...it's not all fun and games, you know.
As you may or may not know, my teams are spread across the globe; currently they're based in London, Woking, Buenos Aires and Bangalore. Some of the London and Buenos Aires positions rotate in that the guys come to the UK for 3-6 months at a time for training and building relationships with the other operational, development, business and management teams and go back to Buenos Aires again. Thing is, there are a lot of them and the time it would take for all of them to rotate through a UK position would be of the order of years. That, plus the fact that things are just Different out in Argentina and there are various strategy communications and processes to train the guys on, means that I need to go out there to visit.
Thing is, I have a lot to do while I'm there. So I'm going to be there for 2.5 weeks. This is not amusing. 22 hours approximate door-to-door travel time and 2.5 weeks in a country, by myself, where I don't speak the language. Oh and the flights are every other day in each direction, so if something happens that my flight is cancelled on the way back I'll be delayed by at least 2 days. Let's just say I wouldn't choose to do this unless I really needed to.
