Traveling sucks
Seriously, people that enjoy being in a job that pushes them around the country at an ambitious pace are just plain nuts.
Nuts, as in Planters Mixed Nuts short of a few cashews.
Sure, in some professions, it is a measure of how successful you are. But I think in IT, it is generally a sign of how UNsuccessful you are.
If you are in IT, not IT sales but support mind you, and you have to travel often to get things done, you are doing it wrong. And you probably need to rethink your tactics a bit.
Granted, the travel I had to experience last week was a fluke and I had no pre-existing presence at the sites I visited, but still, I think it could have been (should of been) avoided. Getting out of the office is a nice change, but not when the change of pace is a whirlwind tour of seven sites in seven cities in four different states. I felt not only braindead on Friday, but I was concerned I didn’t really retain the info I needed. That is why I took notes, and took pictures.
But seriously, anyone could have done that. Why it had to be me, I don’t know. My boss’s gut said so?
That kind of travel should just be avoided, period.
I guess as a corollary observation of a similar behavior, I have never understood the hectic see-everything-in-a-rush vacation that some people enjoy. My idea is going to a vacation to rest and relax and enjoy the scenery, not trip over your damn feet every time you look up and ending the vacation more tired than you were when you left it.
Give me a quiet cafe, a book, some good coffee in that old Roman palazzo, and let the Colosseum be damned.
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