Corporate jobs often have travel requirements

I've mentioned this before, but let me take a minute to remind all our reminders that most corporate jobs require some type of travel. Of course there are exceptions, but the travel may be to customer/client meetings, medical specialty society conferences, meetings with collaborators, and meetings with affiliated partners. In short, expect to do some travel. Jobs with major biopharma companies will almost certainly require travel - even international travel. In general, the average practicing doctor doesn't do much work-related travel. You may take a week to attend a major CME conference like a specialty society conference. Unless you do a lot of professional speaking, you probably don't spend much time at airports or hotels. Life changes when you have to travel frequently. Living out of a suitcase and sleeping in hotel rooms may fit the lifestyle of some, but many others will do everything they can to minimize time away from their families. Here are a handful of travel tips that I've learned over the years: 1. Men - when you go through TSA security checkpoints, remember to take off your shoes and your belt. Yes, your belt. I often use the smooth end of my belt as a shoehorn so that I can put my shoes back on quickly. Someone should invent a belt where the tip doubles as a shoehorn. 2. Carry an electrical outlet splitter so that you can share that sacred outlet at the airport when you need to recharge your electronics. The outlet splitter may also be handy if your hotel...
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