Road Warriors

[perdido]

Apts limiting the number of keys is usually a cost saving step, sometimes it is security. Just tell them you need a spare set to keep in your car and offer to pay for them.

[WTF]

Ambien. . .

sleep is not overrated.

[Guest053011]

Originally Posted by WTF

Ambien. . .

sleep is not overrated.

I've been an insomniac since childhood. To this day no doctor will willingly prescribe me sleep aids. I don't know why they've decided *I* in particular should not use them, but there you have it. They always say "but you're so young..."

Originally Posted by WTF

Try and find a gym where ever you are. Keep that routine going.

On the road I get all the exercise I need in the bedroom

[WTF]

Originally Posted by Lauren Summerhill

I've been an insomniac since childhood. To this day no doctor will willingly prescribe me sleep aids. I don't know why they've decided *I* in particular should not use them, but there you have it. They always say "but you're so young..."

That sucks! I use them on long flights or red eyes mostly.

Originally Posted by Lauren Summerhill

On the road I get all the exercise I need in the bedroom

Sounds like that sucks too! Make the road your home and treat the home front as a road trip!

[atlcomedy]

• Don't cheat on the expense report. Oddly this seems to occur with mid-senior employees (that probably have been padding for 20+ years) as often as new people.
• Don't let the fact that something isn't expensible keep you from doing it if you'd like to do it. Get that spa treatment you want, go to the ball game or show on your own dime. Afterall you still probably come out ahead for the week vs. if you were at home paying for your own meals and filling your own gas tank
• If you regularly travel with colleagues make an effort to join the group out for dinner, etc. More real bonding occurs on the road than all of the organized "teambuilding activities" back home.
• That said maintain boundaries. If your colleague asks for a ride to the airport because his car is in the shop, do him the one time favor. Don't let that become an expectation (lest you want to be waiting for him outside his house every Monday at 6:30am).
• If you are the one travelling and you are visiting the same workgroup regularly that are based in the city you visit, don't imposition them by regularly asking them out for dinner or drinks. Sure you have just an empty hotel room awaiting you, but they have familes, soccer practice, grass to cut, etc. Obviously special occasions are different.
• As stated, get your exercise. Personal preference only, but I suggest mornings. On the road, often, your schedule is less predictable. It takes a lot of disicpline to actually workout at 10p after a big dinner. If you do resistance training (weights), know that a lot of even nice hotel gyms suck with regards to free weights, plan your schedule accordingly (like get that big resistance workout in at home before you leave).

[Sisyphus]

Originally Posted by Lauren Summerhill

On the road I get all the exercise I need in the bedroom

NOW...that's a fitness program I could get into!!!

Originally Posted by WTF

Make the road your home and treat the home front as a road trip!

That's what I was getting at! When you're on the road that much, "be here now" is the only philosophy that worked for me. I'd do all the stuff I WANTED to be at home doing whilst on the road. That way, I could treat those rare moments at "home" as the kind of vacation I'd LIKE to have in all the places I was working in.