Comments on: Job Description: Travel

Question: Job Description: Travel

divabat — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 20:20:07 -0800

What jobs are out there that pay you to travel?

Not so much jobs that let you travel or has a major travel component (for instance, my cousin works in fund management and gets to travel a lot), but rather things where travelling is your job.

Ones I can think of: travel writer/journalist, travel TV show host, road staff for a student exchange program, UN ambassador.

Is there such a job that involves going here and there and exploring places?

By: frogan

frogan — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 20:23:52 -0800

U.S. State Department Diplomatic Courier
http://www.state.gov/m/ds/career/c8857.htm

By: smackfu

smackfu — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 20:27:59 -0800

Guided tour leader. Bus driver. Pilot. Stewardess.

By: duck

duck — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 20:30:38 -0800

Roadie...Air marshal...Truck Driver...Cruise ship anything... Container ship anything...Ferry Anything..

By: onalark

onalark — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 20:34:56 -0800

US military :-(

By: justgary

justgary — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 21:06:00 -0800

Nurses can travel and do pretty well financially.

By: BrandonAbell

BrandonAbell — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 22:18:46 -0800

Professors can travel for purposes related to their "academic work" and usually get reimbursed for it by their departments. So get your doctorate. :-)

By: junesix

junesix — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 23:27:52 -0800

Travelling and Exploring:
Movie/TV location scout
Adventure travel guide
On-location news reporter
Agent for musician/athlete
Photographer - National Geographic, world news
CIA handler

Travelling, not so much exploring:
Security detail for President
Safety inspector - food, drugs, aviation/airport, industrial/OSHA, environment, mine
Bank examiner
Food critic - Europe (Guide Michelin, GaultMillau; American food critics are geographically limited to their newspaper's reach)
International executive recruiter

By: nomis

nomis — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 03:02:55 -0800

Field worker in anthropology or similar field.

By: rongorongo

rongorongo — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 05:18:36 -0800

A third way is to have a career that lets you work for short spells with gaps and pays you well enough to travel in the interim. Teachers, contractors, medical locums, etc. Pure travelling jobs tend to have lousy pay so you could actually be better off with this route.

Consider also the international portability of a particular job: for example somebody qualified as a nurse, chef, electrician, etc could find it easier to get work abroad.

Finally consider academic jobs: vulcanologists, art historians, marine biologists, epidimeologists, etc. These people go on expeditions as part of their job. Have a look at some of the people speaking at London's Royal Geographical society for example and work out what they do.

By: adamvasco

adamvasco — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 07:20:06 -0800

What do you mean by travel?
International travel? or local area.
Travelling salesmen can cover a huge area depending on the size of their territory / area. It could be a state, a country, or a continent.

By: PurplePorpoise

PurplePorpoise — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 11:50:25 -0800

Travelling salesperson?

(ie., as a customer representative for, say, a biotechnology company that sells tools to science researchers in various fields)

By: fshgrl

fshgrl — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 14:20:25 -0800

Field work- surveyors, geologists, biologists, technicians.

Be warned: the thrill wears off pretty fast after the 10th time you break up with someone over it or come home and find your car was broken into and all your pipes have burst..

By: pencroft

pencroft — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 16:04:58 -0800

Consulting. Granted, you don't see a whole lot outside a conference room or cubicle. But, you build up the frequent flyer miles.

By: A dead Quaker

A dead Quaker — Sun, 29 Jan 2006 16:43:00 -0800

I know someone who helps to manage a touring dance troupe and travels all over the world with them. So, find a job with something that tours regularly.