<p>I need help in looking for a career that I will love to do. My main value is traveling. Anything with this is a plus and I want a career that they are many job opportunities for and a well high salary. </p>
<p>I hate accounting and economics and I want to stay away from those two as possible</p>
<p>Right now the ideas I have:</p>
<p>Internet marketing/PPC/SEO type stuff
work in Business Development
work in advertising
Project Manager
Consultant</p>
<p>I obviously dont want to make my decision based on other people's opinions but sharing there take and knowledge would be so helpful. Are these ideas of jobs good as for what I want? which one is the best? or Is there any other jobs better for me?</p>
<p>Admissions–If you work for a college that recruits nationally, you will get plenty of travel. Some recruit internationally as well. Admissions was my first job out of college and I loved it.</p>
<p>Oops, missed the high salary point. Forget admissions.</p>
<p>I am a project manager, have been for over 20 years. Part of that time was spent with a large consulting firm. Although you may travel to different cities for assignments, you certainly don’t spend your days out and about town… you are typically in an office, working all day. You will, over time, see a lot of different companies and meet a lot of different people, though. But if your passion is not business (or IT, as many PMs are in the IT world, but not all), you probably won’t find the job “fun”.</p>
<p>I agree with those who say that sales could be a good option. You could travel, likely actually see many of the cities you go to, and there is potential for a very good salary if you are good at it.</p>
<p>My first real job with good pay was as a trainer/consultant. Though my accounting degree helped, I used more of my business training. Think of companies with new products or equipment that needs someone on-site to teach their employees and advise/consult with management. Many were 1/2 work days and I was free all afternoon. Plus, my salary was fixed whether I was traveling or not.</p>
<p>Yeah my dad recommended me going for project manager dealing with information technology and sort. He is a consultant and he travels a lot as well. But marketing sounds so interesting and would be good with people. I just don’t know which ones of these jobs will rise in opportunites in the future when I get a degree in buisness, like for example marketing. Where I live in long Island people I know have degrees in marketing but are struggling for jobs…so im worried for that</p>
<p>Some project managers travel a lot and some don’t. Some sales people travel a lot and some don’t. What is travel? It’s going from point A to point B - usually either by car if regionally close or by plane if the distance is further, staying in hotels, renting cars, eating in restaurants, and importantly, going to some workplace albeit on the road either to work there or to attend meetings there. Once you’re at the workplace, well, you’re usually in a building working and it’s much the same everywhere.</p>
<p>The point is that you should consider the type of work itself that you’d do whether it’s sales, PM for IT, construction, or some other area, technical support for a company, etc. and then focus on the specifics of the available jobs that result to meet what you have in mind because you can travel or not with most of these general areas where you’d receive your ‘general degree’ in. Your degree will be just that - a general degree. It’s once you get a job that you start focusing in a particular area that you’d find out the day to day function of the job and even then they have different attributes (travel, etc.) depending on which particular position at which particular company you end up going with.</p>
<p>I used to travel extensively globally. I enjoyed that at the time but I got tired of it after a while. There were a lot of times when I’d arrive in a city, go from the airport to the hotel to the place of business, back to the hotel, and back to the airport and it was really irrelevant ‘where’ I actually was at the time. However, there were other times I took advantage of the location I was at by taking an extra day or tagging a vacation onto it or if I happened to be there with some free time, and was able to enjoy the location, beit another city, state, country and got some benefit from it. </p>
<p>Fortunately, IMO, the travel I did took me to lots of different places. I’ve known some positions where people ‘travel’ a lot but it’s mostly to the same one or two locations (ex: local office and HQ) which after a couple of trips doesn’t feel like what one thinks of as ‘travel’ so much as just a lot of hassle with the commute and the negative of not being at home. Make sure you find out exactly what type of travel would be involved in the prospective position since it’s not all exciting and fun (but some of it can be - especially for a young person without a family).</p>
<p>It helps to work in an industry you find interesting. Like sports–work in the business end of the sport as in accountant or marketing for a pro team. And so on.</p>
<p>The Bureau of Labor Statistics has projected job growth for many, many careers. Also, how much education and experience a person typically needs for entry, as well as the nature of the jobs, and typical earnings:</p>
<p>Event planning? I used to be the demo queen for a communications company. I got to travel to trade show around the world, as well as to far flung customers to demo our products. It was an absolute blast.</p>
<p>Oh yes, and I was very well paid. When I left that job I retired, at age 40.</p>
<p>It was kind of being the IT project manager for large scale demonstration setups. Another plus was I got all the toys I wanted, as you never demo on anything less than bleeding edge technology.</p>
<p>wow there is some great ideas here, especially ucsd<em>ucla</em>dad for that lengthy reply, thanks a lot. Im deffinatly going to use this a reminder when I transfer for my bachelors next year. </p>
<p>UCDAlum82 thats sounds so interesting im going to look into that and research about it. I might send you a short message questioning about it, once i know more about it.</p>
<p>scratch Biz Development off the list if you don’t like accounting. Typically the highest paying jobs with significant travel are accounting/finance intensive, including investment management and private equity. These days newly minted marketing grads are a dime a dozen and often unemployed…</p>
<p>I disagree ^^^ - business development is typically a cross between marketing and sales, usually involves lots of travel, includes developing partnerships and long term relationhips at high management levels, and is typically a stepping stone to executive management.</p>
<p>that sort of Biz Dev is sales & marketing, which will not lead to high pay early on. I guess I’m thinking more of Strategic Dev in terms of M&A - that is lots of travel, killer hours and good pay (think internal investment bankers). Unless you are a fabulous salesperson, having a strong finance background these days is key to getting ahead in business, as most people need to multi-task these days.</p>