{"id":290,"date":"2010-04-14T19:22:09","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T02:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chasingeden.com\/?p=290"},"modified":"2010-04-14T19:28:45","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T02:28:45","slug":"business-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chasingeden.com\/?p=290","title":{"rendered":"Business travel"},"content":{"rendered":"\t

I am traveling a lot for work these days.\u00a0 Traveling for work is not healthy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\t

You work very hard all day; after all you were paid to travel to this place to work….so you do it.<\/p>\n\t

You live at a hotel, so there isn’t much to do once you get back…so you work there too (since there is always something to do).\u00a0 So I would say I am working from sun up to sun down, with breaks to eat.<\/p>\n\t

Ah…eating.\u00a0 That is one of the few truly pleasurable things I do in a day.\u00a0 Since the meals are expensed, I do eat well…which means I eat too much.\u00a0 Then there is the fact of the stress of working all day…I usually drink with dinner (which is expensed as well).<\/p>\n\t

Working all day means you can’t go to the hotel gym.\u00a0 The stress and a bed that isn’t yours mean you don’t sleep that well.<\/p>\n\t

I always thought it would be somewhat glamorous to travel for work.\u00a0 It simply isn’t.\u00a0 “How was Chicago,” you might ask….well I don’t know, unless you count O’Hare airport, a random office building, and\/or the Marriott downtown.<\/p>\n\t

Airports are a HUGE waste of time.\u00a0 You wait in a bunch of lines, can’t do much in the way of work…the only thing good about airports is drinking before you get on the plane (that’s if you make it to the airport in time, since you always work till the last minute).<\/p>\n\t

You might also think it is cool to be at the airport with your fancy clothes and laptop, going to nice hotels, eating out on the client.\u00a0 No, it isn’t.<\/p>\n\t

You just wish you were sitting in first class instead of trying to cram your carry-on into the overhead bin and sitting next to some smelly (either from cologne or not showering) yahoo that wants to talk to you the whole time and needs to lose 3o pounds (which is fine…unless you are sitting next to them on a cramped plane).<\/p>\n\t

You wish you were waiting for the plane in the Club Room instead of hunting for some greasy seat to park it while you wait for the opportunity to wait again when you finally board the plane (which you could also avoid if you were a Medallion member).\u00a0 You really just wish you were at home.<\/strong><\/p>\n\t

So…..you eat too much, don’t exercise, don’t get to talk to your loved ones much, work too much, drink often, are stressed, and don’t sleep well.<\/p>\n\t

At least I have a job.\u00a0 For that, I am truly grateful….really.<\/p>\n\t

Its worth it for sure….seeing that I would be living on the streets otherwise. <\/strong><\/p>\n\t

You don’t even want to hear me complain about that!!!<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am traveling a lot for work these days.\u00a0 Traveling for work is not healthy. You work very hard all day; after all you were paid to travel to this place to work….so you do it. 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