Re: A new Lotus experience, going slow.
Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2022 1:37 pm
ericbushby wrote:After doing 46 years as a travelling service engineer at 30,000 miles a year covering Scotland, Northern England and the Midlands, going slow is not easy for me.
Interesting Eric; I'm also a traveling service engineer though I haven't been at it as long and I travel the USA, but comparable mileage. Being in such a huge country, sometimes I fly before driving and still pile on the miles. Did that this week in fact: fly from home near Atlanta to Long Beach near Los Angeles, see two customers there then drive to another in Phoenix, then another in New Mexico then fly home. I've also flown to Virginia or Miami then hit several along the drive back to home. During the eraly days of Covid my employer had me avoiding aeroplanes and that resulted in very long drives to places like Kansas City or Chicago.
This kind of work suits me well, as from the earliest age I've been a natural road-tripper. I spend more time traveling than doing the actual work of the job. Keeping it between the lines and listening to the radio beats being chained to a desk anytime, anywhere.
What do you work on? For me it's analytical instruments used for quality-control in the plastics & polymers industry.