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[quote=Anonymous]It depends how the travel is structured:

-2-3 days per week or 2 weeks per month (Mon-Thurs)?
-All air travel or is it driving distance? 
-Schedule flexibility, ie can you take off a day here and there to get your life back in order?

40% in itself isn’t that difficult if you have things in place or have control over the travel itself. Age 25-33, I traveled by air every single week. Literally 70-90% travel. That was a lot, but it greatly advanced my career (it was pre-kids and in the stage where I set myself up for that transition). I was often promised 50% travel in hiring interviews, but it always became more.

I took a new job at 33 that was 40% travel and was about half air and half driving. The nice thing about driving is that I could control the calendar a bit more since I wasn’t dependent upon flight times. I could drive 3 hours on Monday morning so I didn’t miss Sunday dinner and leave after dinner on a Tuesday night so I didn’t have to miss Wednesday morning with the family. The company provided a vehicle. [/quote]

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