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23 Jobs with Travel – the ultimate list of travel jobs (that will take you around the world)

Jeremy B
23 travel jobs and travel careers to take you around the world

Are you looking for jobs that allow you to travel? A career that will take around the world? Keep reading, as I’ve assembled the ultimate list of jobs with travel. In this report you will find a list of both travel careers and travel jobs that will allow you to travel on a regular basis – usually on the company’s dime and not yours.

Specifically we will examine:

Travel Jobs – Explained

I’ve divided this list of jobs with travel into two categories for easy consumption. First, we have careers with travel. If you are looking to find a long term job that you can turn into a career this is the list for you. For example, a professional salesperson is a career that likely includes travel.

By the way…one of our fellow bloggers in the BoardingArea.com network, the folks over at Coworkaholic.com posted a new travel intern job. Check out all the details here, but it sounds like a great opportunity. 

The second category of travel jobs are just that: jobs. A job is not a career. It’s simply a j-o-b. If a professional salesperson is a career, a guest service operator for a cruise ship is a job. It’s likely something you will do for a while, see the world, have some incredible adventures, and then you will settle into a career. More on this later.

So if you have a passion for travel. A desire to see the world, or even just see more of your country, then keep reading as you will likely find several great careers or jobs with travel that are right up your alley.

Careers with Regular Travel – aka a Travel Career

There are many careers with travel where regular travel is incorporated into your ongoing duties.  Many are even open to entry level candidates, while some tend to be more suited to employees with a few more years of experience under their belt. Whatever stage you are at in your employment history, there’s like several careers with travel that can be both lucrative and fulfilling.

Here are a few careers with travel:

  1. Sales 
  2. Become a Technical Sales Engineer 
  3. Consulting Career
  4. Become a Project Manager
  5. Become an Installation Engineer
  6. An “Executive” 

Sales – a great travel career

Sales remains a top contender for jobs with travel. If you can sell something, you can make a lot of money, and unless you are selling cars or work retail sales, it’s likely  you will be traveling.

At my company, for example, sales people cover their assigned territories or geographies. We have a Western US sales team which has reps that cover 2-3 states in their assigned territory. Their job is to be in front of customers every day of the week and that means they are on the road.

It’s a mix of air travel and driving. Of course, there are regular conferences and trade shows they must attend too. Their sales manager supports those reps across the entire territory. A career in sales is not only lucrative (if you are good at it), but very fulfilling – and it can take you on the road! Sometimes as much as 75% of the year!

And as a sales rep you will likely get to stay in decent digs…like Hilton’s or Marriotts.

If you are looking for a career in sales, you might find this influential sales book interesting as you start your journey.

Become a Technical Sales Engineer

Each of those sales reps I mentioned in the previous section likely has an assigned technical sales engineer that often accompanies the sales rep on their journeys. They assist with demonstrations of products, answer technical questions, and support trade show setup and tear down. If you are a techie who’s good in front of customers and is looking for careers with travel, a technical sales engineering role might be the perfect fit for you.

Consulting

Consultants use your watch to tell you what time it is. Or so a crusty old executive I once worked for told me. All joking aside, consulting can be a very rewarding career for those who like to “fix” problems.

As a consultant not only will you travel pretty extensively (I was on the road about 90% of the time – all over the USA), but you will find yourself involved in all kinds of different projects and problems and with unique clients.

I once had a client in the State of New Mexico that had me traipsing all over that great state doing cyber security audits as part of our consulting contract. I tasted some delicious food in Santa Fe, saw Balloons during their annual balloon fest, visited some great Breaking Bad set locations, and visited the Zuni Indian reservation where I stayed in a hotel that was out of the back of the local grocery store (you can read that story here in Obscure places (Part 1) I’ve traveled for business (or Magic City, Monk Fudge & Zuni, NM) ). What an experience!

Typically, the best consultants are those who’ve been there and done it and thus have the experience (or “quals” as we call it) to be credible with the customer. However, many large consulting firms like Boston Consulting and Gartner hire fresh-out-of-school consultants in analyst type roles. You will be placed on a team of consultants and get to do the grunt work. But it can still be very rewarding.

If you are looking for a serious travel job, then perhaps consulting is for you!

Become a Project Manager

The world is desperately in need of organized people. And project managers – especially good ones – are just that. The robots may take our jobs, but they will never automate project managers! haha. Although………

In all seriousness, Project Management is not only a credible and lucrative vocation, it’s also a job that in the right domain can involve a good deal of travel. For example, at company’s I’ve worked at, our project managers were responsible for coordinating the implementation of large systems at our customers sites.

These multi-month, complex projects required them to travel to the customer’s locations for many weeks at a time. And they usually managed multiple projects. They were some of the busy road warriors our company had.

Now, it’s worth noting that not all project managers travel. We have some internal Project Managers who never set foot in an airport. They are software development project managers, responsible for managing internal development of solutions.

The people and projects they matter are inside the four walls. And while they may still occasionally travel (e.g. to a conference of large meeting somewhere), they are largely NOT on the road.

So be careful with this field, but if you can find the right domain to apply your clever organizational skills, Project Management can be a wonderful field that also includes decent travel!

PS…if you become a project manager you likely need to get the PMP cert. Here’s a good study guide. 

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Become an Installation Engineer

Someone has to turn the wrenches. Often, projects needs engineers who travel the customer’s location to install and configured systems. My company has a cadre of people we call “field engineers” who travel every week to a new location. Their job is to rack and stack our systems for customers and then to configure, test and cut them over to live production systems.

I’ve a friend who works for a laser eye surgery equipment manufacturer. His team of installation engineers travel the country each week installing new laser eye repair systems.

If you are technical in nature and don’t mind getting your hands dirty, a career as an installation engineer could be a very rewarding travel job. One downside to this travel job is that you often have to bring tools with you — tools that you likely cannot carry on to the plane. That means you are violating the Number 1 Travel Hack of All Time – and checking bags (like this cool Pelican hardcase luggage for tool kits). This means you will travel a bit slower than the rest of us – but that’s not the end of the world.

An “Executive” – definitely a job that will allow you to travel (probably more than you want!)

This is what I do. The “big boss” as they say. LOL…

An executive (aka Sr. Manager) these days is going to spend a LOT of time on the road. Yes, we use Skype and Hangouts and conference calls, but a seasoned exec will spend more time in airport lounges and Hilton’s then he or she does in his home town. That’s just the way of the world.

You can be an executive in just about any field. Maybe it’s tech like me. Or sales. Or maybe operations. Whatever the role or vocation, an executive is a great career for those who want to travel.

Speaking of the executive life, this book about executive presence has been a game changer for me. Worth a look!

And here’s an interesting video about how to find an executive job:

Other interesting Careers with travel

There are quite a few other careers with travel, but I simply couldn’t go into them in great detail. I did, however, provide some of them for you:

What careers with regular travel did we miss? Join the conversation by leaving us a comment or hit us up on Twitter. And if you take the route landing on a Career with Travel, get yourself educated by learning some of the important travel hacks and travel tips that anyone who travels for work needs to know.

Jobs with Travel – let’s talk about some J-O-B-s

Sometimes a full blown career doesn’t make sense, and you just want (or need) a job. There’s nothing wrong with taking a job at any point in your life and for any reason.

Frankly, if you are at a point in your life where taking a job is something you can do, I recommend it. And by can do I mean you don’t have a family or substantive bills that require a more substantive lifestyle. I know many people with full blown careers that wish they could take a simpler job, but that mortgage and those auto loans simply won’t allow it.

Here is a list of jobs with travel:

So there you have it. As you can tell there is no shortage of jobs with travel. Whatever or wherever you are in your life, if travel is important to you, you can likely find a job with travel that suits your fancy. And maybe it turns into a full blown travel career! Or maybe just a J-O-B! A travel job…

Final thoughts on Travel Jobs & Travel Careers – what did we miss?

So, what did we miss? What amazing travel job or travel career did we omit? What jobs that allow you to travel interest you? Maybe a career move? Let us know. Drop a comment, below!

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