Traveling as an Engineer

PurdueEE
Fri, 05 Jun 2009 10:55:58 +0000

That’s specifically why I mentioned “particularly on longer trips.” Obviously you’ll have more “vacation time” if you’re going somewhere for a week or more, but if you’re going to fly in on a Monday night and back on Wednesday night you won’t have much. I actually applied to one job that would do this, for example during a week you might go to work on Monday, fly somewhere Monday night, do work related things on Tuesday and Wednesday, fly back on Wednesday night, drive somewhere for a meeting on Thursday during the day, and then return back to normal work on Friday. That was one of my interviewers’ schedule for the previous week and was considered a normal thing that you might do every few weeks. This job required a substantial amount of travel. Needless to say I was not very interested in that job!