It's been almost a year and a half since I've written, so here I am to write about what I had experienced as a part of my job in the past year. My job is Marketing but above Marketing it's travelling. I even thought of this post whilst I was travelling.
When it comes to travelling, there are three types of people I know as to my knowledge:
1. The planned traveler : This is the person who when entering into the office, gets a call from his/her parents, the conversation being, "It's 20th August, the reservation for Diwali on November 22nd will begin today. Don't forget to book it". Yes a person who books his ticket in train for a travel 3 months prior to his travel.
2. The backpack traveler: Actually this is the person who travels for enjoying the travel itself. He has fun, visits new places, has a map in his hand and a backpack with trekking rope and shoes. Actually these are the gifted people to travel.
3. The instant traveler : This is the most cursed type. You enter into the office in morning and you get a call from your client, the conversation being, "Our CMD wants to meet you immediately, be here at 10.30 AM tomorrow", and there begins your turmoil to plan for the meeting next day while you complete the daily work piled up at office.
Me being the third category as my work demands me to travel around about 10 days a month. Though it sounds cool that I get travel to all parts of the country on a regular basis, read further to understand the delicate situation an instant traveler is put into.
PLANS??!! PLAN TO SPOIL :
I believe there is some strong connection between plans and travelling. If you are a person who needs to travel on short notice , then you better don't make any plans. I think making a plan with your friends or girlfriend will send some signals to your client to remember calling you. The moment you make a dinner reservation for the night or make Pakka plans for your friend's birthday party, the next call you will receive will be from your senior asking you pack your bag for the meeting tomorrow. It is always a walk on tight rope to make plans.
Try cancelling the dinner reservations made with your wife/girlfriend that night thinking that you'll need to travel that night, the meeting too will automatically get cancelled making you stay at home that night and ending up with plasters the next day.
RUN OUT OF WAYS TO SPEND TIME :
If you are travelling frequently, soon you'll run out of songs to listen, books to read or even movies to watch as you have already finished the recent series you bought as you didn't know what to do while travelling. Soon you'll end up staring at passer bys or the air hostess making it uncomfortable for anyone to cross your seat and become the weirdo on travel.
TRAVEL AT THE HIGHEST RATES :
One big problem if you plan for the night trip only during the afternoon is, you will find the ticket prices high as hell. The price of this ticket you saw three days ago has shot up to three times making you to crib about the ticket prices all along your travel.
TOURING AROUND THE CITY? AS IF THAT IS EVEN AN OPTION:
So I keep travelling frequently, and the first question I receive from anyone I meet is "That's cool, you get to visit the biggest tourist attractions frequently". Which makes me go furious. I have been to Delhi almost 6-7 times but I have seen only the India Gate once, that too when the taxi passed by it. Taj Mahal?? Who has two hours to travel when you even need to keep running inside the airport to catch your return flight.
GETTING A STABLE SLEEP :
Frequent travelling makes you sleep when there are rolling wheels under you so frequently that even when you sleep in your bedroom, you feel like travelling in a bus/train.
Okay there might be these much problems but still it is a cool thing to keep travelling as you will be able to meet new people every time and eat new dishes once in a while. There are also a few perks like catching a nap during the working hours, escaping calls through flight mode and getting to know which city has the best girls ( I'll write a detailed blog on that one later).!! .
Now time to take off. Dunno where I will end up being tomorrow, but sink in the moment.After all my job is just a representation of what life brings to us, a thrill and spoiling our plans and giving us better options.
Wish you all a happy Journey.
When it comes to travelling, there are three types of people I know as to my knowledge:1. The planned traveler : This is the person who when entering into the office, gets a call from his/her parents, the conversation being, "It's 20th August, the reservation for Diwali on November 22nd will begin today. Don't forget to book it". Yes a person who books his ticket in train for a travel 3 months prior to his travel.
2. The backpack traveler: Actually this is the person who travels for enjoying the travel itself. He has fun, visits new places, has a map in his hand and a backpack with trekking rope and shoes. Actually these are the gifted people to travel.
3. The instant traveler : This is the most cursed type. You enter into the office in morning and you get a call from your client, the conversation being, "Our CMD wants to meet you immediately, be here at 10.30 AM tomorrow", and there begins your turmoil to plan for the meeting next day while you complete the daily work piled up at office.
Me being the third category as my work demands me to travel around about 10 days a month. Though it sounds cool that I get travel to all parts of the country on a regular basis, read further to understand the delicate situation an instant traveler is put into.
PLANS??!! PLAN TO SPOIL :
I believe there is some strong connection between plans and travelling. If you are a person who needs to travel on short notice , then you better don't make any plans. I think making a plan with your friends or girlfriend will send some signals to your client to remember calling you. The moment you make a dinner reservation for the night or make Pakka plans for your friend's birthday party, the next call you will receive will be from your senior asking you pack your bag for the meeting tomorrow. It is always a walk on tight rope to make plans.
Try cancelling the dinner reservations made with your wife/girlfriend that night thinking that you'll need to travel that night, the meeting too will automatically get cancelled making you stay at home that night and ending up with plasters the next day.
RUN OUT OF WAYS TO SPEND TIME :
If you are travelling frequently, soon you'll run out of songs to listen, books to read or even movies to watch as you have already finished the recent series you bought as you didn't know what to do while travelling. Soon you'll end up staring at passer bys or the air hostess making it uncomfortable for anyone to cross your seat and become the weirdo on travel.
TRAVEL AT THE HIGHEST RATES :
One big problem if you plan for the night trip only during the afternoon is, you will find the ticket prices high as hell. The price of this ticket you saw three days ago has shot up to three times making you to crib about the ticket prices all along your travel.
TOURING AROUND THE CITY? AS IF THAT IS EVEN AN OPTION:
So I keep travelling frequently, and the first question I receive from anyone I meet is "That's cool, you get to visit the biggest tourist attractions frequently". Which makes me go furious. I have been to Delhi almost 6-7 times but I have seen only the India Gate once, that too when the taxi passed by it. Taj Mahal?? Who has two hours to travel when you even need to keep running inside the airport to catch your return flight.
GETTING A STABLE SLEEP :
Frequent travelling makes you sleep when there are rolling wheels under you so frequently that even when you sleep in your bedroom, you feel like travelling in a bus/train.
Okay there might be these much problems but still it is a cool thing to keep travelling as you will be able to meet new people every time and eat new dishes once in a while. There are also a few perks like catching a nap during the working hours, escaping calls through flight mode and getting to know which city has the best girls ( I'll write a detailed blog on that one later).!! .
Now time to take off. Dunno where I will end up being tomorrow, but sink in the moment.After all my job is just a representation of what life brings to us, a thrill and spoiling our plans and giving us better options.
Wish you all a happy Journey.
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