Business Trip or !Vacation
I don’t know why, but I love business trips. Free food, free hotel, free travel. Not having to worry about buying tickets or paying for taxis or booking hotels or coworkers breaking the build.
In the end you spend some 8 hours actually working but you get 3 days off of work and you don’t even have to spend vacation time! In fact, you may even be complimented on how you’re “taking one for the team by going to the conference” I know, I love hearing myself talk as well, but I can do that any day. I don't always get to hear myself talk in another country with tons of people listening after having eaten the free breakfast buffet.
If you’re real lucky, you’ll get to go to exotic locations you’ve never been to. A friend of mine works in marketing and he tells me of his trips to Tokyo and Shangai and Hong Kong. He says it’s a lot of work, but the travel sounds like a huge plus to me. You could probably spend your entire pay check trying to go to all those places inside of a year.
Imagine getting to go somewhere, getting paid to do it, having fun and coming back and not being behind on work (because you’re actually working!)
My advice: business trips are the holy grail of work life. If you make it in with the right job and know the right people you'll forget you even work in an office building. Now you can call your parents and act like a big shot executive just like I've you've always wanted to:
"Yah, you know, I'm out here, doing the thing. Oh, guess where its at this year? Oh no where, only the moon!"
As opposed to being in college: you’d have to pay to go there, pay for food, setup all your own accommodations and on top of it all have to work out with your professors to take those “immovable” tests on another day. I never did understand why it was such a big deal. Every professors has to hold office hours, you couldn’t take the test then?
Oh yah, full time job => no freakin' tests.
