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Most of my work assignments require me to be onsite for multiple weeks at a time....it's a condition of me taking the assignment that I take my wife with me and if there is an extended work function in the evening, I have the option to have her join us.
It cost me a marriage and a family to have extended absences and so I refuse to do it.
Usually the company offers me the option to fly home every few weeks, but between the fact that I hate airports, airplanes, border control, taxis, hotels and restaurants that option is usually not in my top 100,000 things to do.
I just tell them it is cheaper for them to NOT fly me home, offset with an adequate per diem to cover some sort of rental condo or similar.
Wife is extremely good about it, she just finds the local Chinese community and usually has a rip roaring time, plus, since we try to find accommodation close to the work site, I usually get hot lunches and if necessary a back and shoulder massage at lunch time.
D.
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