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Your pace sounds exhausting, that stinks. The big lesson I learned was if the engagement was on a Monday morning, and I had to fly Sunday, that needs to be ref
by exabrial 4y ago
Your pace sounds exhausting, that stinks.
The big lesson I learned was if the engagement was on a Monday morning, and I had to fly Sunday, that needs to be reflected in compensation somehow. I was forcefully adamant that I flew during the week only without structured and logged PTO compensation.
The other company I worked for had no issues with me booking longer stays past the engagement as long as I covered expenses for those. That gave me a day or two in most places and I could hit highlights.
- kjs3 4y agoI guess I didn't explain well enough. I got/get paid (well) for everything I did work related. Leave Sunday for Monday meetings? Client paid from the time I left my house. Travel outside work hours during week (the redeye)? Client paid. Work crazy hours because something went nonlinear on-site? Client paid, alot. Never work for free. But that always means my personal plans are secondary to the work requirements. Those 'bookend' weekends I took when I could so I could actually see things? Obviously on my dime, though every company I've worked with was good enough to let me book the hotel/plane tix at the company rate (my regular place in the middle of Dublin is something like 300 Euros a night normally but I think 120 at corporate rate). Good times! But really that 1-2 days you eek out of opportunity and corporate kindness is nice enough to get a taste of things (and recommended)...but not really enough to get what I'm looking for any more out of distant, otherwise very unpleasant travel, especially crammed into the margins of a business trip.