When I was in my teens I saw an opinion piece in a local newspaper that essentially said that since some people get to travel for work (to other countries or even continents), that should be treated as taxable benefit.
Even then I knew that to be really ignorant position. Since then I've developed opinion on travel general, not just work travel: The only bad part with travelling is the actual travel part.
I haven't seen any hints of transporters (of Star Trek fame) becoming viable form of travel any time soon, so I have to resort to lesser methods when travelling is needed for work. And occasionally I need to travel by air. Now, I don't think airport security in Europe has delved as deeply into field of total theatrical insanity as on the other side of the pond, but still it's a chore. Once they even wanted to take my damn sunglasses out from my backbag and their soft carrycase to be X-rayed again, only separately. I really can't see any point in that, but I digress here ...
As luggage sometimes is lost, I try to pack as much of the absolutely necessary equipment in my hand luggage so if it is lost, there's no one other to blame than myself. Lost luggage can really ruin your day if the equipment urgently needed was there - and you're in, say, London while your luggege was last seen in Abu Dhabi. And you have only day or two scheduled for the job.
Fortunately stuff I need doesn't include anything banned from planes, like knives, chemicals and such. Then again, often I do carry around both packaged electronic devices and various makeshift looking things. For example something like this;
This is nothing but optical isolator with some passives around it for input filtering and current limiting. Completely harmless. Yet whenever you see a bomb denonator in films or television series they always look something like this.
And I fear that some day, some security person will want to take a closer look at my equipment and cause some serious -- shall we say -- inconvenience...
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