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I wish i got to travel.

same

I have a m8 he's been work for John R Turk, he been to china, hongkong, japan, india, usa, in the past 12 months. Lucky b@stard..

Well l might try and get work to pay for my trip to Tassie :(

Andrew :happy:

same

I have a m8 he's been work for John R Turk, he been to china, hongkong, japan, india, usa, in the past 12 months. Lucky b@stard..

Well l might try and get work to pay for my trip to Tassie :O

Andrew :)

Tassie!!!!! Hope you're taking the rex????? :(:(

I enjoy the travel. Now we have someone who covers Sydney, which isn't so good for me, as I love getting out and about. In the last twelve months, I've been over to Perth once, Adelaide twice, Brisbane about 5- times, Sydney close to 10 times and also out to Bendigo 3-4 times too. I was sent over to HK for a week anf a bit and boy did I enjoy that!

The real killer for me, is domestic travel day in, day out. It makes for LONG days. Usually means red eye flights to the destination, and the last flight back. My limit is 3 consecutive days, before I've just had enough and want to curl up into a ball and sleep.

Hell Juz if they are putting you up in a 5 star hotel you're shouting me a drink next time i'm up there when you are :angry:

Ev,

I'll be in Sydney from next Wednesday till Friday on business and then i'm staying for a weekend away, I won't shout you a drink but my work would be more than happy too. :)

Travelled all over aus for work and spents months away at sites during installation and commissioning. Worst was 6 months away in cairns on a large project. Became a Qantas Gold Flyer in 6 months from joining.

Also spent months away in Taiwan and Vietnam for work previously also.

New job only have to travel around Victoria so I am happy.

Ev,

I'll be in Sydney from next Wednesday till Friday on business and then i'm staying for a weekend away, I won't shout you a drink but my work would be more than happy too. :pirate:

Damn Juz,

I'm heading home Friday but and this is a :O but..... I just found out I have a quote to do when I get back to melb for 107 site around Aus so I'm sure I'll be around in Syd/Bris when you are.

God DAMN!!!! 107 sites!?!?!?!?!

Ah well I spose it will mean I'll have more $$$ for the Piggy :O

Edit: Just got a call I may be back up next week so I'll let you know :O

Ev,

I'll be in Sydney from next Wednesday till Friday on business and then i'm staying for a weekend away, I won't shout you a drink but my work would be more than happy too. :O

Hehe...Evan will take anything for nothing :pirate: He loves Sydney, thats why he's there so often! :O

I used to travel a shitload.

Lets count the airports in Australia

Sydney, Adelaide, Darwin, Perth, Queensland, Gold Coast, Hobart, Launceston, Canberra

Then there's New Zealand, Noumea three times, Vanuatu twice, America for four days, Thailand for a week, and then 6 days, and the sphincter of the universe for 75 hours (after 50 hours travel) and then I'm sure that there are more.

I can tell you which Aussie airports have which hire cars at which companies.

I used to travel heaps and mostly day trips around the country and then internationally more than a few times a year.

I got over it when I got myself a missus and a house that I was going to spend the rest of my life with.

When you are living at home, it's fun, you get away from the olds, you get to be your own man, do whatever.

But now, I just want to come home at the end of the day and spend time with my fiance.

I don't mind travelling, but a the same time, doing it three times a month started to piss me off at my last job.

With the new job, I enjoy it, because I'm not going to see angry customers, only happy ones, so it may well be an attitude thing.

Anywho, people who don't travel for work will never understand how tiring it can be. When I go to cool places, it's not like I spend four days looking around.

My New Zealand trip for instance.

You get a cab to the airport, it looks like any other cab you have ever got in.

The airport looks like any other airport.

You catch a plane, it looks like any other plane.

You land at an airport that looks a lot like the airport you juft left.

You hire car, same as taxi at home.

You drive to site, work your butt off cos you have a time frame.

You go to hotel, guess what, it's part of the same hotel chain as in Melbourne, hence it loks the same.

then you get up in the morning, work some more blah blah blah.

Drive to next airport, fly down to Christchurch, then to Invercargill.

Get picked up from airport by customer, straight to site. Work butt off. Oh, PS, sire looks like any other factory you have ever been in.

Go back to hotel, sleep, work, sleep work.

Fly back to Christchurch, then back to Melbourne.

Catch same cab home.

There's 6 days.

Fall into bed. Be back at work next morning at 8am, ready to work.

But, having said all that, it is a life experience sort of thing. Travelling for work means that when you go on holidays, getting through airports and dealing with strangers all the time becomes easier. You know the basics of everything involved with travelling so nothing and no country is very daunting the first time you go there.

So there are plusses and minusses.

You gotta do what you gotta do, to get where you wanna be.

BASS OUT

I would have thought travelling around all the time would be awesome! I wouldn't say no to chauffeurs and 5 star hotels.

What do you all do for a living to be able to travel so much?

I'm tipping Juz is the only one with the 5 star luxury and hot and cold running chauffeurs.

I got the local motel (mmm Budget chain) and an Avis commodore.

Anywho, people who don't travel for work will never understand how tiring it can be. When I go to cool places, it's not like I spend four days looking around.

The man has hit the nail on the head. If you're there to work, you don't get much time to do other stuff (at least I don't), work wants you to cram 2 weeks work into 1 week to save them money.

I mainly get to go to airbases, which are built where the land is cheap, ie in the middle of bloody nowhere, miles from everywhere else.

hmmmm...wonder if Juz wants to swap jobs for a week?

I would have thought travelling around all the time would be awesome! I wouldn't say no to chauffeurs and 5 star hotels.

What do you all do for a living to be able to travel so much?

I work as a Service Engineer for a company that builds/supplies histo-lab equipment.

I'm tipping Juz is the only one with the 5 star luxury and hot and cold running chauffeurs.

I got the local motel (mmm Budget chain) and an Avis commodore.

The man has hit the nail on the head. If you're there to work, you don't get much time to do other stuff (at least I don't), work wants you to cram 2 weeks work into 1 week to save them money.

You get The Avis commodore? I only get small/mid sized car. So Getz or Astra, here I come!

We have a limit of $150 per night hotel stay, plus $50 per day for meals. Not that great, but you can get by.

I would have thought travelling around all the time would be awesome! I wouldn't say no to chauffeurs and 5 star hotels.

What do you all do for a living to be able to travel so much?

i'm a medical writer so i get to live the good life once/twice a year when i get sent o/s to report on something... go the lobster! i don't think i'd care much for regular interstate trips... that could get tedious pretty fast... i think if your travel regularly, that's when the quality of hotels you stay at deminishes - if your company is paying, where as if it's a client etc, then they pretty much go the whole hog whenever they lash out...

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