***How many days per year do you travel***

[therealdope]

Do You travel more when you work corporate than running your own company?

Corporate but it depends on your role. If you have global commercial responsibility you could be traveling 80% of the time if you choose to. OTOH, you could travel once a year if you're in engineering.

I know entrepreneurs who travel all the time but I'm convinced they are just fucking around half of the time with needless travel.

 

[MASShole]

I know entrepreneurs who travel all the time but I'm convinced they are just fucking around half of the time with needless travel.

100% agree.

 

[Doughbelly]

I mean in the more traditional sense like you have a home base and travel weekly or sporadically.

You sound like you move from place to place very frequently.

Well, the point I was trying to make was that the model you're describing as traditional is a very North American one for domestic travel.

Once you step outside of that into the world of frequent international travel, that's a model that doesn't apply to the majority, (especially more so in the past). Traveling weekly doesn't make sense if you're sending employees to the other side of the planet. You end up either jamming a weeks-long itinerary together or you set the guy up in a company apartment and let him use that as a home base for the time he's there. Just about one of the worst things you can do for employee's health and productivity is send him to the other side of the planet, bring him back two weeks later, then two weeks later send him back.

Personally, there were times when I didn't return stateside for years, but never held residency anywhere else, either. Not even what you might call a "home base" in Amsterdam, where I never actually spent that much time and just used an available spare bedroom in one of the shared company apartments when I was. Did I move to and "live" in Amsterdam? I don't even know.

 

[Oeshon]

I travel around 120-150ish days a year. It can vary, depend what I want to do and where I want to go.

Just got back from Cambodia a few weeks ago and heading down South Thailand in a week to kickback on some islands

 

[Doughbelly]

I know entrepreneurs who travel all the time but I'm convinced they are just fucking around half of the time with needless travel.

Depends where they're traveling to IMO.

Europe and the Americas, you're probably right.

Asia, it's almost a requirement that you fuck around with the people you're trying to establish a relationship with, especially in the Sinosphere. Things are changing now, but even 10-15 years ago, working with Chinese manufacturing meant a long series of meetings with several layers of middle-men even for the simplest things.

 

[GearSolidMetal]

How do you find the time to post? Please keep safe don't text and truck.

Oh please. We stop all the time for numerous reasons.