2012: Long Term Evolution (LTE) or Long Term Travel ( LTT)

Flying back on the evening of 24^th December,2012,  may sound exciting.

 The joy of Christmas may let your forget all the worries of the travel.

However, this time it’s a partial joy of flying back home (Dallas for now) for Christmas.

The excitement calls to the end of a productive year of teaching and travel.

Lets take a look at the stats.

Number of platform days  = 188 days

Total days in the year = 365 days

Prob. = 0.51 ,

This means on any given second day , I was teaching .

 more than 50% of the time.

An average class duration is 8 hours.

 8/24 = 0.333. More or less, I was spending one third of my time.

 Teaching or training . If I include 2 hours wasting in traffic everyday

8 hours for proper sleep . I have 6 hours left behind. These 6 hours

 include the time to catch up and prepare for next days and relax.

 includes  eating schedule as well. 

This estimation boils it down to the pretty much 24 hours covered.

Question is ? Why to discuss this ? What did I learn from all this

  or just taught  with straight face?

My first class this year covered North America virtually J.

First three days of the class in Canada, last two days in United States.

From there on started the avalanche of distance classes.

 January, was spend in delivering distance classes online.

Feburary, brought a breath of fresh air with internal classes ,mixed

 with distance classes and to wrap up the month, went to see the beautiful DC

 Area and Sprint big offices in Reston,VA.

March madness was filled with trips to Kentucky and welcoming

spirits of the red necks from country side. To top the schedule 

 with digestible schedule I got some better AIPP classes.

April , was fun , from North Carolina to Seattle, LTE was everywhere

From Verizon to Blue grass, from Ericsson to ACS Alaska. Everyone wanted

 To learn about LTE J

May , brought the advent to hot season. To cool off, I was fortunate

 to spend the weeks in Seattle, accompanied by trip to DC and KY.

In short road warrior percentage for May was 75%

I have never been to MO, just heard of it. The month of June brought

with it the joy of visiting MO + having some adventure at the airport.

J, off course, rest of the month was mixed by distance learning.

July was a month to relax and focus on DL for two weeks only, followed

By the fully packed DL month of August.

September brought a trip to Iowa and rest of the month was usual

 DL classes to T-Mobile.

How can travelling fun end, without including sunny California in the picture.

 October brought a trip to LA ,followed by DL classes.

November was pretty slow and just delivered one class to internals.

December was fun , reached the end of the year with trip to San Francisco

Followed by Hartford, CT ( Metro PCS). Learned some tough lessons from

 corporate diplomacy as exercised by individuals.

However, now when I look back , the whole year flew by L.

Off-course, I have learned a lot of new experiences, professional

 exposure, met some failures, faced some harsh realities, came to know some

 dirty politics . 

 In order to earn a living and make both ends meet I had to place

 personal goals on the back burners.

Question still remains un-answered. How to tackle all this ??

 Having described all the travelling and teaching in a nut shell.

 At the end of day, my regret and thirst still remains there, for a vision.

 The vision to focus more on my school. Get my two  year old pending research paper

published and graduate with flying colors.

Amen.