Jericho: The Seattle of the Midwest
This week in Chicago has not felt much different than being in Seattle - the weather has been a little more muggy, but it's been cloudy, misty and cool - I haven't missed the weather of home at all!
As to everything else, well, that's another deal. Traveling for work always sounded like fun to me, until I started doing it. This trip to Chicago has been another example of why traveling for work is no fun. Sure, I'm staying in a five-star hotel in one of the most exciting cities in the world. But, with the twelve or more hour days, the pressure to make systems work in very short order, the lack of my wife or my friends or even my damn cats, this place isn't much fun. Heading off to the third building of the day to do more work at 8 PM on a Friday night while everyone else around you is partying - and then having the frustrations of systems and processes not work and feeling like you are wasting a lot of your time, all results in a very displeased Jericho.
We're close to done here, the systems are coming together, by the time I leave we should be in pretty good shape. But, today, Sunday, almost 9 AM my time, I've already been onsite for nearly an hour and a half and my day is just starting. Today will be another twelve or so hour marathon. I leave town on Wednesday.
As to everything else, well, that's another deal. Traveling for work always sounded like fun to me, until I started doing it. This trip to Chicago has been another example of why traveling for work is no fun. Sure, I'm staying in a five-star hotel in one of the most exciting cities in the world. But, with the twelve or more hour days, the pressure to make systems work in very short order, the lack of my wife or my friends or even my damn cats, this place isn't much fun. Heading off to the third building of the day to do more work at 8 PM on a Friday night while everyone else around you is partying - and then having the frustrations of systems and processes not work and feeling like you are wasting a lot of your time, all results in a very displeased Jericho.
We're close to done here, the systems are coming together, by the time I leave we should be in pretty good shape. But, today, Sunday, almost 9 AM my time, I've already been onsite for nearly an hour and a half and my day is just starting. Today will be another twelve or so hour marathon. I leave town on Wednesday.
posted by Jericho Brown at 3/28/2004 06:48:00 AM
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