My kid desires a career that allows for frequent travel around the world and is paid well. What careers come to mind? Please share your experience and education/career trajectory to get there.

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No particular career I'm suggesting here but thought I'd point out that there are a number of jobs now where people work remotely from all over the world. I'm considering it too.

Key is finding a workplace that isn't rigid on things like being in the office. I've been lucky to have that

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In IT people have the opportunity to get temp contracts to work for the government (usually under a contracting company like HP) in different places.

My ex who works in IT went to Italy for like 18 months, Kuwait for 2-3 years (and was able to travel on weekends to destinations he actually wanted to such as Egypt, India, Saudi Arabia), also went to Germany for a contract, and travels all over the U.S. for his current permanent job (pre-pandemic, now more working from home on a laptop which allows him to go anywhere).
The best part about when he was working in Kuwait, he was not income taxed like a regular American in the US. He got to keep the majority of his salary and the company paid for all his housing, his travel/vehicle usage, and a lot of food was provided on the job so he saved a LOT of money in a very short time. Came back to the US and was able to use money from that job alone to buy a house.

Working remote is great, but doing contracts requiring travel or international consulting is usually even better.

HP has a great amount of opportunities to do those sorts of things in the IT field from what I heard.

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Travel consultant. They have to have experience traveling all over so they are often sent to work all over the world to learn about the accommodations so they can speak intelligently to it.

I don’t know what the pay is but I do know they get sent on frequent trips. I’m referring to corporate travel agencies like Travel Management Partners, Partners Travel and Concur.

Travel nursing. My friends absolutely love it.

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