<p>Hi fellow CC's!
Like most of you, I am in the process of applying to schools, but my major is still undeclared. </p>
<p>I love to travel, as does the rest of my family. Ive been to Europe a hand full of times and I would love to visit other places throughout the world. Unfortunately, my athletic career has affected my family's ability to travel in the last few years.</p>
<p>So, I was wondering which careers or majors would allow me to travel as part of my job?</p>
<p>I was thinking possible international relations- but i am not very outgoing... which i think could be a problem. I am also interested in things like sociology and psychology. </p>
<p>Ha! French teacher. International banker. Airline pilot. omg, military.</p>
<p>Wait, college professor (specialist in the continent you are interested in visiting) is even better- really, think of all that vaca time and the school paying your airfare and some expenses. No kidding.<br>
(I travelled a lot for one of my careers- and it was a drag, after a while. You want the time, the funds to travel AND the freedom to influence your schedule.)</p>
<p>A friend of mine is a lawyer, specializing in the oil industry. She got the job over a zillion other applicants, many of them graduates from much more prestigious law schools, because she speaks a couple of foreign languages. She travels all over the world. Business class when not 1st class.(That’s the part that makes me envious!) Has so many frequent flier miles she rarely pays for plane tickets when she & her family take their frequent european and caribbean vacations.</p>
<p>Biology and especially geology can involve lots of travel. A degree in public health can lead to humanitarian work overseas.</p>
<p>The amount of travel for anthropology and archaeology is overrated because specialists in those fields tend to return to the same site (or at least the same country) year after year. The job outlook is exceedingly poor, in any case.</p>
<p>Don’t confuse business travel with vacation travel. Business travel gets old fast. You often see no more than the inside of hotel rooms and client offices.</p>
<p>As a management consultant I traveled extensively. Many of my colleagues got so burnt out on the not fun business travel they couldn’t stand to get on another plane for fun travel! Talk to adults who travel extensively for work. I don’t think I know of anyone who does not see it as a huge negative after a short while.</p>
<p>My advice is to pick a job you love that will make you enough money to do extensive vacation travel.</p>
<p>Federal Government. But as noted above, business travel can get old quickly. Also you don’t necessarily go to the greatest places in the country, and the Federal per diem isn’t designed for people to stay at high end hotels or eat at fancy retaurants. Too many Big Boys and Motel 6s. </p>
<p>I can remember staying at some rundown motel in north Florida with six channels on the cable and a wake-up call that consisted of someone knocking on my door and yelling: “Wake up! Wake up.” We then drove to a tiny airport and the same guy who sold us our tickets, put the luggage on the plane, and then got in flew the six-seater, one engine prop.</p>
<p>I stayed in some pretty great hotels, in some pretty great cities and ate some pretty great food- but missed a number of family events and, several times, barely made it home for Christmas, in blinding snow. And, there is always, always something personal you never thought you’d need that you end up buying at your own expense. </p>
<p>I had college summer jobs in hospitality, at two resorts- it was a blast- but you have to remember you are there to serve people who can have high expectations and be cranky about it. After all, it’s their vacation.</p>