G- O- D bless all you  folks who constantly  travel  on the job all year.  How do you  survive flight delays and cancellations and sleeping out more that at home? I hope you  get paid royally for your efforts.

I am constantly on the go , but as a leisure traveler,  and  when I get to where I am going,  it is because I want to  be there.  It is not a job: I dont' have to see clients, do presentations and worry about bottom line or the family at home.  When I worked,  I did short commutes to Boston, just a few times each year, nothing like what you guys do now,  traveling all over the  globe all the time

These thoughts occurred to me  on a weekend trip  to Chicago. I  attended  a Gala  fund for Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation  (JDRF)and also to see family so the visit was a happy one. 

Nevertheless,  my flights were delayed for more than  two hours  coming and going. Chicago was freezing and .I stayed at two hotels (one night  each in  comped rooms, but that's another chapter),

What's it like when you are always somewhere else because of your job?

Do  you eat too much  junk food, or drink too much on business trips. Do you keep in shape at the hotel  fitness center? Are you always exhausted from problems on the job,   or from   driving too far, or hanging out too long at airports? Do your shoulders ache from carrying  a too heavy briefcase?  How much do you miss your family and how often to you miss your  kid's soccer games and school plays?

Do you count the days, years when you won't have to travel as much as you do now?

Or,  do you really love business travel and see it as a perk,  a blessing that you are not  in a  9-5   job. Perhaps you like being away from home .

Or  do you continue to do what  you do  because the bottom line is the bottom line and you are rewarded handsomely?

Or , none of the above.

I wonder...