It doesn’t matter whether I am in New York or in some small town, it doesn’t matter whether I am going to stay there for a day or for a week — each trip is unique. It’s an incredible opportunity to see the world with your own eyes. But now I understand that if I am feeling bad, I won’t make myself go outside and will simply stay in the room despite a strong wish to go for a walk. However, in the first year of work I wanted to see everything. No sleep for 2 days? It’s ok — I am ready to walk 10 miles on foot in a new city.

Here are the answers to the most frequent questions about business trips:

All accommodation and meals are paid for by the company.
We stay in various hotels: from the ones which we want to leave as soon as possible, to the ones with perfect conditions that we don’t want to leave, even to go sightseeing.
Most often we either sleep or walk — everything depends on our mood. However, we pay for all of the extra excursions and entertainment by ourselves. When I just started to work, I wanted to try everything so I could spend more money on the trip than I earned for it.

It was worth going from Irkutsk to Lake Baikal and covering 45 miles to see that endless turquoise ice. I would probably never have visited some of such places without having this job. If I get a chance to go to the seaside for at least one day, I go there and really soak everything in. Your environment changes so often that everything looks nice to you — gloomy Moscow or sunny Spain — I look at everything with delight.

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