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Resume of a Frequent Traveler

Guest post by: Carol Margolis

Article Overview: I often get asked about what it takes to be a frequent business traveler. Packing your suitcase, spending four nights a week in a hotel, and navigating through the TSA lines are all part of the grind, but they just begin to scratch the surface of what is involved with weekly travel. This Resume of a Frequent Traveler outlines what it really takes to survive the road warrior lifestyle.

Resume of a Frequent Traveler

Ever wonder how the skills learned from travel could help qualify you for a new career? Here’s a idea of the myriad of skills that we travelers have.

Objective:Looking for a first-class leadership position where I can utilize my well-rounded skills learned as a frequent flier.

Experience:Have flown on countless flights, both coach and first class. Have slept in an incalculable number of beds, mostly alone. Have driven a myriad of cars, primarily on the right-hand side of the road. 1985-present.

Skills:

Flexible:

• Able to maneuver a suitcase, laptop bag and coat into a tiny airport bathroom stall in seconds!

• Can figure out all the buttons and knobs in a rental car faster than a speeding bullet.

• Able to sleep just about anywhere — on a plane, on a rental car bus, on a airport chapel pew.

Can-Do Attitude:

• Expert at finding the last open space in a plane’s overhead bins for luggage. There is always room for one more bag!

• Go-getter in finding the least expensive airfares and hotel rates.

• Determined to accrue air miles or hotel points for every purchase made.

• Tenacious in filling 3 oz. bottles with favorite shampoo and conditioner.

Team Player:

• Gets out of the aisle quickly upon boarding to allow fellow passengers to get to their seats.

• Follows the rules for arm-rest sharing in coach class.

• Helps window-seat passengers pass the trash to flight attendants.

• Never slams back seat back into knees of passenger in next row; shares the precious few inches equally.

Prepared:

• Has enough food, reading material and music to survive several hours on the tarmac.

• Always has ID, credit card and boarding pass ready for quick entry into airline lounges.

• Ready to unload laptop, liquids, shoes and jacket into plastic bins to keep the security line moving.

• Always has $1’s and $5’s for tipping maids, porters, bell desk.

Communicator:

• Knows how to ask for a better seat or a better room.

• Always friendly to gate agents, security, hotel and car rental personnel.

• Skilled at asking parents to have their kids stop kicking the airline seat in front of them.

Organized:

• Expert at selecting a week’s worth of clothes, coordinating jewelry and shoes in 15 minutes or less and get it all in one carry-one bag.

• Maintains an up-to-date accounting of air miles, hotel points, car rental awards, credit card points.

Works Well Independently:

• Comfortable eating alone in a restaurant

• Can drive through cities and towns for hours on end with only a GPS for companionship.

Intelligent:

• Knows the signs of a slow moving security line and is sometimes smart enough to avert it.

• Understands what the ‘ding-ding’ near the end of the flight indicates.

• Can whip out the perfect credit card for the situation to get the best award points.

• Knows to look for where the little arrow is pointing on a rental car’s fuel gauge before pulling up to a gas pump.

Tech Savvy:

• Expert on the best iPhone and Blackberry apps for travel

• Can Skype across the world

• Expert at online banking, online check-in and online everything.

Hobbies: Staying home. Enjoying time with family and friends. Reading a great book that doesn’t have a ‘boarding pass’ bookmark.

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