Airport workings

Traveling for work is anything but glamorous. There are early mornings, late nights, airport queues, dehydration, missed meals, flight delays, squatting to poop so you don't touch filthy airport toilets and sleepless nights in strange beds. The time passes in a blur of voicemail messages, frantic phone calls as you pass through immigration, taxi rides and hunched shoulders as you send "one last email" before boarding

Travelling for work comes at huge personal cost - sleep deprivation, weight gain (there's no space for a regular gym routine when you are on and off flights and operating in different time zones) and stress (think hair loss, big black bags under eyes and irritability). If you travel a lot, home time is not home time. It's unpacking, washing and repacking time. It's de-stressing time not relaxing time. It's where you have to put in a lot of effort to reconnect with friends and family,

Travelling for work strengthens or breaks relationships. Honestly though being away from home puts a strain on relationships, if they break, they probably would have broken eventually anyway.

The organisation (being the psychopath it is) largely fails to recognise this. The organisation sees it as a privilege to travel, like it's doing you a huge personal favour to "allow' you to not see family and friends and completely throw away any routine your life may have had.

But all this comes with opportunities to meet new people, see new places, dine on food you would not ordinarily eat and, if you are lucky to travel to multiple destinations, experience the world in a different way.