I travel a lot for my job. The travel tends to be cyclical; sometimes I'll be home for a month at a time and then be gone for 3 weeks (coming home on weekends). Over the past year I probably averaged somewhere between 50% and 70 travel.
I don't like the travel. I really want to stay home, be with my family, and have a life. But my job is the only income I have right now and the travel comes along with the paycheck.
Anyway, this past week I was out-of-town, working at a customer site. Because I have so much reading to do, I packed 3 big books in my suit case. I figured I'd get a lot of reading done since my family wasn't around.
Right. I only opened one of the books. I did finish the reading in that book, so it was worth it. But I found it very hard to read while on this trip. I'm going to have to find some way of motivating myself to read during my travels; otherwise I'll never get my homework done.
The problem is that I come back to my hotel room tired from the day. I think I should eat something, so I either go out to dinner or have something delivered to my room. Then I eat too much and I come back to my room and I'm too tired to study effectively.
Then I decide to surf the web for a few minutes in order to focus myself. Yeah, right. Suddenly it's 11:30 and if I don't get to sleep soon I'll be tired all day tomorrow. Then it's 12:30 and I'm finally shutting down my laptop. And I never opened my books.
The solution might be to simply skip dinner. Or exercise in the evenings. Both would probably be great for me physically, emotionally, and educationally. I'll keep you posted.
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I agree--skip dinner and exercise! I like to exercise in the morning, but I don't even do that on the road. Studying at night would be greatly facilitated by a lighter meal in the evening...but don't forget to treat yourself once in a while.
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