<p>I want to travel a lot. Anybody know what I can major in? No, I don't want to be a stewardess. What's International Business?</p>
<p>Hey! I have the same career goal, I love traveling. For you my advice is to try and major in International Studies. In most universities this programm will allow you to go abroad.
In my case I'm going to major in Romance languages and Journalism, because I love to write about what I see and I love learning about different cultures and languages.</p>
<p>If you want to travel a lot, you can really do anything. You could major in English, Business, IR, Poli Sci, Law, History, Pre Med...anything could potentially give you the opportunity to travel. It really depends on what you do with it. Do you have any other interests that would narrow it down a bit?</p>
<p>Hotel management :) You will HAVE to travel a lot sometimes.
But I agree with URichmond2010. You could major in anything
and there will be opportunities to travel.</p>
<p>Well I was considering International Relations or Political Science. Originally, I wanted to pre-med but now I'm not so sure.</p>
<p>Being a doctor is not going to let you travel much for work (outside of conferences), but it will afford you enough money to travel.</p>
<p>Or you could join MSF and be a doctor who travels... </p>
<p>I'm looking for the same thing as you in a major/career - I need to see the world. I'm majoring in IR and Econ and also taking some languages. I'm not entirely sure what I want to do with it, but I know that my future job has to involve either travelling or enough money and time off to travel on my own. </p>
<p>I do think, however, that you can turn any major into an international career if you market yourself to the right people. Some of my friends from high school have parents who are engineers and they've lived all over the world - my friend's dad did oil exploration work, and he's lived in Nigeria, Thailand, the US, the UK, and Canada. You also get business people and journalists working internationally. Also, international organizations don't just need poli sci majors - I attended a presentation where a NATO official told my IR coursemates that they were looking for anthropologists. </p>
<p>The best thing to do is look for international work experience in your undergrad summers or right after undergrad - whether that be through internships, family connections, or even volunteering in a developing country.</p>
<p>I would advise you to think long and hard about taking a job with extensive travel requirements. It gets old reeeeeeeeally quickly. This is mainly because the type of travel you'll be doing isn't the fun kind where you actually get to experience foreign cultures and interact with local people; it's pretty much strictly business, then straight to the hotel and then to the airport.</p>
<p>Living out of a suitcase is not fun, no matter what tv and pop culture have to say about it.</p>
<p>MSF is a great organization, but most Americans are going to leave med school with far too much in debt to do it... unless they do some sort of deferral or repayment plan-- I've not been informed of such.</p>