I’m leaving today for a business trip to London. This is only my third time there, so the novelty hasn’t worn off yet, but I know it eventually will. But for now I’m excited even though I’m going to miss Miles and Lindsey a lot.
I talk a lot with Lindsey about “going global”. Basically, at my company if I want to advance any further than where I am now I need to take on global responsibility for something, which in turn means traveling a lot more and staying gone for longer periods of time.
I just can’t manage to do that right now, which is pretty frustrating. I’ve never been in a situation before where I knew what I had to do to move ahead, but wasn’t willing to do it. Grrr.
When I left college I didn’t pursue the lucrative and probably very interesting positions in consulting firms because I didn’t want to travel. I hope all careers don’t end up at a point where I have to travel to advance, but I’m starting to think maybe they do.
