[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Recon Number 54 I work as a consultant for an international IT corporation's healthcare division. Home is in SE Florida (for now) and I spend most of my week away from my wife, my family, my dogs and my friends. Hotels, hospitals, airports, and rental cars. Tonight I am in Palm Springs, CA. It was 105 degrees today. You think that you have a long commute to work? 9+ hours and 2,000+ miles for me just to get to work. Getting home is even more fun. My average "weekend" is <24 hours to unpack, repack, say "hello" to my wife, pet the dogs, and take a nap. It sounds like I am -blam!-ing doesn't it? I shouldn't and I am not. It's a damned interesting and challenging job. As long as the hotel has broadband and the airport has wireless access, I am good to go. My wife deserves a medal though.[/quote] I guarentee I've had worse "jobs" my first was at my first therapeutic boarding school...I had to work on the hottest place on earth at the time digging with pick axes in extremely rocky soil a 6 foot trench for 3 miles. my second was in a warehouse my hours were from four am (wake up drive to get there), starts at 7 am to 4:30 pm...with one thirty minute lunch break. the temperatures in the warehouse were over one hundred degrees and noone spoke english but me. I'm -blam!-ing! [Edited on 5/25/2005]