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For poll purposes, use your current company. Feel free to discuss other jobs you've held that required travel. Pick the closest option; I realize I can't cover every situation with only 8 choices.
How often? Most common cities? General industry? International?
I'm asking because I do love to travel, and finally I'm in a job that has already had me travel to 2 different places and I've only been there 2 months. They sent me to Boston for onboarding and initial training for a little over a week and paid for everything and at a nice hotel...that was awesome. Also sent me to Atlanta to shadow some personnel at Emory. Next year I will be going to ASCO conference in Chicago. Job descrip also said occasional travel to DC and San Fran. We have a lab opening up in Germany and China, so I'm hoping to somehow get out there to help train or set up or something. Never traveled internationally much less for work...would be cool.
Would love to travel more, any suggestions are welcomed lol. I am a lab tech in an oncology lab...working on a Medical Lab Tech degree.
Current job I travel regionally a few times a year. In previous jobs I travelled nationally quite frequently.
I will agree with you. Its pretty cool to travel to new places on somebody else's money. You get to see the country, maybe the world. It also gets old. Business travel is done on weird schedules, you are rarely traveling with family/friends, and after a few years one hotel room and bar is much like another.
I don't mind the 20 years of travel that I did, although for the last 5 years of that time I turned down more trips than I accepted. As it stands now, if I never go on another business trip I will be very happy.
I do like to go on personal travel a couple of times a year. That way I can go where I want, in the season that I want, and do what I want.
Best of luck with your career. If you find the travel enjoyable, take full advantage of it.
Travel was my previous job. All over the world. Military aviation. Loved every minute of it. But, all good things come to an end. Now I get to enjoy retired life.
Was nice in my 20's, but now with a family and young kids, its tough to leave the wife alone for a week. The younger engineers are eager to go, so I let them.
i traveled a lot for my old job - CPA in public accounting. So i had to go to client's offices for financial statement audits.
i HATED it. i love routine, so not knowing where i was going to be week to week was really awful for me. it would be Thursday and they'd say - hey we are sending you to Connecticut next week. I don't like surprises like that, i like my weeks planned out. They also didn't put us in hotels a lot of the time, so i was commuting like 4 hours everyday for some places.
I live in NY so it was mostly the tristate area. some people got to go to California and further states though, i always said no to that lol.
But that is awesome that you like it and your job offers it!
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