it’s hard to get away from the corporate world when you’re always smack dab in the middle of it.
am not sure how that reflects on my person and pre-occupations when i get excited about a new online magazine targeted at business geeks such as myself.
funnily enough, i saw a blog discussing business travel, and an entry addressing the fact that it’s gone drastically down, hotels are having problems with occupancy rates etc.
but i do feel that i can get a bit more detailed than that, and might still pursue this topic for the final project.
there are a couple of reasons. i know a lot of people who are affected by this personally, myself included. this past year i’ve traveled more than usual – both personally and for work. flew to the states 3 times, went to thailand and indonesia, and have done countless little trips around europe, it seems. not to mention driving around for hours and hours to visit friends and attend weddings.
a couple of weeks ago i sighed a relief when my flight to london got bumped 2 hours. i made the executive decision to not fly and waste unnecessary fuel and (my personal) energy only to attend a meeting, which by the time of my arrival, would’ve already been well in progress, only to get back in the taxi to get back to the airport to get back to munich a few hours later. so i went to the office instead. i realized then just how much i started to dread airports. this coming from me, a travel enthusiast.
i was talking to another friend of mine who flies off to other parts of europe at least once a week, and she has developed a dislike to traveling too. there is the packing, unpacking, late nights with colleagues, early starts to catch up on e-mails. business travel is a modern day malaise.
my fiance, quoting a german magazine article, says ‘the ‘eroticization of the job, and objectification of relationships’ is ‘the’ modern day malaise. that’s the subject of an entirely different article. or book.
as i write, i’m sitting in one of the conference rooms of a hotel near frankfurt where our firm is holding an event. this morning i flew in here from munich, of course. and tomorrow evening, i will fly back home. such is life of a corporate drone.
