a career that involves A LOT of traveling?

<p>Do you have AIM jeparlefrancais?</p>

<p>yea! my sn is apairofjean...just IM me and we'll chat!</p>

<p>consulting. try to get a job at McKinsey & Co.</p>

<p>listen, if you want to travel, get some money (rob a bank, or mary someone rich, or maybe your rich already!) and just travel! thats how u gota roll son</p>

<p>what exactly is consulting? sounds business related...</p>

<p>My parents both started out as 8s, I think (8 is lowest), my dad's now a 2, I'm not sure about my mum (she worked as an English teacher wherever we lived and only recently started working for the embassy). I doubt the job is easy, but it's not that intense. My dad has been the IO (information officer) and now is the.. um... crap, something, he's basically the press officer - he manages all the embassy's relations with the Spanish press (you need to speak the language), does the interviews, writes most of the speeches for the ambassador, reads a few dozen Spanish papers a day... It was a really stressful job in Venezuela (where the political situation is hell and the U.S. is not looked on favorably), but Spain is pretty relaxed. We haven't really lived in the "big" embassies - these are pretty small, unimportant countries in the scheme of US foreign relations. The pay might not be as great as other jobs, but they pay for so much (the big one, rent) that it probably balances out. </p>

<p>You don't need to be a complete political junkie, there are plenty of jobs at each embassy. I think the five sort of foreign service career types are management, public diplomacy, economic, consular and political affairs.</p>

<p>For real info:
<a href="http://www.careers.state.gov/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.careers.state.gov/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Ah, well thanks for clearing this all up. The reviews I've read up to this point have been quite polar about the career and where it's going. </p>

<p>BTW, are you the person applying to St. John's this year? (I believe the topic got deleted.) If so, which campus?</p>

<p>No, I'm a junior. I will almost definitely (maybe) apply next year. I am the one that rambles on about it and the other great books colleges all the time. I have no idea which campus, I've heard good and bad things about both, and I've been stalking some Johnnies online for a few months. We'll see. </p>

<p>Good luck!</p>

<p>Door to door salesman.......</p>

<p>Actually my mom is a pharmaceutical representative and she has to travel all through the week. But her traveling is in the country.....and since your name is "jeparlefrancais" I would think you would want to go some place where you could parler francais...</p>

<p>Though I really have no clue, that is my input!</p>

<p>hey thanks for the website limon. that provided a wealth of info</p>

<p>Become famous!
Really, the number of jobs with lots of travle involved, is limitless.
International Relations is a major that often leads to going abroad for work.</p>

<p>yea i was thinkiing about international relations. couple questions about that tho. if a school doesnt offer international relations as a major, is it better to go there and design my major based upon international relations or go to a school that actually offers taht major? and what kind of things do u learn as an int'l relations major?</p>