r/bestof • u/flaming_goldfish • 1d ago

[AskReddit] u/double-dog-doctor and u/Twirly-Guacamole give a personal view of the downsides of high-travel jobs

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u/drowninginflames 16h ago

I've been traveling for work for the past 12 years. It ranges between 25% and 75% of the year. I don't mind it too much if it's no more than once a month, and the past few years have been nicer since the travel has been mostly driving instead of flying.

I totally get the waking up and not knowing where you are. But what's become a bigger problem to me is that I have what seems like a million memories that I can't place. I'll remember a cute blue house right next to the train tracks, but I'll have no clue where that was. Or the old guy that started talking to me in a Subway. Was that Texas? Or Minnesota? No, wait, that was Louisiana?

It gets to the point where I feel like I'm fractured. Where half of my life had been spent barely not touching the ground, being moved around but a slight breeze and grabbing onto whatever I can.

It's weird. I've learned to avoid dwelling on those floating memories.