Originally Posted by
FredBiscuits
This bit, although I don't tend to go to nice places. They don't tend to build machines in nice places.
I hate going to restaurants by myself. Especially when I was regularly travelling to Czech Republic (not Prague). I'm guessing nobody eats alone there, because they would leave you sitting there all night without a menu if you let them, I assume because they think you are waiting for someone.
In that job, you had to get a hotel. I fought for years to be allowed rent an apartment with a kitchen (actually much cheaper than a hotel) but it was against company policy, and it was a big company who weren't for changing their worldwide policy.
Also, projects usually meant travelling to the same place multiple times, and the shine really goes off travelling then. I spent almost two years in Czech, when you count up the 1-2 week trips, 6 months in Singapore, Penang and Johor Bahru in Malaysia, and Neuchatel/Le Chaux-de-Fonds in Switzerland, and a fair amount of time in Germany, Canada, Florida. Never in the nice parts of them.
It's also something you get absolutely no sympathy for from anyone who doesn't travel for work. Everyone who hasn't done it seems to think they would love it.
They wouldn't.