Living Out of A Suitcase

I have clocked over 50,000 air miles in the last 5 months.  If only they could be accredited under the same airline loyalty programme, I could well be flying free to Mexico, you know.  

I am not alone in this.  I mean, this is no surprise for a few of my friends and my sister who all work in consultancies.  The difference between me and them - I have been travelling for leisure, life is sweet but I earn peanuts.  Theirs - life is gruelling, bitter sweet but they earn tonnes. 

Their typical week starts before dawn on Monday with a rush to the airport and a flight to wherever their client is based.  They would then spend the majority of the week indoors gorging on minibar snacks and glumly texting their distant lover.   Add 18 hours weekdays plus 6 hours weekends will just about make their week fulfilled.  

For those bright young things out there (and the not-so-young ones) who are always worried that you haven't done enough work, not enough to pay for your mortgages and a decent grub - please - think again and get a life (and some sleep would help too) because any smarties would know working oneself to death in order to keep up and not having any time to enjoy the fruits of one's work isn't really success.  It is merely obsession.  

For the attention-seekers - if you think nobody really cares if you are alive or dead apart from your boss, how about trying to miss a couple of mortgage payments, you will then have the bank looking for you too!   

And for the rest of us who are perfectly normal, let's rejoice and muse with this inspiring quote.  

As for me, after a nice little career break, I am exhilarated to be back on a corporate payroll again!   Yes I am.