technicians but sometimes the projects are so big we have to fly some in (or out). It's difficult to subcontract our labor outside of cable pulling by electrical contractors. It is also extremely hard to hire experienced people for the type of work we do.
I personally set my own travel. I'm usually a once a month guy.
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i love traveling in general but idk how much i would like it all the time and only being work related. i would probably like it but i never get to :frown:
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Just did a two week tour in Canada (Calgary, Yorkton via Regina). Anyone ever had issues with Canadian Border Security?
Tom
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Just did a two week tour in Canada (Calgary, Yorkton via Regina). Anyone ever had issues with Canadian Border Security?
Tom
My grandparents have a cottage in Ontario that all the aunts/uncles/cousins share now and an aunt was stuck driving a station wagon loaded with 5 elementary school age kids and was asked where we were going and said the name of the town, and then what were we going to be doing there and said "a rock concert, what the hell does it look like?"
She got pulled over and all the kids got interviewed and stuff.
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Just did a two week tour in Canada (Calgary, Yorkton via Regina). Anyone ever had issues with Canadian Border Security?
Tom
My mom's husband has. He's Canadian and I guess spent too much time in the US and they thought he was going to defect or something. I didn't really understand the problem. It took two years after they married to get a permanent visa and tax number and stuff so he could work here and not get hassled by the Canucks
I don't think you'll have that problem tho Tom ;)
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Just did a two week tour in Canada (Calgary, Yorkton via Regina). Anyone ever had issues with Canadian Border Security?
Tom
My mom's husband has. He's Canadian and I guess spent too much time in the US and they thought he was going to defect or something. I didn't really understand the problem. It took two years after they married to get a permanent visa and tax number and stuff so he could work here and not get hassled by the Canucks
I don't think you'll have that problem tho Tom ;)
I've had co-workers under go additional interrogation, and we had some consultants denied entrance. I'm 3:3 getting thru, but stress about it every time I go.
Tom
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Did your coworkers have a dui in their past? That gets a lot of people when trying to get into the country
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Just did a two week tour in Canada (Calgary, Yorkton via Regina). Anyone ever had issues with Canadian Border Security?
Tom
Yep. We're not fans of each other.
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Did your coworkers have a dui in their past? That gets a lot of people when trying to get into the country
No DUI but when there on business they seem really sensitive to whether or not you might be doing work that a Canadian could be doing.
Tom
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Now that I have a family I don't travel much for work anymore except the occasional site or client visit. Before that though, I spent the better part of 3 years living in a hotel. 6 months straight and then 3 weeks on, 1 week back in my home office after that. I got rid of most of my personal belongings and what i didn't sat in storage. I paid a friend a couple hundred to sleep on his couch 1 week a month and had my mail forwarded to the hotel. Pretty glad those days are behind me.
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Cross post from "people who buy crap thread"
In NYC now for a conference where some of our customers and other potential customers are exhibiting. It's alot easier to get someone to respond to you when you when you can say "I met your boss/CEO/co-worker at XYZ conference, they told me about your current widget needs and recommend i reach out to you to learn more about how you use widgets"
That and of course boozing with everyone in the evening.