Job suggestions for where you get to travel a lot
Does anyone have any suggestions for finance jobs where you get to travel a lot? The more the better, it would be interesting to see if there are jobs where you get to travel once a month, but that probably doesn't exist.
Has anyone transitioned from a finance-related job to a career where you get to do a lot of travel?
high velocity M&A corp-dev roles at pe portcos. but you travel to the middle of nowhere and frankly it is not a role worth taking if you want to be an investor. it's a corporate job with a very limited set of exits.
Sales roles in S&T.
Although realistically if you're in the US, you're just travelling to the US most often...
And honestly, travelling is not a perk. Especially nowadays, with the alternative being a Zoom meeting, you are pressured to be using as much of your travel time as possible for work. It's not a sightseeing tour. Much of the time will be spent in offices, hotels, and the back of cabs, rushing around.
It's a different case if you're on secondment or on client site like maybe in consulting but again, you're not necessarily travelling to the most exciting places.
fuck business travel in the ass with no lube man, it's so overrated
the better gig would be work that allows you enough time and money to travel whenever you want
in my line of work I can travel when I want (I'm my own boss and have unlimited vacation), but you can also get it if you're in a nichey part of finance that doesn't require 24/7 attention and maybe your income is super lumpy but you have more freedom
Agree wholeheartedly with the above. Biz travel is fun the first couple times, maybe even the first 1-2yrs and then gets real old real fast
esp if it’s domestic, I’m even kinda bored of intl travel by this point for work. Would rather do personal on my own time
Agreed. Sounds cool until you’re flying out at 5:45am and will be in diligence meetings all day, only to have one somewhat nice dinner in some armpit city, just to fly back at 8am the next morning.
yup, and when you realize that every steakhouse and nice restaurant in the country doesn't hold a candle to some 25 euro/pax dinner in trastevere, you realize you don't want business travel, you just want to see cool shit
sure, people should do it to advance their career, but that's it. this point was driven home to me when on a flight back from dallas or denver or some shit the stewardess announced that someone was reaching million miler status. the dude stands up and while he feigned a smile, had nice clothes on, it just looked sad. he was out of shape, looked inflamed from probably too much alcohol, seed oils & sitting and not enough movement
I then did some quick math, assuming someone's 60% travel, that's 30 weeks a year of travel (52 weeks in a year - 2 weeks for vacation). assume 1,000 miles per flight, 2 flights a week (because road warriors will inevitably live in a hub like atlanta, chicago, charlotte, dallas, nyc), that's 60,000 miles a year, meaning this guy had this pace for at least 16 years. if he did in fact travel for 30 weeks a year for 16 years, he missed 9-10 years of home life. I imagine he has children, missing 9-10 years of ANYone's life, let alone your own flesh and blood is huge and not worth any amount of money
but hey, at least he gets free checked bags for life
There's still plenty of institutional business development, relationship management, product/strategist roles that travel quite a bit alongside others mentioned. I've actually been surprised by some of the roles I've seen out there, putting in 25% or more travel time - especially as T&E budgets come under more and more scrutiny, especially with Zoom alternatives. Consultants still probably far outweigh most roles - but most of the people I know are over it, burned out, or at the point where their family is taking priority. Just beware - there's also plenty of 'travel' roles, where the travel becomes a three hour car ride into rural wherever - not the 'up in the air' fantasy of George Clooney, that's for sure.
It's worth doing early on, while you can, and see how it suits you. I have traveled quite a bit for work - it's fun, exciting, and then eventually it's pretty inconvenient. I'll caveat this in that I am a huge extrovert, so it's less of a 'pain' as I do enjoy conferences, events, dinners, etc. - but it just wears you out over time once you have commitments and a life wherever you are.
My advice for when you do get a travel role - get good luggage, simplify what you wear, keep yourself in as good of shape as possible, and establish some sort of 'routine' to help you sleep/keep it together on the road. Buy/earn access wherever you can - CLEAR, Pre-check, status on airlines/hotels, etc. Anything to make your life somewhat easier is better - and worth it.
So you're referring to Big 4 management consulting when you say consultants travel right?
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Wasn't much of 'Up in the Air' in random Midwest / sleepy cities?
Clooney glamorized it but I imagine most viewers of the movie found his travel iternary to be miserable.
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