The last, oh, three weeks
have seen me in California, Oregon, Indiana and Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and iowa. It has been a long string of cleaning up messes left by other people. And field engineering solutions to problems that should have been engineered properly in the first place.
It’s good to be employed, I keep telling myself that. Still, I’m tired, and my back and knees are wrecked, and I hope when raise time comes around there will be some consideration for this.
It’s good to be good at what you do, but once everyone knows it, you can be over-utilized.
I hope you get a break, at least for the holiday!
My record for travel when I was with the State Dept. as a tech was 70% out of the office for the first year. My boss almost had a heart attack when he saw the number because regs said no more then 25% travel. So next year it dropped to 69%, heh, heh.
used to travel a lot. Have to say I don’t miss it at all. Have to be a little more productive at work as I do not have the excuse of being in transit now.
Hopefully they will get you an intern you can train up. Or at least a good old fart to take some of the load.
I don’t miss the East coast driving but I do miss going to new places overseas.
Fixing bad designs in front of customers is at best a break even game. They are happy it now works but they wonder why it didn’t come that way in the first place.
It is good to have a job, I can’t remember when that was. Not sure how long the money will hold out before I’m eating cat-food.
Never traveled much for work, it cost them, too much so obviously my value was indistinct.