What do you DO?
 

This is sort of an extention of the famous Who We All Are Threads...

As many of you know, I am but a "poor" high school student. I find biz travel, especially on a global scale, very glamourous, even though reading Flyertalk reminds me of all the woes you encounter daily.

I'm curious as to what you actually do. What jobs you have, and what you actually do on the road.

Let me give you an example, the father of a friend of mine (the only real road warrior I know...my father only does 60K/year).

He works for a Tampa-based firm that is in the cable business. They handle transactions between communications companies (If XXX Cable wants to sell YYY service to ZZZ Cable) and capital start-up in communications (if XXX wants to start a company that does ZZZ), and investment banking.

When he travels, he meets with the various cable companies, etc, gives their product a value, and brokers the sell. He works in domestic, but he used to work in int'l, which took him to the company offices in Tokyo, Dubai, Germany, and communications companies all over the globe.

So, what do you DO?

Thanks, BizJet

College Student (University of Delaware)

Manufacturing, Old Gold's famous sootkase tags, as well as special hardware for the optics and semiconductor industries.

I work for FT and spend most of my time online! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/biggrin.gif

But BTW, I'm no real road warrior - rather more of a WIMP! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/wink.gif

Actually, I'm a "doc"! Sometimes a consulting "doc"! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/eek.gif

Oh yeah, on the road I also "chat up" FA's, hotel employees and waitresses too! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

I'm a writer. I used to be a computer programmer. I spend as much time as I can playing.

I'm VP-Sales & Marketing for an import company.

Newspaper designer and applications developer (for now); aviation attorney (2005).

(Thanks for the spell check, shadow.) http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/wink.gif

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essxjay, it might work out better if you could spell aviation correctly http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/wink.gif

Hukked on Foniks werkks fore me...!

Import manager in the printing industry. Any tips, Shadow? http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif. Resident non-resident.

Conference Registration Manager for a large, multinational trade show/publishing firm. Specifically, I oversee the Registration Department for the Game Developers Conference, a series of Internet Conferences and the Software Development Conference and a number of smaller conferences and events. Fun job.

I'm an Internet and Telecommunications geek. I fly around the world and talk to other geeks. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

I'm a newspaper editor (I CAN spell "aviation") who recently was contacted by essxjay's paper.

our healthcare consulting firm does the majority of its business in the Indian Subcontinent, Middle East, and East Africa.

Our primary businesses include design, construction, and operation of specialty hospitals and clinics / distribution and servicing of medical devices / provision of health insurance services to corporate clients.

At present I am Managing Director of our subsidiary in India and as such I get to travel a lot around the region as well back to my home in the States as well as to the offices/sites of our partners in Europe.

It's a very interesting yet challenging field which is experiencing tremendous growth at present. so for now it's still fun http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/wink.gif

I sell rare stamps to stamp collectors, worldwide, and have done for 20 years. I run the largest stamp dealing business in Sydney. All done from Australia, hence the OZSTAMPS handle!

Work for myself, from home, and this allows the flexibility to jump on a plane whenever I see a decent vacation deal to somewhere I have not been, which is getting less and less places each year.

All stamp collectors have a passion for history and geography, so this careeer allows me to slot in a tiny bit of work, and a LOT of vacations to exotic places on earth!

I am a writer by profession and still write extensively for trade and collector journals, and have owned and published a few. I write summaries of recent trips, some of which are posted here :

http://www.ozemail.com.au/~ozstamps/travel.html

~ Glen ~



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