Does your job involve you travelling?

Ush1

Just wondering for people who travel for their job such as sales people, do they enjoy the travelling? Anything that annoys you about it?

Might be required to travel back and forth to the UK for my job so interested on peoples feelings/experiences on it.

Genghiz Cohen

I travel both to, and from work.

krudler

To and from the coffee machine, thats about it.

cloptrop

Im a traveller but my job involves scrap metal.

minotour

Back and forth to the UK is very common and most wouldnt regard it as travel, not being snooty its just treated as a long commute.

Long haul travel on the other hand is great through your 20's, gets a bit tedious in your early 30's, then the kids arrive in your mid 30's and it gets great again. no coincidence there.

CreepingDeath

Many years ago, I worked for an Irish office of an English company.
For a few months I was working in their headquarters, flying over on Monday, staying in a hotel and flying back on Friday.

Travelling isn't for everyone.
You have to put your life on hold for 5 days.

It suits people who want to do it to progress their career / salary, but it gets old very fast unless you've a few mates travelling with you too.

jaja321

I travel a bit for work. I mostly enjoy it, and its nice to get out of the office and have a change of scenery. Can be exciting at first, but after a while it does get a bit tiring and sometimes it can be a bit lonely.:o

veryangryman

Ush1 wrote: »

Just wondering for people who travel for their job such as sales people, do they enjoy the travelling? Anything that annoys you about it?

Might be required to travel back and forth to the UK for my job so interested on peoples feelings/experiences on it.

Can be good, money usually decent to do it; get to see different part of the world (in my case Sweden and China) which you normally wouldnt otherwise go near. Definitely worth doing when younger and single.

Its not something id make a habit of though. You do miss the home and all that goes along with it.

Elvis_Presley

Going San Fran for work in 3 weeks, I can live with that.

homemadecider

I work for an NGO so have to travel to various parts of Africa several times a year. It's not always easy and the spiders can be giant but I really do enjoy it. Off to the Democratic Republic of Congo next week

jaja321

homemadecider wrote: »

I work for an NGO so have to travel to various parts of Africa several times a year. It's not always easy and the spiders can be giant but I really do enjoy it. Off to the Democratic Republic of Congo next week

Same here! Never get used to the bugs. Euch!

VictorRomeo

homemadecider wrote: »

I work for an NGO so have to travel to various parts of Africa several times a year. It's not always easy and the spiders can be giant but I really do enjoy it. Off to the Democratic Republic of Congo next week

DDG?

faceman

Yeah I travel with work, sometimes to more exotic long haul destinations.

The enjoyment of travel tends to depend on the following factors:

* Whether you are travelling along or with others
* if you like flying
* if you have family
* where you are going

No matter how fancy your accommodation it makes little difference if you are travelling alone! I'm off to China next week on my own with work but have arrange to do some improv and see some theatre while I am over there in the evenings.

homemadecider

VictorRomeo wrote: »

DDG?

Snap!

2ygb4cmqetsjhx

I am a consultant. I travel all the time. I am in a China Roll Out. I fly to Beijing several weeks at a time and them come back to Germany for a few weeks then Beijing a few weeks ...... I think it depends where you are travelling to. If I was travelling to England every few weeks I'd be depressed as ****!

brandon_flowers

Work for an offshore oil production company so wherever they want me to go, I go. Angola, Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea and Brazil are the most common. None of them exotic in anyway.

Travelling is the best education possible.

Used to travel within Europe - usually spending my time in office parks near interesting cities (note - not in the cities themselves)

One memory was going to dinner in a hotel in one of these parks where 80% - 90% of the tables were men having dinner on their own.

I sometimes took an evening or an extra day when travelling to explore, this wasn't always possible.

PostHack

I travel with work about a dozen times a year. I usually get to see a lot of where I'm going to also due to the nature of my work. A lot of business people go from airport to hotel to office which is where travel can get really tedious.

Mena

I travel at a very minimum every 2 weeks for up to 6 days at a time (usually 3 to 4). 60% of the time it's to mainland Europe, 40% of the time to the US.

Been at it for 2 years now. I can pretty much pick my own hotels so it's not too bad. Frequent Flyer miles and Hotel Reward cards are well stocked!

McG

I used to travel to England each Monday morning and back every Friday afternoon.

Monday's were exhausting as I tended to stay up late on Sunday and then be up at 3.30 to get the earliest flight from Dublin. Several times I'd get back to the hotel after work, fall onto my bed and wake up hungry sometime in the middle of the night having slept through Monday evening.

If you're staying in a hotel and on expenses you might want to watch your weight. I put on quite a bit with cooked breakfasts and hotel dinners every day.

Mena

McG wrote: »

If you're staying in a hotel and on expenses you might want to watch your weight. I put on quite a bit with cooked breakfasts and hotel dinners every day.

Yeah, good point, 3 stone on my part already. Trying to correct that but eating out 5 times a week makes it a little difficult :mad:

peasant

Deleted User wrote: »

Used to travel within Europe - usually spending my time in office parks near interesting cities (note - not in the cities themselves)

One memory was going to dinner in a hotel in one of these parks where 80% - 90% of the tables were men having dinner on their own.

I sometimes took an evening or an extra day when travelling to explore, this wasn't always possible.

This ^

Due to distances to and from airports & flight schedules it usually was a two day trip for a two hour meeting. Lots of very early departures / very late arrivals. Biorythm all over the shop, digestion getting sluggish.
Lonely evenings in sterile hotels far away from anything (but your customer), lots of time spent waiting / travelling but no time to do / see anything nice and meanwhile work piles up back at the office.

Wears very thin, very quickly.

Lawrence1895

I'm looking after a guy in a wheelchair, atke him out to the shops, to the pub. etc. Does that count?

OneArt

I sometimes I have to go to the toilet. Means travelling to the bathroom.

Gongoozler

My boss went to Cyprus last week, a colleague went to Malta last week, my other boss is going to Copenhagen in a month, and to Brussels the week after. I'm going to Athlone.


Athlone.

Frogeye

Used to do quite a bit of travelling-europe, Asia all over. Managed to attached a two week holiday onto a one week work visit to india. that was handy. have been to Thailand 3 times but never seen any of the tourist spots.

I do think that visiting these place for work gives you a better idea of the people. On tourists trips you get to see the sights and the locals are all friendly because the want you money. On business trips, you get to see them in there daily lives, food, attitudes etc and what they are really like but you miss out on the sights.

Most trips are airports,offices, factories, hotels and taxi's. If you get lucky and get in early and are in a city centre hotel you might get to see something. More likely you'll grab your dinner and then back to the room to check your email and try to miminise the pile of shi3e that is building up for when you get back. did I mention the extra work you have to do in preparation for the trip?

Still miss it though.

discus

Yeah, quite a bit. Been all over the UK with work, staying in different camps. Next year my unit are sailing for two months with the Royal Navy, we're doing a trip around the med. Afghan is another possiblity, or wherever kicks off.

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

I wouldn't like to travel for work, it's stressful enough travelling for leisure...