its actually the scenerio of ppl in it wants out, and ppl
outside wants in. For those you who are travelling becos of work,
you feel sick becos you are always flying, you miss your family, ur
loved ones, life is hectic, always rush.
for us not travelling frequently, envy being to take plane, leave
the country etc. Actually travelling is fun but travelling for
business is not. heres why:
a. travelling for business = you are squeezed for time, there is no
such thing like spend 5 days touring a particular city. You are
whizzed off to your meeting or country office almost immediately
after you landed. Unless of course your position is in senior
management, then maybe you can afford to jalan jalan abit.
Otherwise as a manager or executive, you will not have the
luxury.
b. your schedule in the country is always packed with meetings,
meetings and meetings. Your lunch is probably a business lunch and
dinner is probably entertainment. You wine and dine probably with
someone you will not want to entertain / you are busy fending off
toastings or thinking of something to talk to your partners when
there is really nothing much to talk of. The only free time for you
to shop is probably near midnight or at DFS at the airport before
you catch your flight home.
c. the places you visit are in far fetched etches of the country -
not those glam places that you go on leisure. If you are lucky to
go those big cities (eg: Hong Kong / Tokyo) you are tied down with
meetings.
d. you are dressed in business attire - you are there to talk
business not play golf, so unless you have a fetish of wearing tie
& smartly dressed and yet enjoy every living minute of it...you
probably dread it.
e. bcos of the fact that you're travelling on company's expense,
your activities are scrutinised. Your schedule and period of stay
there is expected to be prudent and "just-in-time", so its really
difficult to pad-in excess days for leisure (unless of course, due
to the flight available)
f. some of us have to prepare travel report / status report after
each travel
g. can you imagine taking a long flight and you have seen the
movies like three times over?
Now the only good thing about business travel is: you clock up
travel miles very fast (unless your company states travel on budget
airlines only). And for some companies you can save up the
travelling allowance....
