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My first position straight out of college was client-side, and I was traveling for conferences and meetings at least once per month, typically 3-4 day weekend trips.
I hated it. Absolutely hated it. I would literally spend the first two weeks of every month working myself up to it, and the last two *recovering*.
To each their own, of course.
I was miserable, but I am glad that I had that experience very early on in my professional experience and was able to steer myself in the right direction for me from that point on.
I travel every couple months for shoots. I enjoy it while I’m in it, but the lead up is always so stressful. I get lieu days if it happens over a weekend which is always nice to have a day or two of recovery time.
It felt great and glamorous at first. I know that I sound privileged when I say this too but it doesn’t remove the fact that it gets old quickly & it kinda ruins the fun of the place for you at some point. It felt like 2 extremes for me. I feel extremely lucky to be able to say that I travel for work but also I am tired to ALWAYS be on work mode for 2 weeks.
Fun at first, but by the time you realize you have old routines in cities you don’t live in (start going out to eat at the same places, stay at same hotels) you’ll start to hate it. Keeps you from getting anything else done in your personal life because you’re always away. Also trying to be a tourist while working will guarantee burnout so it’s just work without being able to go home at the end.
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I enjoyed it the first couple years of my career but it really drains me now. I only travel for research so there's rarely downtime. Shrinking teams and budgets mean I'm always alone with my client which is uncomfortable 90% of the time. Often I'm visiting cities like Atlanta, Miami, Irvine, or Austin which are fine places but feel like driving simulators. I always find a way to send someone else these days.
Only quarterly and it's fairly ad hoc; none of my clients require it so it's reserved for workshops or planning sessions. I tend not to love it, though it does depend on the client. I hate having to be 'on' all day long; I work remote 100% of the time otherwise, and find it exhausting being in meetings live all day, on top of the travel to and from, hotel pillows, eating takeout/restaurant food. If it's no or one time zone change I don't mind, but Chi to Cali or further is the absolute worst and it takes me days to recover afterward.
Never really did it and then had a period of a lot of travel. Was quite energising tbh. Enjoyed it. But it’s hard to be totally self sufficient if not going with people. Networking, eating etc solo I didn’t enjoy. Not done it much since.
I’ve had periods where I’ve been traveling maybe 10 days every month for years.
By far it was way harder on my partner than myself. If I wasn’t super conscious of how difficult it was for them at home, I would have loved it.
The only thing I hate is the red eye to Europe/UK, getting 3 hours sleep, and having to
go into a full day of meetings, then some kind of mandatory dinner while jet lagged.
Used to do it weekly. It was exhausting but also made me way more mindful of how I use my free time. I also got to hang out with friends all over the country on the company’s dime after hours, bank my miles and points, and got so much reading done.
This said, I’ve done it about quarterly since Covid and, MAN, the last five years have aged me.