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That feels like a dream job for a temporary amount of time. And very effective too. I assume the VFX studio is in Melbourne?

bronco21016 6y ago
Maybe if they’re flying first class? Otherwise that sounds like a nightmare that would require an insanely high paycheck.
- Raidion 6y ago
  If you're flying back and forth on that route that often, you're going to get upgraded quickly, I would imagine. I've done 6 flights a month domestic and have been upgraded to first class for free fairly often.
  - bronco21016 6y ago
    Depends on the rewards program I suppose. A US airline I’m familiar with does not upgrade frequent fliers on international flights.
    - disillusioned 6y ago
      You're allowed to say their name here.
- gruez 6y ago
  >Otherwise that sounds like a nightmare that would require an insanely high paycheck. If the courier in question is 6'2" that might be the case, but I suspect if the person was much smaller and is a heavy sleeper, that it wouldn't be too bad.
  - diveanon 6y ago
    He was a writer, and seemed to enjoy the job
  - bronco21016 6y ago
    As a person of 6’0” I found the flight from LAX to SYD, and return, miserable in coach. I slept a lot and watched some movies but any way you cut it that is a long time to be sitting in a very uncomfortable seat.
    - lostlogin 6y ago
      In the before times I flew Auckland to Doha over 20ish hours. I can’t believe anyone likes flying, every bit of it is awful. I’m 1.97m or so and it’s really not designed for me. I suspect it’s optimised for those at 1.6-1.7m.
      - 0x10c0fe11ce 6y ago
        1.75m here and coach sucks for me too. For that reason and social distancing I just bought a car that can drive me to places I’d usually fly, in much more comfort.
  - nine_k 6y ago
    It's an ideal job if all you need is hours of concentration, reading, and writing or drawing. A writer, a PhD student with a laptop, a comic book author, etc. Or, maybe, even a Zen monk who spends time meditating.
diveanon 6y ago
Yeah one location in LA and another in Melbourne so that we had 24 hour coverage.
dmix 6y ago
Only if it was before American TSA which sounds like it was. Now flying that much must suck cuz murcia. And you know real threats combined with gov agencies flailing about to pretend they are doing something about it. (Most of the stuff that worked had nothing to do with TSA adopted tech).
- diveanon 6y ago
  Frequent fliers are still a thing. Your post is ill informed FUD.
  - dmix 6y ago
    Still sounds like an awful job to me flying that much. Not sure why people said it was a good thing to do. You'd be bored of the process within a couple months and hating planes and airport... unless you're a certain type of person. A lot of traveling sales guys have talked about this.
jmnicolas 6y ago
Dream job to spend hours and hours in a plane? Then more hours clearing customs? Thanks but no thanks.
- kilroy123 6y ago
  But Americans going to Australia just pass through a computerized system. You don't even have to talk to anyone. I agree with OP, if this was a first class flight, it wouldn't be a bad gig.

bronco21016 6y ago

Maybe if they’re flying first class? Otherwise that sounds like a nightmare that would require an insanely high paycheck.

Raidion 6y ago
If you're flying back and forth on that route that often, you're going to get upgraded quickly, I would imagine. I've done 6 flights a month domestic and have been upgraded to first class for free fairly often.
- bronco21016 6y ago
  Depends on the rewards program I suppose. A US airline I’m familiar with does not upgrade frequent fliers on international flights.
  - disillusioned 6y ago
    You're allowed to say their name here.
gruez 6y ago
>Otherwise that sounds like a nightmare that would require an insanely high paycheck. If the courier in question is 6'2" that might be the case, but I suspect if the person was much smaller and is a heavy sleeper, that it wouldn't be too bad.
- diveanon 6y ago
  He was a writer, and seemed to enjoy the job
- bronco21016 6y ago
  As a person of 6’0” I found the flight from LAX to SYD, and return, miserable in coach. I slept a lot and watched some movies but any way you cut it that is a long time to be sitting in a very uncomfortable seat.
  - lostlogin 6y ago
    In the before times I flew Auckland to Doha over 20ish hours. I can’t believe anyone likes flying, every bit of it is awful. I’m 1.97m or so and it’s really not designed for me. I suspect it’s optimised for those at 1.6-1.7m.
    - 0x10c0fe11ce 6y ago
      1.75m here and coach sucks for me too. For that reason and social distancing I just bought a car that can drive me to places I’d usually fly, in much more comfort.
- nine_k 6y ago
  It's an ideal job if all you need is hours of concentration, reading, and writing or drawing. A writer, a PhD student with a laptop, a comic book author, etc. Or, maybe, even a Zen monk who spends time meditating.

diveanon 6y ago

Yeah one location in LA and another in Melbourne so that we had 24 hour coverage.

dmix 6y ago

Only if it was before American TSA which sounds like it was. Now flying that much must suck cuz murcia. And you know real threats combined with gov agencies flailing about to pretend they are doing something about it. (Most of the stuff that worked had nothing to do with TSA adopted tech).

diveanon 6y ago
Frequent fliers are still a thing. Your post is ill informed FUD.
- dmix 6y ago
  Still sounds like an awful job to me flying that much. Not sure why people said it was a good thing to do. You'd be bored of the process within a couple months and hating planes and airport... unless you're a certain type of person. A lot of traveling sales guys have talked about this.

jmnicolas 6y ago

Dream job to spend hours and hours in a plane? Then more hours clearing customs? Thanks but no thanks.

kilroy123 6y ago
But Americans going to Australia just pass through a computerized system. You don't even have to talk to anyone. I agree with OP, if this was a first class flight, it wouldn't be a bad gig.