Career Advice: The Top 8 Best Travel Jobs
If you want a stable job with predictable income, you would go for the first kind. Here at career advice, we shall look for some options from both categories in a list for travelling job:
- Flight Attendant:
In this role you might able to travel various destinations, depending on the airline. How much time you would get to explore those locations that are a different thing. The Bureau of Labor Statistics mentions that median wage of flight attendants is $48,500.
The bad news is that, projections reveal that there is slower-than-average job growth in future.
- Commercial Airline Pilot:
If you wish to spend two- or three-day stays in cities around the country or the world, but want a better pay check than a flight attendant, then the career advice is that you need to learn to fly. You can apply for airlines that have routes services, where you wish to go.
The median wage for airline pilots is $105,720 and future job prospective would remain the same.
- Geologist:
Being a geologist for an oil company, you can travel extensively, around the world where there are oil mines. Similar is true for mining companies. You could be finding gold in Brazil a month and copper in China for the next.
According to the BLS the geoscientists get a median annual wage of $89,780.
- TEFL Teacher:
Teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL) gives opportunity to travel to several destinations, but for longer stays. The standard qualification you would need is a TEFL certificate, which you can earn through online training.
- Cruise Ship Jobs:
If you love the oceans around the world, then get a job in the cruise ship. Below mentioned are a few positions that you can apply for according to CruiseShipJob.com:
Clergy
Casino dealer
Entertainment director
Bartender
Retail clerk
Dance host
Hairdresser
Lecturer
Cook
There are so many cruise locations than you could imagine. The qualifications and salary varies by positions applied for. You can find jobs posted on CruiseShipJob.com and other general job websites.
- Truck Driver:
The hours would be long and traveling would be lonely, but as a trucker, you can see the country. The median wage for tractor-trailer truck drivers is $41,340 per year, but that can rise as there is presently shortage of truck drivers. The career advice is that you must be passionate about driving and should be comfortable with solitude.
- Peace Corps Volunteer:
With a desire to travel to foreign lands and help people there, you can join the Peace Corps. You usually register for two years contact and spend the time in one location, and while doing that you can see the place and its neighboring areas.
This is a volunteering job and you get paid and benefits, and also good for your resume.
- Travel Nurse:
How could be that you are working in a health-care unit and also getting a chance to travel to various destinations? To mention, nurses are perhaps the most in-demand for traveling positions.
These jobs are really enjoyable and profitable :) My dream is Flight Attendant :)
So why don't you become a flight attendant?
Probably because of the high barriers to entry like building up a network in the industry, managing time well/crushing interviews during recruiting season, being a woman or gay man. There's a reason most grads have to settle for IBD or consulting
Besides looking at the country you travel to consider the specific location you end up at. A Geologist might get to travel to Australia but you won't be sightseeing in Sydney. You'll be on a massive campus built in the Australian outback and spent most if not all of your free time there. Glencore has a mine near Singleton, NSW, Australia - no offence to anyone from there but I mean....check it out. Picture staying 2-3 months there then doing the same thing in another country.
Flight attendant? Truck driver? I think we can do better than that.
Surprised to see no mention of military.
Military has (in many cases) the same issues as the Geologist I mentioned and you travel the world in dangerous places. I agree that Truck Driver isn't ideal but flight attendant is. You fly to nice destinations, stay in great hotels and due to unions in big European airlines you get a stable salary and are hard to fire. If consistency is what you want, it isn't a bad gig.
Military really depends. Navy, perhaps. OPTEMO right now has slowed down a lot. This isn't 2005-2011 anymore where even National Guard/Reserve units were being deployed on a regular basis. It's not unheard of now for Soldiers to go through one whole PCS cycle without a deployment, so I'd assume Marines and Air Force are similar. Navy is a bit different because of the nature of their work.
These are medium-to-low wage jobs. Unless your company is paying for everything and you're investing all your money for 10 years into income-producing investments, I don't see the appeal. I'd rather just build a life where I'm financially independent relatively young and go wherever I want with family and friends.
Or you could go into consulting. Who doesn't enjoy Mon-Thu travel to Poughkeepsie every week?
*Personally, I'll choose to be a flight attendant. *I love traveling and meeting people from other places. You will gain a lot of experiences especially if you are single.
From what I've heard it seems travelling for your work gets old pretty fast
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