Is working in the travel industry attractive? I see initiatives to convey that message in an affirmative way. Logically, our sector also needs talented recruits. But that doesn’t answer the question… Let’s be very honest with each other here. First of all, it is of the utmost importance to marry under a prenuptial agreement. You know why. Unless the partner also works in the travel industry, then there is a minimal chance of growing old together. No, in fact, the reason your first marriage ends may just become the second. Better understanding of the working hours, no PFJ (Panicked Famtrip Jealousy) and no envy for all those beautiful trips. It’s also just, well, somewhat painful, when your partner flies Business Class to Dubai to party at the Four Seasons’ private beach club for 15 euros a beer… and then make a fuss about the price of your healthy sandwich at the gas station, in a genderless Skoda Kodiaq on the road to that sweltering family campsite 25 minutes’ walk from the sea. ‘
Couldn’t you have made lunch?” Yup Is that attractive? Well, eventually, yes. But there’s more, unfortunately. You become, almost imperceptibly, a super-yup. Not a problem, as long as you leave it for home, and not in the shadow of NRB’ers (Non-ReisBranchers). Examples? Acquaintances spent the whole day enjoying a festive dinner and that you want to spice up the conversation per course, from travel experience. ‘You know what’s only delicious on the snack board: Bunderfleish! Do you know that? Or Corsican Lonzu, nomnom… In Bologna, the truffles are truly otherworldly… the Daube Provençale was delicious Anja, but I know a place in the old port of Marseille…’ After the first time, you wisely keep your mouth shut, but mind you, not a word of it is a lie. Once you have eaten authentic Lebanese, Thai, Indian, Mexican and French at the location, you are forever doomed to suffer culinary delights in the Netherlands. Ditto anecdotes. No chance at the NRB. That someone starts talking about a nice incident at IKEA, and the whole table laughs along: hahaha, meatballs, haha, Billy, haha, parking disc, hahaha. And then you have a good story that one time in the Aztec stadium in Mexico City, with those stray goats, tacos and that wrestler. ‘He does, the asshole‘ Anyway, you don’t get rich and you sometimes miss a birthday. So, is working in the travel industry attractive? The answer is extremely simple. If you have to think about it for more than five seconds, then you have no business being there.
