Does anyone here actually enjoy business travel?

[Anonymous]

I dislike traveling for work. When I travel, I want it to be a real vacation. Work trips were somewhat interesting before I had kids. But now I'd rather either be home or on vacation.

[Anonymous]

I dread business travel. Up until the very last minute I am wishing that the meeting will be canceled and I can stay home.

[Anonymous]

If it's every quarter and not every month I don't mind it too much. It's interesting for me to travel to clients. I dreaded it when my kids were very small, but now that my kids are older and aren't so dependent on me, it's nice to have a few days to myself to concentrate on work all evening if I want, have a nice meal at a restaurant with adults, and maybe sneak in a manicure after I'm done for the day.

[Anonymous]

I only do it once in a long while and I love it.

[Anonymous]

I took a new job specifically to not have to travel

[Anonymous]

The once a month is a breeze and love it. Clean sheets and someone else cooking

It is the get up Monday and come back Friday week after week that sucks

[Anonymous]

I can go a few years without travel and when I do travel it’s no more than 3-4 weeks a year. At that rate I kind of like it - I miss my kids and worry about something happening but either I go to new places and try to build in some time to explore or (more typically) I go to DC. I lived there for 13 years and still have many good friends there so it’s nice to go back. I haven’t been in 6 months though and I assume the vibe is quite different now.

[Anonymous]

Yes only because it only happens once, maybe twice a year. The conference I go to is usually in some warm location during the cold months here and the set up usually allows us for breaks between talks so I enjoy relaxing outside for a bit with a couple of my coworkers. Enjoy the talks and then getting dinners and drinks with them. I'm friends with coworkers outside of work so it's generally a 4 day mini break with some interesting work related presentations thrown in

[Anonymous]

I think business travel varies so widely, so that why you're going to get different responses. For me, it means depositions and court hearings, and so the trips don't have downtime, are fairly stressful, and I'd much prefer that everything be in DC instead. But if I went to conferences or had client meetings that weren't stressful and had lots of downtime, I might enjoy business travel because it would be more of a break from work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think business travel varies so widely, so that why you're going to get different responses. For me, it means depositions and court hearings, and so the trips don't have downtime, are fairly stressful, and I'd much prefer that everything be in DC instead. But if I went to conferences or had client meetings that weren't stressful and had lots of downtime, I might enjoy business travel because it would be more of a break from work.

+1. One of my friends was in consulting and got out on assignment in Nebraska for months where he had to spend 4 days a week there. He quit pretty quickly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes only because it only happens once, maybe twice a year. The conference I go to is usually in some warm location during the cold months here and the set up usually allows us for breaks between talks so I enjoy relaxing outside for a bit with a couple of my coworkers. Enjoy the talks and then getting dinners and drinks with them. I'm friends with coworkers outside of work so it's generally a 4 day mini break with some interesting work related presentations thrown in

+ Love it because similar frequency and events

[Anonymous]

I used to love it. Been on 200-300 business trips.

Hate it. I was coworkers and staff post 2007 got all PC and woke and budgets cut.

But back in day we $1,000 dinners then go clubbing in Vegas or LA or Miami and expense it all.

Also staff under 40 are now boring. They hide in hotel rooms and eat in their rooms.

I still have a picture of a Vegas Business trip with like 200 of us in pool getting drunk and another in 1999 of us mechanical Bull riding in Texas and another Viper Room LA

I lived then when kids little. Needed the break.


This year I am going Nashville and Nemacolin for work only two

[Anonymous]

hate it. so
useless. catering to boomers need to be relevant, insisting you cant say things on a virtual meeting that you can say in person. your ineptness with technology shouldnt be putting me on a plane

[Anonymous]

My business travel is always connected to an event or meeting that I don't want to attend, so I never enjoy it despite usually being at an otherwise fabulous location. I am there for work, and internal and external colleagues were always around so I couldn't lounge by the pool anonymously. Down time is consumed with checking email and doing work to avoid getting behind. It would be great to do business travel for something I enjoyed.

[Anonymous]

I have a business trip once every year or two and would be happier without them at all. Like other said, it's usually for something I don't enjoy, my work piles up and it makes a mess of my home life.