Title. About a 3 hour flight from office and plan to go in once a week via same day flights. Anyone do something similar who can share experience? TC 280k YOE 7
Yes. You can do that at Intel during normal days.
Are you talking 6 hours door to door both ways or more like 10 hours? Those just don’t sound sustainable to me. Maybe consider going once every two weeks with an overnight.
Door to door both ways prob around 8-10 hours. Maybe I’ll do an overnight every other week. Can’t go in every 2 weeks unfortunately.
Every other week is every 2 weeks..
You'll get to know flight crews, everyone in the lounge, TSA agents, etc. You'll hit multiple weeks in a row with delays. You'll always have a spare outfit in your travel bag. Those days will be more like 12+ hours. You can do it if you learn to disconnect.
Thanks, this was what I was looking for. How long did you do it for?
I travel 3 times a month right now. Sometimes those are out and back.
How does this arrangement workout? Does the company pay for your flights and stay?
Such waste of money
It’s actually much cheaper than renting a 300 sq ft studio apartment in the city sadly. Saving over $1000/month.
1,000 a month savings isn’t worth this hassle imo. 5k a month sure.
The other option would be to leetcode and gtfo.
It’s a good job with a good company. Really happy here so far. That can be hard to find.
SouthWest offered this to me. I considered it, but then realized the time to the airport, cost of parking, eating airport food and cost to travele to the office, commute home was not worth the hassle.
I've done something similar, not daily but 2-3 trips a month. One flight was 45 mins between two east coast cities, I'd fly around 8am in the morning on Tuesdays, and most weeks back around 6pm on Wednesdays. One night at a hotel, two full days in the office. This flight was operated as a shuttle, basically 2 per hour back and forth constantly all day. Did it for about 3 years 2 or 3 weeks a month. The other time was about 2 hour flight. Similar schedule but the flights were less frequent so less options. Did it for about 5 years, maybe average 3 weeks out of 4. In both of these I'd occasionally do a same day trip, but it's just not really viable for most air travel. Even with airline status and the like, security lines, arriving early getting to and through the airport adds considerable time to the flight. Honestly it eventually began to suck. I really got into a routine with it, so some of the things that are irritating kind of went away. I got to the point where I stayed in the same hotel, always had a bag packed, etc. But, I'd say that 25-30% of the flights were delayed or messed up in some way, and before you know it you have some important meeting on one end and so you have to take the 5am flight, or you miss the flight home. These things are exhausting and are practically guaranteed to happen when you just want to get home, or be somewhere important. It's not the worst, and for a good job, with good people, you can do it, but it can really start to get in the way of your life and take a toll on your health/happiness. Personally, I'd say that if you can do something like 1 trip a month for 3 days that's a lot better than weekly, but only you will know what works for you.
Thanks for the insight, really helpful. I like my job right now so I hope this arrangement doesn’t make me resentful of it. Right now the schedule (1 day in office a week) is non-negotiable but hoping to eventually get to a point where I can just do 1 longer trip every month.
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Sounds like a quick way to burn out and waste a day unless you’re spending the night once a week too.