It’s amazing at how good you can feel when you are removed from daily routine. It’s crazy that you can still be working at the same job, maybe even doing the same things but in a different place and have it feel like a vacation. Sometimes it’s just nice to see and experience new things. Sometimes it’s just nice not to go to the same building on the same roads that you go to every day. It’s really nice when you get to meet new people and do new things, and not worry about what is happening back at your real job site. It’s almost like a paid vacation, even though you’re working the whole time.
Sometimes it is nice to be removed, but there are the challenges when you do start to wonder what is happening since you’re not where you normally are….is there something major that you’ll have to catch up on when you get back? will something new need to be done before you get back, or right after? will there be some new policy or another that you will be completely clueless on? will some type of training happen and you’ll miss out? Luckily, I think that most of us can honestly say that we’re not going to worry about it until we get back, but there always seems to be that one person who can’t help themselves. They have to check their email and voicemails every hour or they feel lost and start to panic imagining the worse case scenarios in their head.
I think it’s nice to be treated differently, have new experience with people you probably would never have met other wise. Meeting new people can always be interesting…generally it only goes one of two ways, either you get a long or you don’t….on very rare occasions (unless you have a certain type of personality) it can really just be a neutral, not one way or the other kind of experience.
Sometimes being away can make you miss what you normally have…sometimes it’s good to get away so you don’t get burnt out on what you do every day….sometimes though it can have the opposite affect and make you want to stay away….I’m glad my experience has been like a paid vacation and I think I’ll be happy to go back to my daily routine…just enough of a break to want to go back and see what’s goingo n and what happened while I was away.
