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As most of our answers goes: it depends. How far is the client? I have been lucky for the most part, living on the west coast, most clients have also been west coast. Usually flights are 1 hour. Max was 2.5 hours.
Depends on your living condition at home. We have a small condo we are renting in silicon valley and we are paying an arm and a leg for it. Plus there is no room for an office or even an office table I have to use the dining table which never has enough space to move my mouse around as my wife is also using the table at the same time.
Also because of lack of space, we have one queen size bed where my wife and the two kids sleep. I sleep on a soft roll-up mattress the floor. Its comfortable as hell so I don't mind, but maybe sleeping arrangements on the road would benefit you.
The best and worst part of working remotely is that you are working remotely. Everything can be amazing either way - just depends on your outlook and attitude.
TL;DR make the most out of every opportunity you have both when you travel and when you work remotely
More time to focus on work, and won’t be as bad as I think? Travel project coming up, first one.
It comes and goes. I get more done at home because once I’m up and back from the gym at 6am I’ll get work done drop off at school back to getting work done, etc and then I get pretty tactical and only schedule things in the evening that absolutely need to be done.
Travel gets old. It’s a lot of fun for about 3 months in a Hotel then gets old. It can beat you down. I spend more nights in hotels than I do in my own bed. The upside is that I haven’t paid for a vacation out of pocket in years because of points.
I have periods when I had travel and periods where I love it. I still get more done when working from home because I can think without constant interruption during the day by people coming by
I’m on what I’d call reasonable travel 2 nights away each and every week. I bust my ass on the road and work late so that I can leave the office at 5 and be done working before I’m home.
I don’t ever work weekends, that time is sacred.
Since it works for my family I’m happy to be on the road, keep up my client duties and be a focused dad when I am home. Travel ain’t bad for me and my family with a couple nights away a week.
@OP I agree with West Monroe. I work hard during the week and generally don’t work on the weekends. When I’m at the client I’m at the client; I don’t have fuck of time during the day so therefore after I leave the client and go back to the hotel I usually shut down the computer and monitor email by phone
I usually go to bed between 9 and 10 and get up between 4 - 415am
I have two kids. I get more done working remotely than when I travel out to the client site
D1 - Shoot...
D1 - Totally makes sense, I hear you, man BACK from the gym by 6AM?! What time do you go to bed?
I am going to be traveling from now until August...sort of nervous about it, with daughter at home.
PwC1 - 1.5 hour drive to the airport, 1 hour flight. Or, 15 min drive to smaller airport - sit at larger airport for 2 hours on layover. Good advice
When I’m in town I can only work 9am-4pm and then again from 10pm. So depending on how busy the project is, it’s great to horrible