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Back at it myself - flying to Chicago today out of Sac - due back Saturday night.......

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Really? What airline?

Mine comes out the minute I board and take my seat LOL

Hawaiian. I am the same way. Bose and IPad out watching movie or listening to music to escape the non regular travelers and calm my life a little In the middle of the chaos.
 

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Back at it myself - flying to Chicago today out of Sac - due back Saturday night.......

Me too. But I am going back to Havasu for a few weeks. So that is a good thing!!!! Whooo hoooo!!!!
 

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Customer travel requests are picking up. Have 6 customer visits in the next 3 weeks.
That said, I have told 3 sales reps this week, if your only allocating 30 minutes for my session, I will not be attending in person.
 

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Customer travel requests are picking up. Have 6 customer visits in the next 3 weeks.
That said, I have told 3 sales reps this week, if your only allocating 30 minutes for my session, I will not be attending in person.

How does your deal work?

Are you a manufacturers rep?

Are the sales poeple your direct guys, dealers?
 

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How does your deal work?

Are you a manufacturers rep?

Are the sales poeple your direct guys, dealers?

I am a sales engineer (software demos) for a software company.
Sales rep are direct guys, no VAR’s.
 

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I am a sales engineer (software demos) for a software company.
Sales rep are direct guys, no VAR’s.

so you book your own time vs the sales guys booking you if you get to decide where you will and wont go.

DO you report up to a sales manager? Or engineering?

What kind of software?
 

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so you book your own time vs the sales guys booking you if you get to decide where you will and wont go.

DO you report up to a sales manager? Or engineering?

What kind of software?
The sales rep confirms the meetings with customers, then the sales engineers have to figure out how to present all the features that meet customer requirements in the time allocated. In some cases, we get 30 minutes, but have 2 hours of content to show the customer.

I report into the VP Sales Engineering North America Applications who reports to the SVP North America Application Sales. The reporting structure is separate for sales and sales engineers (SE’s don’t carry a quota).

Software = financial management and my specialty is financial and regulatory compliance
 
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Yeah, sitting on the 5:55 to Phx. Guess we need hydraulic fluid topped off before we go. 😬

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Never fails. Why wait to top off before taking off? Pretty sure that plane has been sitting all night.

I just hope we are not behind. Have only 45 min connection in ATL. That’s going to be close.
 
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Flying out of Cabo you are not supposed to either.....
I flew to Cabo last week on southwest. No masks needed on the flight but Mexico is still masking they made us put them on after deplaning. Also had to wear one st the supermarket
 
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Never fails. Why wait to top off before taking off? Pretty sure that plane has been sitting all night.

I just hope we are not behind. Have only 45 min connection in ATL. That’s going to be close.
Yeah, absolutely crazy that they waited until the morning. There were a ton of people scrambling at 5:15ish. I figured something was up but they didn’t say anything until we boarded.

No gloom in Phoenix though. 👍
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Yeah, absolutely crazy that they waited until the morning. There were a ton of people scrambling at 5:15ish. I figured something was up but they didn’t say anything until we boarded.

No gloom in Phoenix though. 👍
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Flying Ontario to PHX, will not help you if you flip to CA non-resident, AZ resident for taxes in 2022 :)
Huge red flag if you are audited. Round trip departures starting in other states with the stop in CA support the flip so much easier.
 
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Heading home tonight from Detroit via Phx to SNA

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Singapore AL still has RT fares around $900 to Bang Cock.
 

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First customer business trip requiring a flight. Had a couple internal and partner meetings, but this is the first where I need to be somewhere by a certain time.

Made it to the SD airport to find out I have a misconnection. Delta automatically rebooked me on the first flight tomorrow from ATL to Baton Rouge, but I will be spending tonight at the ATL Airport Gateway Marriott.

Was missing customer travel, but already over it :)
 

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Had a nice flight back to LAX. My seat mates slept most of the way…

 

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Felt safe on my flight back to Vegas. 50% of the passengers were masked up…

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Charleston this week - nice town
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Flew to Oakland Monday left with a stomach flu Wednesday morning. 😬. Mask signs still up everywhere. Way more people walking/driving around with them on than So. Cal.
Place is nicer from far away.
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Embassy Suites in Atl. Not nearly as nice. Didn’t miss this town much.

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WTH is up with the outfits?😳

Honestly I wasn’t sure if they were actors because it’s a historic hotel or people that were dressed up for some other reason?
 
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Started the week in Denver finishing tomorrow from Tampa …

Corporate fun - Thursday night football.



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Who’s traveling the fist week of the new year?

Im flying to PA now for a 1/2 day tomorrow then to Green Bay for 1 full day and back home Friday.
 
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Boss cancelled this week’s trip last weekend. 👍. Phoenix next week. Hawaii the following. I’ve skipped a couple quarters so the days will be even longer than normal but at least it’ll be warm. I hope.
 

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Vegas tomorrow for CES. But i'm driving instead of flying this time. I'm sure I'll be heading east in the next couple weeks though to visit customers.
I’m there in March and have to drive. Not looking forward to it and would rather fly.
 

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Wife and I are headed to New Orleans in February for an Orgill Hardware Market. I may go off my diet a bit :)
 

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My first EV car rental, In fact my first 100% EV ever driven.

Wasn’t that bad, beside worrying that I was going to run out of juice. Lol

Love the feel when you step on it, still believe its more of a novelty.
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Well slight tweak to my "first trip of the year...

It turns out I've been invited to speak in San Diego at one of my clients National Sales Meeting - They will be on Coronado at the hotel del Coronado.

I'll be doing the last talk of the day, right before they go to a function at the officers club where Top Gun was filmed.

Monday January 9th - time to come up with some military pep talk motivational stuff...

Maybe we can weave this one in to my talk... I always loved this scene!


 

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Not sure why I follow this thread. but I do.

What do you guys do that you have to travel so much? What field are you in?
 
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