My 12-month trip is in 4.5 months, and already I'm feeling like "Senioritis" at my job.

Part of the problem is that we were originally going to leave this month, so I had my head in that mode, then we had a big delay, so I feel like I should be outta here but now it's so far away!

There's a quote from Kramer on Seinfeld when he goes to California that pretty much describes it, "In my mind, I'm already gone..."

The job I worked before I went on my 5-month trip was really dull. Call center work. I pretty much checked out mentally about a week after I started. I worked there for a year to save up my travel funds.

But I'm 3 weeks away from a 1-week trip, I'm pretty much already there in my head, and have been for a week. So only having a 1:3 ratio (check-out time to trip time) is much better than my current 4:1.

LOL this is a great question. I love the "senioritis" analogy. I totally had this, but never really thought about it. I was at my last job for 2 years, and I probably checked out once I bought my ticket, which was like 5 months before I left. Let's just say that my performance wasn't as excellent as it used to be when I was a SUPERSTAR.