Traveling

The stress of corporate traveling.
Introduction
I started traveling about sixteen years ago with a small company, the requirements for that position was 100% travel around North America. After five years of that kind of travel, I found I was burnt out from the stress of the job and needed a change. I left that company to work for another company who did not require any travel. Not having to travel was a blessing since it gave me the opportunity to be with my family. It took about four years before I had to leave because of corporate downsizing and acquisitions of our other companies. A meeting was held last week with my team regarding the amount of travel our team was doing. The statistics that have been collected over the past two years indicate that my group does a considerable amount of business travel. Nearly 80% is the average amount of time we travel to customer sites to perform our jobs. Our job description states that we would normally be trav...