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People that travel a lot for work...
« on: November 11, 2015, 03:30:38 PM »
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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Re: People that travel a lot for work...
« Reply #1 on: November 11, 2015, 03:33:26 PM »
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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Re: People that travel a lot for work...
« Reply #2 on: November 11, 2015, 03:35:42 PM »
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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Re: People that travel a lot for work...
« Reply #3 on: November 11, 2015, 03:38:51 PM »
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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Re: People that travel a lot for work...
« Reply #4 on: November 11, 2015, 03:41:03 PM »
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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Re: People that travel a lot for work...
« Reply #5 on: November 11, 2015, 03:43:10 PM »
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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« Reply #6 on: November 11, 2015, 03:44:37 PM »
I would like a job like this

i probably made it sound better than it is.  it's not really a very good job.
"a garden city man wondered in april if the theologians had not made a mistake in locating the garden of eden in asia rather than in the arkansas river valley."

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« Reply #7 on: November 11, 2015, 03:45:04 PM »
Oh  :frown:
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Re: People that travel a lot for work...
« Reply #8 on: November 11, 2015, 03:48:51 PM »
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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Re: People that travel a lot for work...
« Reply #9 on: November 11, 2015, 03:50:49 PM »
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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Re: People that travel a lot for work...
« Reply #10 on: November 11, 2015, 03:51:50 PM »
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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Re: People that travel a lot for work...
« Reply #11 on: November 11, 2015, 03:57:11 PM »
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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Re: People that travel a lot for work...
« Reply #12 on: November 11, 2015, 03:58:07 PM »
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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Re: People that travel a lot for work...
« Reply #13 on: November 11, 2015, 03:58:23 PM »
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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Re: People that travel a lot for work...
« Reply #14 on: November 11, 2015, 04:04:19 PM »
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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Re: People that travel a lot for work...
« Reply #15 on: November 11, 2015, 04:05:41 PM »
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Re: People that travel a lot for work...
« Reply #16 on: November 11, 2015, 04:08:25 PM »
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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Re: People that travel a lot for work...
« Reply #17 on: November 11, 2015, 04:42:05 PM »
That's what it's all about lopakman

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Re: People that travel a lot for work...
« Reply #18 on: November 11, 2015, 04:55:01 PM »
Marketing stuff. (But mainly the binge drinking.)


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Re: People that travel a lot for work...
« Reply #19 on: November 11, 2015, 05:49:12 PM »
I go where the work is. And where the government tells me to. It sucks

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Re: People that travel a lot for work...
« Reply #20 on: November 11, 2015, 05:50:49 PM »
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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Re: People that travel a lot for work...
« Reply #21 on: November 11, 2015, 06:09:07 PM »
Have to get in front of customers in my job.   It's that simple.

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Re: People that travel a lot for work...
« Reply #22 on: November 11, 2015, 06:09:51 PM »
I don't travel much at all for work

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Re: People that travel a lot for work...
« Reply #23 on: November 11, 2015, 07:12:30 PM »
I don't travel all that much either.

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Re: People that travel a lot for work...
« Reply #24 on: November 11, 2015, 07:19:59 PM »
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.