What jobs allow you to travel a lot?

[Anonymous]

I am jealous of people who get to regularly fly business class and visit places like London, Tokyo, etc. What jobs allow you to do that? How do you get them?

[Anonymous]

It's not glamorous at all. Sorry to tell you

[Anonymous]

Business travel blows.

[Anonymous]

Yep. It is brutal. Flying that much is hard on your body, for every “glamorous” trip I’ve been on, I’ve spent 2x the nights in a Fairfield Inn that backs up to the freeway, and I’m busy from 7am-9pm while all of my other work piles up… while my husband holds down the fort at home with our kids and his FT job.

The points are nice, I’ll give you that.

[Anonymous]

International: pilot, stewardess, ship captain, travel agent, military.

Domestic: truck driver, train engineer, salesman.

[Anonymous]

The only good thing about my son's work travel is that he can book it himself and then get reimbursed by his company so he earns points. That's it. He rarely sees outside of the convention centers where he is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am jealous of people who get to regularly fly business class and visit places like London, Tokyo, etc. What jobs allow you to do that? How do you get them?

Everyone I know who does this says it gets old and stops being enjoyable very, very quickly.

[Anonymous]

but in the movies you get to hook up with out of town APs!!!

[Anonymous]

Not exactly what you're asking about, but DH is a radiologist and industry standard is 8+ weeks of vacation. We have been to Paris. Hawaii, and Barcelona for work conferences for him. We could have gone to more but I don't get as much vacation as he does, grandparents have slowed down with babysitting, and he does not like to go alone.

[Anonymous]

Marketing and Sales. My kid is flying to several World Cup Cities, taking clients to games in the Box, then dinner. She is also doing Watch Parties and such.

But even at 26 burnt out. She has been on multiple trips this summer already.

[Anonymous]

It's great . . . if you like flying Dubai to New York (14 hours) going to a meeting and turning around that same day and flying back. Or spending the night if you're lucky. You miss a day too. Just disappears!

Or Singapore to South Africa or London. Same thing.

[Anonymous]

No company is going to fly you in business unless you're a VP or at least a director. The majority of people flying in business are using their own points for upgrades.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No company is going to fly you in business unless you're a VP or at least a director. The majority of people flying in business are using their own points for upgrades.

Depends. Transatlantic will be business. Domestic cross country no.

[Anonymous]

My brother is in fundraising/development. Travels extensively will th upgrades. Family is able to travel very well with points

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's not glamorous at all. Sorry to tell you

I did that at one point. Outsiders think it is wonderful, but my trips were painful. I eventually quit because of too much work travel. Too many weekends away from home.

There was no down time. If in paris, for example, still no time to see anything. Hotels world wide look largely the same. Inside of a hotel in Kansas City is very similar to one outside the US.

Meetings all day. Most meals were with the local team and/or a customer. Get back to hotel room just in time to crash and do it all the next day. Had to squeeze in my usual work email whenever I could.

If I flew overseas, I really needed to sleep on the flight so I could start work immediately upon landing at the destination. Going to Europe meant skipping the meal on the plane because flights to Europe are only 5-7 hours from IAD and I really needed the sleep.

If I spent a weekend outside US, usually I spent one of the weekend days re-positioning to the next country.

Glad I don't travel any more.