15 March 2006

Grounded

Doing tax calculations reveals not only how increasingly ill-paid this business can be, but just how much travel is necessary even to earn a modest income.

In 2005 I spent the following numbers of nights away from home:

Antarctica and Argentina 16
Australia 16
Canada and Canadian Arctic 13
China 42
Hong Kong 10
Saint-Pierre et Miquelon 3
Spain 10
UK 37

Plus 6 nights in flight (out of 42 flights taken).

That's 153 nights away from home on business. Five months on the road.

And right now I'm looking at piles of mouldering receipts in ten different currencies and three different scripts, all of which have to be made into some kind of presentable order, translated into English, and converted into local currency for my accountant by Friday.

O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!
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