Who else travels for work?

[Jeremiah]

Count me in. I have a F250 and a Tucker Sno-cat and am responsible for about 60k square miles of Northern CA and Southern Oregon. It keeps me busy and out of trouble but the projects sure suffer. The mrs travels for work so we will make sure our plans allow us to collide throughout our travels. It's nice to have a date here and there when our weekends together are scarce. We have not had two days in a row together since around Thanksgiving. Between my work in the field and her dealing with air travel it's been pretty crazy. In fact we bounce back and forth from one side of Cascade Mtns to the other so much we have a house on both sides. Sure can be confusing looking for stuff in the shop! Sometimes I walk in the shop to take a particular car to town and it's not there lol.

 

[Propwash]

Spend quite a bit of time on the road in field engineering/project management for small & large scale industrial outages, downs and preventative maintenance projects. Most work is in power/petro/pulp & paper, as well as military and structural work. A lot is confined to the Upper Great lakes & Dakota's, but do travel elsewhere, including worldwide. Get's old, but also rewarding at times.

 

[BumperMan]

I travel around 49k miles a year. I work in Western NC, Southwest VA, and West Virginia. Best thing is I am at home every night, bad thing is it is usually dark when leave in the mornings.

 

[Bruzilla]

I spent nine years as a training manager for the Navy and was on the road, and in the air, about 40% of the year. Best trips were to Jacksonville and Virginia Beach, worst was to Singapore (34 hour stress test!). My traveling days ended with that job. Now if I can't be in my own bed each night, I don't take the job, and the only travel I do is a weekend trip to Pittsburgh each year for the Steelers Fan Blitz event.

 

[1966satellite]

I'm retired but still on the road about 4 days per month for some consulting that I do part time. The money helps me support my "car habit" and I watch Craigslist in the cities I go to for parts that I can pick up and avoid shipping charges.

 

[69a100]

Air Force aircrew here. I go allllllllllllllllllllllllllllll over the world. The only time I really get to see it is if the plane breaks, otherwise it's hump, hump, hump. Just got back from Hickalulu and Korea. My body clock is still a little outta whack.

 

[alsant]

Thanks for your service .

 

[67 B-body]

thanks for your service .

x2 !!!!

 

[Budnicks]

Air Force aircrew here. I go allllllllllllllllllllllllllllll over the world. The only time I really get to see it is if the plane breaks, otherwise it's hump, hump, hump. Just got back from Hickalulu and Korea. My body clock is still a little outta whack.

Globe hopper, thanks for you service... stay safe

 

[roadrunnerman]

My work is my travels and my office has 18 wheels. 25 years career miles to date is probably close to 3,000,000 miles.

 

[69a100]

Globe hopper, thanks for you service... stay safe

Globe hopper, I like that!

 

[fwi]

I used to travel a lot for my work as flight purser with Air France (it is like an onboard crew administrative manager) my office was usually a 747. Jetlag becomes very tiring as one ages, the enormous time zone changes on the long haul around the world schedules. I did get to visit a lot of interesting places, but there is nothing like sleeping in your own bed and not having to try to remember where you are when you first wake up!

 

[modernistsouth]

... deal with Engineers, Architects/Designers {they are the worst} or rebuild or even new structures sometimes...

You are correct, sir. Before I changed careers to teaching, I had to deal with architects a lot. Apparently, arrogance and the ignorance of timelines and manufacturing processes is an MO to be an architect.