The Courier
This job sounds pretty nice. I mean the problem I have with it is that I would rather get a couple hours in Los Angeles to go explore. I mean basically you are a truck driver who travels for 10 hours a day. The other portion is that there is no job satisfaction in this job at all.
You are delivery boy for a CEO but you have no impact in any shape or form. However, it would be an opportunity to change the CEO's mind is nice. He needs to see you at least 5 minutes a day. You can make these 5 minutes either cordial talking about the weather and last nights game or you can talk about the direction of the company.
The other issue is there is no vacation time. I mean I would imagine I'm getting all sorts of miles for a trip from New York to LA. Do I commit for 3 years and then take an awesome basically free vacation somewhere with all the airline miles? I mean that would make for an excellent vacation to somewhere in Europe.
My diet would immediately go in a funk. Since you are taken to the office and back to the airport that means you MUST eat airport food. This food is not healthy and it definitely will not have variety. How would one subsist on fast food and not even real fast food shortened airport menu fast food. I really would need to investigate the LAX airport shops to see the diversity in food.
I would start a relationship with the flight attendants which would be nice. They always seem rushed and perturbed because they are trying to control 200+ people, but I imagine once they see you for the 5th time that week they would adjust and treat you like you understood the rules.
Also you have 10 hours a day to do whatever you want. That is a lot of time for reading or writing. I could write the next great American novel. But you have been reading this blog that wouldn't happen. I wouldn't take the job.
More opportunity there than might appear on the surface. Especially if one thinks of it not as an airplane seat, but a non-traditional office. A lot of business or education or creative thought can take place while planted in 17D.
ReplyDeleteFood in terminals has greatly improved since 9/11 and health conscious road warriors pack their own from home, anyway. Tack on a couple of hundred for airline club dues and it can be almost civilized.
Of course, the whole fly-cross-country-for-5-minutes-unsuccessfully-trying-to-convince-the-time-starved-CEO bit does sound all too much like the world of business development for high ticket consulting. And that was a pain.
Gary