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Oct 10, 2010 | 4:00 am
#62
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: India
Programs: DL Diamond, Bonvoy Lifetime Titanium, ALL Platinum, IHG Platinum
Posts: 30,703
Oct 10, 2010 | 7:13 am
#63
Join Date: Jul 2010
Programs: AA XPLT, 1K
Posts: 7
I do market research in emerging markets. From mid-july until the end of October I will fly 105,000+ miles. I wouldn't trade the work, but we all have limits. I did 40K last month in the air, 2K by train. (only the ORD-PEK was in business) I was in a plane or train 22 out of 23 days. At one point I had to fly Tokyo to my home in Kentucky for 14 hours and then get on a plane back to Beijing.
I typically will try to spend at least 1 day to sight see on these trips so that it my bonus. I couldn't do it if I had a family,
I typically will try to spend at least 1 day to sight see on these trips so that it my bonus. I couldn't do it if I had a family,
Oct 10, 2010 | 3:05 pm
#64
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: MHT/BOS
Programs: Many
Posts: 429
I rather not give too much bio info on FT.
My advice:
Be creative. Follow things that interest your and you are good at. Don't assume things can't be done; always be looking for a way to solve the complicated obsticles and find a way. Where there is a will there is a way. Staring and growing a business means LOTS of time and dedication...very long hours and hard to stop thinking about work related things after hours. But once you succeed you have assign more and more of your work to employees and have a lot of freedom to do things you always wanted to.
My advice:
Be creative. Follow things that interest your and you are good at. Don't assume things can't be done; always be looking for a way to solve the complicated obsticles and find a way. Where there is a will there is a way. Staring and growing a business means LOTS of time and dedication...very long hours and hard to stop thinking about work related things after hours. But once you succeed you have assign more and more of your work to employees and have a lot of freedom to do things you always wanted to.
Oct 10, 2010 | 3:37 pm
#65
Join Date: Nov 2008
Programs: Too Many to Count
Posts: 510
Consultant. And really, don't be enamored when anyone says they're a consultant. Everyone and their mom is a consultant these days. VERY few do 'real consulting', and believe me, I ain't one of them. 80% of the time I'm a glorified MS Office expert...
Anyway, it's a good job, I suppose. And by good, I mean coveted, not intellectually stimulating. I travel all the time. EXP three years in a row at the age of 26. I don't have any expenses...no apt/home, no car bills or gas, no cell phone, no laptop, no internet...it's all paid for by my company. That, and they let me fly anywhere on the weekends. That's the only reason I'm still with the company. Building up my war chest to start my own little thing...
Anyway, it's a good job, I suppose. And by good, I mean coveted, not intellectually stimulating. I travel all the time. EXP three years in a row at the age of 26. I don't have any expenses...no apt/home, no car bills or gas, no cell phone, no laptop, no internet...it's all paid for by my company. That, and they let me fly anywhere on the weekends. That's the only reason I'm still with the company. Building up my war chest to start my own little thing...
Oct 26, 2010 | 1:25 pm
#66
Join Date: Apr 2010
Programs: AA EXP
Posts: 335
I'm a musician and that nets me so many miles. With festivals in OZ and Europe and being based out of JFK, it's a constant zig zag of flying. The weird part is you fly like crazy and qualify for EXP (or high status level) then as the nature of releasing an album, you then have an off cycle where you don't fly much and you are back down to a lower status right when you are about to gear up and start flying a ton again. Haha. Kinda random/strange but a lot of fun! I can't complain!
Oct 26, 2010 | 2:33 pm
#67
Join Date: Sep 2009
Programs: *G, SPG, OW Sapphire
Posts: 2,568
I'm a musician and that nets me so many miles. With festivals in OZ and Europe and being based out of JFK, it's a constant zig zag of flying. The weird part is you fly like crazy and qualify for EXP (or high status level) then as the nature of releasing an album, you then have an off cycle where you don't fly much and you are back down to a lower status right when you are about to gear up and start flying a ton again. Haha. Kinda random/strange but a lot of fun! I can't complain!
Oct 26, 2010 | 8:58 pm
#68
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: ORD
Programs: AA EXP >3 Million miles,HH Lifetime Diamond
Posts: 3,440
I rather not give too much bio info on FT.
My advice:
Be creative. Follow things that interest your and you are good at. Don't assume things can't be done; always be looking for a way to solve the complicated obsticles and find a way. Where there is a will there is a way. Staring and growing a business means LOTS of time and dedication...very long hours and hard to stop thinking about work related things after hours. But once you succeed you have assign more and more of your work to employees and have a lot of freedom to do things you always wanted to.
My advice:
Be creative. Follow things that interest your and you are good at. Don't assume things can't be done; always be looking for a way to solve the complicated obsticles and find a way. Where there is a will there is a way. Staring and growing a business means LOTS of time and dedication...very long hours and hard to stop thinking about work related things after hours. But once you succeed you have assign more and more of your work to employees and have a lot of freedom to do things you always wanted to.
Oct 26, 2010 | 9:13 pm
#69
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: PHX
Programs: US, DL, BA FF Progs
Posts: 126
+1 That's what I'm working to achieve!
Abagail
Abagail
Agree with this poster. Spouse has been execplat for 10 years and I have been on and off, no lower than plat. One of us has corp job, with great vacation (six weeks) and the other is self-employed. We're open to new and interesting routings, and make the most of mini MR's of 2 -4 days. We dont have to travel at the expensive summer or xmas time, so the cost is less. This year was a long weekend in DEL, another in ICN, 2 weeks in Australia and New Zealand with a weekend in LHR on the way home., a week in the middle east, and china next month. I cant imagine a reason to call in sick so my work attitude, attendance and productivity is 100%+ when Im there since I have this incredible freedom to balance life and work.