Seems we have more than a few people on this board that travel a lot and post from all over the world. Seems to me for a young man, traveling and still being able to eat would be a pretty good deal. What jobs or studies or conditions let you world travel?
I could only do it in between jobs. While my last few jobs entailed a lot of travel, it was almost only intra-European. So I did my trips around the world in between jobs, one in 2003 and another one in 2010. As I am quite passionate about traveling, I also traveled to distant locations for vacation purposes in between, but these weren't trips around the world. If you are interested in finding tips and tricks on how to get the best offers and travel in most comfort, I would recommend www.flyertalk.com, where I learned quite a bit. You might even find some so-called "error fares" there, where you might get real bargains if you book quickly enough before an airline discovers that they accidentally put out a fare "too cheap". More often than not, they end up honoring these fares.
I am also interested in a job that involves travel, but it doesn't have to be throughout the world, just throughout the US is fine. What can I do with a general business degree?
I am off on a work trip to Korea Friday. I come home on 10/09 and then turn around and go on vacation to Shanghai and Hong Kong and then it is possible I will come home and turn around and go on a work trip to Brazil. The Korea trip just came up today or I could have planned that better. My work travels occurs when customers need my particular expertise. Not too often, but those that do in particular are in Australia, Korea and Brazil.
I work in consulting (majored in Finance and Econ from UT Austin), and get to travel pretty often for work. In the three years I've been working here, I've been on the road about 1/3 of the time. I wasn't necessarily jetting all over the world though, it was more so going to the same place week after week...which can get old pretty quick. I basically spent 7 months in Toronto, 6 weeks in San Francisco, and 5 weeks in Austin (flying home on the weekends). I lucked out by being on engagements in pretty cool places...it could just as easily been Omaha, Little Rock, and Buffalo (thank God it wasn't). The biggest perk is definitely the hotel points. In the 11 weeks I spent in SF and Austin, I racked up enough points for as many as 60 free nights at a lower tier Starwood hotel (or fewer nights at really nice Starwood hotels). These points can also be transferred to airline miles at a 1:1 ratio (on most any airline).
My dad is a doctor and went to a lot of conferences and consulting jobs around the world, so I traveled a ton as a kid. My uncle is a middle-management guy for a hair care conglomerate and he travels 5 days a week (only home on weekends) within the US and makes a trip a year to Europe. And he only has a high school degree. So I imagine at some level of a sales job you would travel a lot. There are also some cheap ways to travel the world. A cruise is one. You can get a week long or longer cruise all over the world (Mediterranean, Baltic region, east asia, etc.) They may sound expensive but they are not when you think about it. You can get a room for 800 bucks which includes room and board, plus food, plus tons of other stuff. The only extra expense you have is whatever you chose to spend in ports of call.
Wow! How you get a job like that with a bachelor's?? Nice gig my man! I am back in school working on the basics before going for a MS in Accounting. Everyone is telling me to focus on accounting and I could still do finance type jobs down the line. So I plan on taking as many accounting courses as I can! Others told me get a master's in Economics, but not sure if that is better than accounting on the job market or not.
My dad is a Petroleum Engineer, I've lived in some crazy and wicked places throughout my life. We got tickets from oil companies to fly 3 times a year to almost wherever we wanted, it was amazing, been to every country in Europe. I've seen so much at such a young age that now I don't appreciate things like I should. I graduated with an accounting degree, but just went back to school to do engineering. I'm hooked on wanting to be able to travel the world and work where I want.
I liked going to places but thank W/bin laden they have really ruined it for everyone. I hate the airport theatrics, I hate the long delays. But I like going places.
I am a corporate pilot sorta. I fly this one rich guy all over the place for his business. Its great. Been everywhere except Antarctica.
I travel abroad for work about once a month (for a law firm that has offices and clients all over the globe) and to NYC/Chicago about once every two weeks. Other than that, I go abroad for ten days. My cousin who works in consulting flies just about everywhere every week. I would not like that at all. It's exhausting and pretty soon you just dislike traveling in general.
I've been in the airline (mostly air freight) business over 20 years involved in sales, marketing and airline interline relationships. Been to all over Asia, Europe, South America, Middle East, Australia, etc. Before all of that, I had a year-long missionary stint in Africa that was truly life-changing. Next month, I'll be going to Ethiopia for the first time. New places are still exciting for me. It's been a blessing to see so much and experience many different cultures on an employer's dime. I wish everyone had the opportunity to travel overseas on a regular basis.
I've never been part of the corporate jet set. (and am jealous for it). But travelling as a young person who doesn't mind roughing it is simply a matter of doing it. It can be surprisingly cheap. Euro's and Aussie, who it seems travel for months at a time, know this. My 2 week summer jaunt to California and Disneyland this year cost more then a 2 month trip to India when I was younger.
When I've had business travel, it's been to places like Greenville, SC. Not too glamorous. But, I've been to Europe a lot. I have family in France and Switzerland, which makes it easy (just pay for transportation; room and board is covered). Soon, my Swiss connection will move to Australia, so I'll have a base camp on a new continent. Besides that, I have friends or family who live in (or have family who live in) many different places. So, it'll just be a matter of finding the time and the money for plane tickets.
