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re: Question for those that travel a lot for work
Posted on 12/19/22 at 8:12 am to 12
Posted on 12/19/22 at 8:12 am to 12
I’m in a slightly different shade of life than you. I absolutely love my job and I work about 3300 hours a year. I’m a workaholic but trying to put it in the bank on the front end of my career.
I’m in my 30s and been traveling for work about 5-6 months out of the year for five years. I don’t have kids, although I have a fiancé my job works for us. Her personality does well being alone and handles me being gone 2-3 weeks at a time. She also holds down the house and a career.
I also handle being gone well but it does wear on me some times. I think about the fishing trips I miss with my Pops or crawfish boils at the house while I'm gone. I do want a family and if I get that chance, I will most definitely cut back on working out of town or look for a job that allows me to be home and not have to chase OT on the weekends. I dream of being a great family man and I’m envious of my peers who are. It’s just not in my deck of cards as of yet.
I’m in my 30s and been traveling for work about 5-6 months out of the year for five years. I don’t have kids, although I have a fiancé my job works for us. Her personality does well being alone and handles me being gone 2-3 weeks at a time. She also holds down the house and a career.
I also handle being gone well but it does wear on me some times. I think about the fishing trips I miss with my Pops or crawfish boils at the house while I'm gone. I do want a family and if I get that chance, I will most definitely cut back on working out of town or look for a job that allows me to be home and not have to chase OT on the weekends. I dream of being a great family man and I’m envious of my peers who are. It’s just not in my deck of cards as of yet.
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Posted on 12/19/22 at 8:54 am to cubsfinger
I accepted a job offer at the end of 2019 to be the Corporate Director of BD for a company that had offices across the Southeast and Texas. I am married with 4 kids. When I started the job, the oldest 2 were in college and the others were 14 and 10.
At first, I found the idea of traveling a bit for work to be exciting and the novelty of it was for about 6 months. And I wasn’t on a 50% away from home schedule. I averaged about 8-10 days away a month. I set my own schedule and would work around my kids extracurricular activities most of the time.
Even with that, it got old. I grew to really dislike being in airports frequently, picking up and dropping off rental cars, etc.. The novelty of it ran its course rather quickly.
Fortunately, I was asked to come back to my previous company in a lateral move where I would travel only to take clients on entertaining trips. I take a 2-3 day trip once a month now.
Everybody is different and some people love the travel aspect of a career if it is available as an option. It just wasn’t as great as I thought it would be even with the flexibility. But it also wasn’t so bad that I would have looked for another job if my current one wouldn’t have fallen in my lap. However, I was doing 20% on the road and not 50%. That is a big difference in time away and I have no experience with that. Heck, I grew tired of it at just 20%.
At first, I found the idea of traveling a bit for work to be exciting and the novelty of it was for about 6 months. And I wasn’t on a 50% away from home schedule. I averaged about 8-10 days away a month. I set my own schedule and would work around my kids extracurricular activities most of the time.
Even with that, it got old. I grew to really dislike being in airports frequently, picking up and dropping off rental cars, etc.. The novelty of it ran its course rather quickly.
Fortunately, I was asked to come back to my previous company in a lateral move where I would travel only to take clients on entertaining trips. I take a 2-3 day trip once a month now.
Everybody is different and some people love the travel aspect of a career if it is available as an option. It just wasn’t as great as I thought it would be even with the flexibility. But it also wasn’t so bad that I would have looked for another job if my current one wouldn’t have fallen in my lap. However, I was doing 20% on the road and not 50%. That is a big difference in time away and I have no experience with that. Heck, I grew tired of it at just 20%.
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