If your job involves travel, what do you do?

[AngeloMysterioso]

Just that really. At a crossroads career wise and wondering how I can combine work with my longing to get on a plane!

Business travel is usually the opposite of all that is glamorous.

Once you are (very) senior, you can often fly business class and tag the odd day of sightseeing on here and there, but those days will be quite far away.

I would think more along the lines of airport-hotel-meeting-hotel-airport. With a nice bit of jet lag thrown in for good measure,

Grim. (for the most part)

I wasn't thinking of glamorous business class stuff, more cruises, perhaps expat nannying, that sort of thing

Pharmaceutical related, so travel is to medical congresses and the like. Very often airport-hotel-meeting-airport type stuff, but I have visited and spent time in several cities that I might not otherwise have seen, and taken a day or two extra holiday on the end of a couple of long haul trips. It's not glamorous, and is hard work, but I know that I am actually very lucky to be able to have such a broad range of experiences through work. It's never dull.

Property management worldwide. Always worked in travel and totally love it still. Have made it to places that have blown me away.

FMCG/pharma company. Business travel is overrated for me.
I actively avoid it since having DC as the burden of sorting out any additional childcare falls on me (my problem to resolve, I'm aware) and I find it tiring. Hotels are nice, as is the food, but I'd rather spend my evenings/minimal time with actual friends. You see a lot of nice hotels and inside cabs or planes.
DH travels a lot more than me and although he moans, I secretly think he loves it.

My friend worked on cruise ships for a while, she loved it but says it was long hard work.

Or teach English somewhere. I know people in SE Asia having a great time.

I am a senior manager working in events. I have had some amazing trips and travelled to places I would not have had the opportunity to otherwise. But. The hours are long, it's more often than not airport-hotel-meeting-airport and there is no time for jet lag. Now I have DC I'm actively avoiding it

I do business travel of the type described above. Similar situation in that it is not as glam as it sounds and I attempt to avoid it now, or do short trips to places I would have previously been happy to stay the weekend as well

Bumped into a nanny the other day at soft play who did mention that her prior job involved a lot of travelling to multiple cities / homes - sounded interesting but meant she lived-in as jetting off all the time with the kids meant it made no sense to rent in any of the cities they were frequenting and hard to have her own life outside of the job

I'm an academic. I see a lot of train stations, bus stations and airports, often at peculiar times of day/night. The academic conference circuit can be great fun - have learned to pace myself (leave the really hard partying to the PhD students!) travel light and make sure I get to see a bit of the place while I'm there.

I travel for work.

I was born on the wagon of a travelling show

In career terms, I preach a little gospel, sell a few bottles of Dr Good.

I travel a lot for work - one year before I had ds I was away 256 nights in one year. Totally overrated in my book - airport-taxi-hotel-work-hotel and repeat. Even when you are eating in lovely restaurants, all you want is your own bed and beans on toast

Used to travel a lot for work and when I left my job to go freelance as a consultant I resolved never to take a project that involved significant travel

5 countries on 4 continents in 3.5 weeks broke me

My passport says I've been to lots of countries I've never seen anything more than the airport, hotel and the client's office (and the taxi rides between)

Yes it was business class and 5 star hotels but there was sod all enjoyable or glamorous about it, when you're in your hotel room working every night till 2am

The only up side was that I got a shitload of air miles on the client's dollar. And a shoe box full of posh muni toiletries I'm still working my way through several years later

In my current role I have to go to Paris a couple of times a month but that's only Eurostar and so much more manageable

Give me my own bed and a reasonable length working day any day!

(She says, packing a bag for a work trip to Valencia. Have to be there on Monday morning which means travelling on Sunday. So that's half my weekend gone, sigh)

Oh yes, the air miles are a bonus!!