# What's the furthest you've travelled for a job interview? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 5, 2009, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-furthest-youve-travelled-for-a-job-interview/484578 "2009-02-05T16:23:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-furthest-youve-travelled-for-a-job-interview/484578/21 "2009-02-06T00:32:16Z")
Denver to LA. Left Denver at some ungodly o’clock in the a.m. Returned to Denver on a 5 p.m. flight (meaning that I actually got home around 9 p.m.). The job was actually in Denver. It was just that the interview was in LA. ETA: Got the job, but should have declined. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-furthest-youve-travelled-for-a-job-interview/484578/22 "2009-02-06T00:34:11Z")
Schenectady to Ithaca, NY. I actually would have liked working at Cornell, but the salary wasn’t enough for me to uproot myself. They even asked me back for a second interview, but I declined. But the high point is that one of the interviewers had read my novel. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-furthest-youve-travelled-for-a-job-interview/484578/23 "2009-02-06T00:44:30Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Schenectady to Ithaca, NY. > > I actually would have liked working at Cornell, but the salary wasn’t enough for me to uproot myself. They even asked me back for a second interview, but I declined. Plus I hear that the cost of living is one of the highest in upstate (i.e. north of Poughkeepsie.) You must have taken that into consideration so I have to ask if that’s true, cause when my mom was looking for a place around there the prices were prohibitive for her but not that much more outrageous than a lot of other places seemed (this was a couple years ago, you see: I’d assume that housing in the Ithaca area probably hasn’t fallen as much as it has in other upstate cities, [but moreso than in the more rural areas.]) ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-furthest-youve-travelled-for-a-job-interview/484578/24 "2009-02-06T00:50:14Z")
NE OH toAZ - got the job AZ to Nashville, TN - didn’t get the job. Expenses paid in both instances. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-furthest-youve-travelled-for-a-job-interview/484578/25 "2009-02-06T03:29:28Z")
I interviewed for a job in Santa Clara, CA, when I was doing my residency at UF in Gainesville, FL. I didn’t get the job, but the highlight of the trip was a tour through the Winchester Mystery House. ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-furthest-youve-travelled-for-a-job-interview/484578/26 "2009-02-06T03:33:52Z")
I was living in Montreal when I interviewed for a job here in Maryland, near Baltimore. Got the job, and then had to wait almost 6 months for all my work visa mess to work itself out. But it was worth it. ---
**Author:** ![unclviny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e274bd/32.png) [@unclviny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unclviny)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-furthest-youve-travelled-for-a-job-interview/484578/27 "2009-02-06T04:04:31Z")
Houston, Texas to Harvey, Louisiana (basically New Orleans) for a 15 second interview, I (rudely) did not get the job and I was so pissed that he wasted my time that he had to call the Police and have me escorted off the property, apparently he was not interested in having his face rearranged (which I offered to do). Unclviny ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-furthest-youve-travelled-for-a-job-interview/484578/28 "2009-02-06T04:10:04Z")
From Baghdad to Jakarta. ---
**Author:** ![Precambrianmollusc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/precambrianmollusc/32/63_2.png) [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-furthest-youve-travelled-for-a-job-interview/484578/29 "2009-02-06T05:36:27Z")
Buenos Aires to Aberdeen Scotland (14 hrs to London - 1 hr to abz), got the job but couldn’t reconcile the loss of cow, wine and sun with the gain of interesting job, wind, rain and grey so stayed put. ---
**Author:** ![Desert\_Nomad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desert_nomad/32/177_2.png) [@Desert\_Nomad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desert_Nomad)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-furthest-youve-travelled-for-a-job-interview/484578/30 "2009-02-06T09:30:38Z")
> [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](#): > > Several years ago, when I lived in the UK, a friend of mine went for a job interview in Switzerland. That sounded pretty outlandish, but at least she managed to the whole thing in a day (but didn’t get the job, alas). > > I no longer live in the UK, I transplanted to Texas. This morning I found out that I have an interview for a new job. It’s in Abu Dhabi. That’s nine time zones or over 8,000 miles :eek: for a two hour interview. > > What’s your personal best? Good luck in Abu Dhabi - ever been there? It’s a lot less hectic than Dubai. ---
**Author:** ![Sierra\_Indigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Sierra\_Indigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sierra_Indigo)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-furthest-youve-travelled-for-a-job-interview/484578/31 "2009-02-06T09:48:20Z")
I’ve got an interview in Canberra on the 18/02. So that’s about 1100km. Luckily the job’s actually in Adelaide, I’ve just got to go to head office for the interview. But they’re flying me out and back. And giving me some cabcharge vouchers, so I’ve just got to get a taxi booked there and back 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![unclviny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e274bd/32.png) [@unclviny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unclviny)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-furthest-youve-travelled-for-a-job-interview/484578/32 "2009-02-06T10:36:11Z")
> [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](#): > > snip… > I no longer live in the UK, I transplanted to Texas. This morning I found out that I have an interview for a new job. It’s in Abu Dhabi. That’s nine time zones or over 8,000 miles :eek: for a two hour interview. > What’s your personal best? Good luck, I still preach the “Dextrin Principle” regularly at work (“keep throwing stuff at the wall until something sticks”). Unclviny ---
**Author:** ![Fake\_Tales\_of\_San\_Francisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8491ac/32.png) [@Fake\_Tales\_of\_San\_Francisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fake_Tales_of_San_Francisco)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-furthest-youve-travelled-for-a-job-interview/484578/33 "2009-02-06T12:52:05Z")
Well, it must be around 10,500 miles. From the UK (call it from Manchester airport) to Australia (Melbourne). Granted, I was already planning on moving to Australia, so it wasn’t just for a job interview, but we had a date, time and place set weeks before I left, so it might count. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-furthest-youve-travelled-for-a-job-interview/484578/34 "2009-02-06T14:11:01Z")
I got asked to fly from Boston to Atlanta for a job interview with Delta (I think, it was a long time ago). So much time had passed since first applying for the job, though, that I’d already found something else and turned them down. When I applied for my first job in Tokyo, I did about 3 500-mile round trips on my own dime. ---
**Author:** ![Desert\_Nomad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desert_nomad/32/177_2.png) [@Desert\_Nomad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desert_Nomad)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-furthest-youve-travelled-for-a-job-interview/484578/35 "2009-02-06T17:15:56Z")
Not for a job, but I flew 5500 miles for a doctor appointment. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-furthest-youve-travelled-for-a-job-interview/484578/36 "2009-02-06T17:46:25Z")
I’ve never travelled for more than an hour, but my dad once flew from London to Zurich for the first interview and straight from there to Muscat, Oman for the second. Total distance travelled: 3,750 miles (one way). ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-furthest-youve-travelled-for-a-job-interview/484578/37 "2009-02-06T19:43:25Z")
Austin, Texas to Omaha, Nebraska ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-furthest-youve-travelled-for-a-job-interview/484578/38 "2009-02-06T19:51:54Z")
North Carolina to Bulgaria. Second place would be North Carolina to Walla Walla, Washington, which took almost as long. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-furthest-youve-travelled-for-a-job-interview/484578.md?page=1)