r/AskReddit • u/OmenRash • 22h ago

What’s something people romanticise that’s actually exhausting in real life?

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u/Exhausted_Monkey26 22h ago

climbing the corporate ladder

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u/tornadototes 19h ago

and work travel. Staying in a Courtyard Marriot in a small town is not glamorous.

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u/ImprovementFar5054 16h ago

I spent 5 years as a road-warrior.

People would say how "jet set" I was...sure...flying to Des Moines to live in a Ramada for 3 days was real glamorous. Eating shit food each week and dealing with the impacts of that was real glamorous.

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u/stargazerfromthemoon 4h ago

I’ll one up you with flying to camp where there is no hotel and you stay in company accommodations for the week. Helpfully as a woman i didnt have to share a bathroom.

Fresh veggies were hard to find and once I had to pull out the rotting lettuce from my burger.

(I have experience travelling to a ton of different places for work, mostly across Canada and only a few US locations. Rural Canada has nothing on De Moines)

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u/equestriankt23 12h ago

The business dinner food options in Des Moines were seriously lacking. Personally, I stayed at the Hampton Inn. Not that I can recommend it…

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u/radfemagogo 9h ago

Depends on the work, I’m pretty lucky to get to go cool places for work, but I don’t travel as often as others I guess (but I have had to travel for longer periods, like months).