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str8line said:
Never paid attention at all to my sky miles but recently my wife blew my mind when she told me she is getting close to million-miler status(875,000) with Delta. We guesstimated that she's probably at around 1-1.2 million including other airlines, which means I'm probably at around 1.2-1.5 million. Trying to wrap my head around it, had no idea.
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Is that annually or life time?

I'm pretty sure I'm over a million miles life time, but not anywhere close to that annually. Luckily my current job I don't travel nearly as much as I used to.
 
str8line said:
That's lifetime. Can't imagine a million in a year.
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That's what I thought, but wasn't 100% sure. I'm guessing it's very difficult to rack up a million miles in a year, but there are probably international travelers who do that. For one of my jobs I traveled internationally every other month and had a couple hundred thousand miles in a year. I'm very glad I don't do that anymore.
 
SoberasHotRod said:
That's what I thought, but wasn't 100% sure. I'm guessing it's very difficult to rack up a million miles in a year, but there are probably international travelers who do that. For one of my jobs I traveled internationally every other month and had a couple hundred thousand miles in a year. I'm very glad I don't do that anymore.
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I built up about a million in a 4 year span there a while back. I felt like I was always on a plane. I totally came to understand the douchy guys that immediately pull out their laptops and type through the entire flight. I would download emails to my computer and answer them on the flight, then connect to WiFi and let them all send when I arrived, otherwise I lost too much work time and got behind. I do not envy those folks racking up over a million in a single year, or shorter. Cannot imagine how they get anything done.
 
LogGrad98 said:
I built up about a million in a 4 year span there a while back. I felt like I was always on a plane. I totally came to understand the douchy guys that immediately pull out their laptops and type through the entire flight. I would download emails to my computer and answer them on the flight, then connect to WiFi and let them all send when I arrived, otherwise I lost too much work time and got behind. I do not envy those folks racking up over a million in a single year, or shorter. Cannot imagine how they get anything done.
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Traveling for work is awful. I got to some cool places, but you don't really get to see them, so it's not that exciting. Like you said it's hard to keep on top of work when you are traveling, it's like taking PTO, but you don't get to be on vacation. Mostly I miss my family and feel like I'm letting them down by not being there, but I also get air sick and can't sleep in hotels. The only part of traveling for work I really enjoy is rental cars. I enjoy extended test drives of different vehicles.

I specifically left a job I really loved and had worked up to getting because I couldn't handle the international travel.
 
I just finished 6 weeks vacation. It was fun but I'm exhausted. I went from Ethiopia to Korea to Hawaii to Japan to China to Ethiopia.

Now I'm home today and moving to Cambodia in 5 months. Time to pack up and sell things from my house and travel to Cambodia to find a house. I'll probably rent for 6 months then buy something.
 
Ron Mexico said:
I just finished 6 weeks vacation. It was fun but I'm exhausted. I went from Ethiopia to Korea to Hawaii to Japan to China to Ethiopia.

Now I'm home today and moving to Cambodia in 5 months. Time to pack up and sell things from my house and travel to Cambodia to find a house. I'll probably rent for 6 months then buy something.
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Cambodia? Why?
 
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