I am a wastewater chemist for a large municipility. I turned 45 yesterday. My travel is mostly leisure. I enjoy flying to Europe on very inexpensive tickets usually in the off season & using my miles to go to Australia in First or business. Now with the ability to get UA awards & US joining the * Alliance, award redemptions will only get better.
I enjoy flying & seeing new places. Of course, I go when the ticket prices are very inexpensive. I have gone SAN-LGW a couple years ago for $255 base & most of my LAX-Europe tickets were under $400 base.