I've worked at a company that operated like this. It's great if the company is the only thing going in your life, and that's how you like it. It's not great if you want to take a night class, or have a regular volunteer obligation (I was a math tutor) or play on an after work sports team, or are in an amateur orchestra, or have a regular fitness training regimen, or are dating, or have a garden, or a dog, or simply don't like living in hotels. For me, the end result was having a life not unlike George Clooney's in "Up in The Air."
Edit: it's actually quite similar to a management consultant's schedule. Except instead of Bangkok, you end up in Houston.
Consulting is far more brutal. Out Monday, back Friday, every week, unless you're between projects. On the upside, you do get weekends off. On the downside, you'll spend all weekend either sleeping or doing chores.
I did get to go to some cool places as a consultant, but the truth is, airports, taxis, meeting rooms and hotels are the same everywhere in the world. Having great colleagues is a must, there are some good times to be had. But you can't live like that for more than a few years without going crazy.
One competitor company of ours would enter a new territory by renting a nice house in that country and a few people from other offices would all go live there. Like MTV's The Real World. They would be the nucleus and the rest of the office would be made up of traveling consultants and local hires.
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I've worked at a company that operated like this. It's great if the company is the only thing going in your life, and that's how you like it. It's not great if you want to take a night class, or have a regular volunteer obligation (I was a math tutor) or play on an after work sports team, or are in an amateur orchestra, or have a regular fitness training regimen, or are dating, or have a garden, or a dog, or simply don't like living in hotels. For me, the end result was having a life not unlike George Clooney's in "Up in The Air."
Edit: it's actually quite similar to a management consultant's schedule. Except instead of Bangkok, you end up in Houston.
Consulting is far more brutal. Out Monday, back Friday, every week, unless you're between projects. On the upside, you do get weekends off. On the downside, you'll spend all weekend either sleeping or doing chores.
I did get to go to some cool places as a consultant, but the truth is, airports, taxis, meeting rooms and hotels are the same everywhere in the world. Having great colleagues is a must, there are some good times to be had. But you can't live like that for more than a few years without going crazy.
One competitor company of ours would enter a new territory by renting a nice house in that country and a few people from other offices would all go live there. Like MTV's The Real World. They would be the nucleus and the rest of the office would be made up of traveling consultants and local hires.
Houston? You're damn lucky if you end up in Houston! More likely you're in Ames, Iowa or Ft. Wayne, Indiana.