What makes the Sunday night flight from NYC to SF worth it? The money aint doing it for me. Do I need to accept that I am just not made for Consulting?

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I never did the Sunday. I basically did the red eye Thursday and came in by noon Monday. Wasn't interested in giving up my life for that travel

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Talk to your leadership. There is a point where travel time is not reasonable. Build a case and propose a couple different solutions. A manager on my project is flying cross country and worked out a solution where he flies in Monday night and leaves Friday. Worse case, build a plan to roll off in an acceptable timeframe.

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Good advice and insight both — thank you

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Same boat doing clt —> lax on Sunday. Thursday pm red eye back. Really starting to get to me.

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Travel every other week. It’ll make your life much better

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I have a very hard rule that I will not travel more than 2 hours to a client on a regular basis. It took some time but I got a solid network now that will keep me in my comfortable range. I suggest you do the same.

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There is some SF based Deloitte employee saying the same thing about his SF to NYC trip, don’t understand why these firms don’t get their shit together and start using logic when staffing these projects, that sort of travel gets good people to quit

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