Addiction
Jan 6, 2010 | 8:17 pm
#16
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: SDF
Programs: Delta PM, IC Ambassador, Marriott Gold
Posts: 1,195
So, what other addictions do we have? I'd like to play more Blackjack if I had the time/money for it. Also, I am a television junkie (thankfully I have access to a TiVo and iTunes, since of course I'm never home). Anyone want to confess theirs?
Jan 6, 2010 | 8:21 pm
#17
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: New Berlin, WI, USA
Posts: 4,101
Not expecting this to be controversial at all. Wondering how you guys (and gals) deal with the addiction of this "hobby". I can't seem to take my mind away from all the mileage earning opportunities. Everything else seems to be taking a backseat. I was hoping 2010 would be a year focused on career progression (job search for a new/more exciting role) and even that seems to be taking a backseat 
Not diminishing the importance of this "hobby", love it (my middle name should have been travel). Just wondering if I am alone in having to take a more proactive approach in balancing in my time
Not diminishing the importance of this "hobby", love it (my middle name should have been travel). Just wondering if I am alone in having to take a more proactive approach in balancing in my time
Something is an unhealthy addiction only if my wife doesn't like it.
My wife enjoys those J seats and hotel stays that I can get with my FF miles and hotel points. (In fact, this is the only way that I can afford to treat her in the style to which she would like to become accustomed.)
Bottom line: this is a healthy obsession. Good for my marriage. ^
My wife enjoys those J seats and hotel stays that I can get with my FF miles and hotel points. (In fact, this is the only way that I can afford to treat her in the style to which she would like to become accustomed.)
Bottom line: this is a healthy obsession. Good for my marriage. ^
Jan 6, 2010 | 8:30 pm
#18
Moderator, Hilton Honors
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: on a short leash
Programs: some
Posts: 71,445
When I joined I just had a simple question about whether AC MLL or NZ KC is better at LAX (NZ KC being the answer). I was going to post it and go. That was 6 years ago.
Jan 7, 2010 | 3:11 am
#21
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Home Airports: CAE/CLT
Programs: Hyatt Globalist, National Executive
Posts: 5,460
^^
My problem was the getting status for the first time. DW didn't believe what I was telling her about the J seats.
I flew the entire family from CLT-DFW in F and then from DFW-FRA in J. A month later DW flew a TATL and I upgraded her to J RT. Paid cheap Y, upgraded with SWUs.
She has now drank the kool-aid and is looking forward to an award RTW in J.
My problem was the getting status for the first time. DW didn't believe what I was telling her about the J seats.
I flew the entire family from CLT-DFW in F and then from DFW-FRA in J. A month later DW flew a TATL and I upgraded her to J RT. Paid cheap Y, upgraded with SWUs.
She has now drank the kool-aid and is looking forward to an award RTW in J.
My wife enjoys those J seats and hotel stays that I can get with my FF miles and hotel points. (In fact, this is the only way that I can afford to treat her in the style to which she would like to become accustomed.)
Bottom line: this is a healthy obsession. Good for my marriage. ^
Bottom line: this is a healthy obsession. Good for my marriage. ^
Jan 7, 2010 | 3:13 am
#22
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Home Airports: CAE/CLT
Programs: Hyatt Globalist, National Executive
Posts: 5,460
Jan 7, 2010 | 7:15 am
#23
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Finally back in Boston after escaping from New York
Posts: 13,684
Well said my friend. But who else would understand it? I have a newborn at home and when I get done giving him a bottle in the middle of the night, I take a look at what's going on on FT :-) My hubby thinks I am looking for responses from recruiters in Asia (I do that too) but if he found out I was on FT, he would worry about me even more 
Funny story: I recently ran into another FTer in the DL lounge at BOS. He had his three kids with him, and the youngest asked how he knew me. He said it was because of FT. The youngest asked what that was, and the middle child said, "You know, it's that thing that he's on half his life."
It gets worse, not better.
Mike
Jan 7, 2010 | 7:28 am
#24
Join Date: May 2000
Location: IAD/DCA/BWI
Programs: SQ, LH, AMEX, Citi, Cap1
Posts: 4,113
Something is an unhealthy addiction only if my wife doesn't like it.
My wife enjoys those J seats and hotel stays that I can get with my FF miles and hotel points. (In fact, this is the only way that I can afford to treat her in the style to which she would like to become accustomed.)
Bottom line: this is a healthy obsession. Good for my marriage. ^
My wife enjoys those J seats and hotel stays that I can get with my FF miles and hotel points. (In fact, this is the only way that I can afford to treat her in the style to which she would like to become accustomed.)
Bottom line: this is a healthy obsession. Good for my marriage. ^
Jan 7, 2010 | 7:58 am
#26
Original Poster
Join Date: Nov 2009
Posts: 737
True, but then again, sometimes it takes a lifetime. Sometimes, one week is enough to know you're in it for life Now that sounds like another movie (that has already been made)