Jobs For People Who Want to Work and Travel

Filed in archive Misc. on March 31, 2008

I recently taught a travel seminar for the employees at CNN in Atlanta. The seminar topic was about traveling the world on a budget. It proved successful, with a lot of feedback and interaction between the employees. However, afterwards, I not only fielded questions about specific destinations, but how they too can they travel the world. A few days ago, Abha Malpani of Vagablogging did me a favor by answering this question. In her post, she names a few jobs for people who desire to work and travel.

Some of the jobs with which people travel a lot as listed in the comment thread are interesting career options and not obvious choices. They include a large variety of both high and low paid jobs, as well as high and low profile jobs - here are some of the rarer options:

Being a courier for a security company: Apparently this job gives you priority travel arrangements, privileged seating and prompt customs clearance.

A croupier on a cruise-liner: Hmmm.

A 'free-trader': You travel to countries and buy products that are cheaper there than in your country; you sell those products as a business and travel accordingly.

An air marshal: I had to look up what that was exactly.

Just do a 'wealth creation course' and travel for life: Huh? Lea, maybe you could enlighten us on these courses? :)

Being a diplomat, foreign correspondent, working in the logistics industry, in the international business sector, and as a trainer in an international company were other common responses.