Traveling as an Engineer

zebes
Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:11:48 +0000

My H (Ph.D. MechE) travels a few times/year. Yeah, he’s got those fly in on a Monday, go to D.O.E meetings and fly-out on Wed kind of trips. But he’s R&D, so he does a lot of testing, too. In the past several years he’s tested primarily in Germany, Italy (a lot), England, and Poland. These trips are minimally two weeks, to allow time to do the testing and with the realization that you are working on a European schedule, in terms of technicians, etc. Sometimes it’s hard to get someone working on a weekend. Usually, he’ll spend part of Sat. crunching numbers, but then he’ll use the rest of Sat. afternoon and Sun to sight-see. He’s also been to South Korea, Poland, Puerto Rico, and Columbia (trouble-shooting). No sight-seeing in Columbia, and actually, with all the security he was under, I’m glad he’s not had to do that in several years.

zebes