Do People Regret Working Too Hard at Life's End?

[Ivan Seeking]

Ivan's right. Life on the road sucks. You can be pulling in really great money, but if you have to live in motels in podunk towns and try to search out diners and truck-stops with food marginally better than fast-food, that gets old fast. Still, I did mill-work for 10 years as a process chemist, and as a lead papermaker. Lots of troubleshooting, so those jobs weren't brain-numbing like my college summer jobs on production lines in veneer mills.

Turbo, I usually had the best hotels, the best food, first-class flights, classy rental cars, and white hat treatment at all plants, and it was still as close to hell as I've ever been.

It doesn't matter if your room cost $60 or $300, living on the road is a very hard and lonely life. And in the end, even $300 hotel rooms are just stinking hotel rooms!

 

[Ivan Seeking]

...although I must say, while in the end nothing else matters much, flying first class does actually help a bit. Those cramped seats in coach add to the travel fatigue.

 

[turbo]

It doesn't matter if your room cost $60 or $300, living on the road is a very hard and lonely life. And in the end, even $300 hotel rooms are just stinking hotel rooms!

Yep. And if the high point of your day is an evening phone call to your spouse, and you have to keep working into the night, it can be a really sad life.