A Mickey Mouse job, huh, PremEx?

BlondeBomber, you seem to be your own boss/a consultant, so you probably have the power to arrange your own schedule. If you don't, or if you're in a situation where everything had to be done YESTERDAY it can be tricky.

A fairly typical example of the sort of thing I had to do during those wild 3 months was
Wednesday: LHR-Venice work
Thursday: fog in Venice, so bus to Verona-LHR
delay = over 3 hours.
Friday: work near LHR, afternoon flight to Berlin (one of those romantic weekends)
Monday: last flight Berlin-LHR
Tuesday: arrive at work, discover I am going to DAR that evening. In office until 6.30, trying to get last minute seats: tube/taxi home, unpack-repack, taxi/train to LGW
Wednesday: arrive in Dar es Salaam via Entebbe: 15 hours on the plane. Berlin was midwinter (February), Dar is on the equator with 1000% humidity, temp over 40C, 3 hours of work, blisters walking across the tarmac.
Thursday: no useable flight from Dar to London, so (7am GMT) Dar-Harare via Nairobi on a dreadful flight which was supposed to be direct, delayed several hours, no apology, dirty bathroom. Too late to do anything useful (ie work) in HRE - dinner with friends, they are downgrading people on the flight to LGW, so I travel in coach
Friday: LGW in the early hours, home briefly, back out to LHR where I finish work late.


So - I managed to fit some personal stuff in, but that would not have been my itinerary of choice. When you're flying into remote places you often don't have a choice in terms of itinerary - if I'd waited for my return flight from Dar I'd have been there until Sunday, which my boss vetoed! So I spent over 30 hours travelling for a 3 hour job. And I felt like a wrung-out dishrag by the end of it. If other ffs don't understand this, who will?