The Best Careers for Travel
If you love to travel, why not pursue a career that requires regular travel, instead of waiting for vacation time to come around for an excuse to leave your home city? The top travel careers are exciting, well-paid and can be consistent with your passion in life, such as writing, teaching or flying.
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Airline Crew
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Working for an airline is a popular way to have a travel career. At the top end of the pay scale are commercial pilots, who fly 65 to 75 hours per month, both domestically and internationally. But special training and experience are required to be considered for a pilot's job. You also could work as a flight attendant or air marshal and satisfy your travel itch. Air marshals are government employees who travel anonymously on flights to help assure security and safety on the plane. While gate, baggage, and ticket personnel do not travel as a part of their work, they do enjoy the job benefit of free leisure travel.
Travel Writer
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If you love to write and travel, there is a way to get out of Starbucks and onto a plane and still make money. Travel writers are paid to explore and discover vacation destinations, then write about them for magazines, newspapers and other publications. Airfare and accommodations generally are covered by the employer.
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Cruise Ship Captain
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A cruise ship captain holds the highest rank and is responsible for safely guiding the ship to and from its destination. Along with these duties, you also would have an opportunity to travel. Special training and experience would be required for this top job. Cruise ships also need hundreds of other employees, including servers, entertainers and medical personnel, who travel to exotic parts of the world while they work.
Hotel Inspector
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If you like to travel and enjoy staying at hotels, consider a career as a hotel inspector. You would get paid for sleeping in hotel beds, eating room-service food, going to the hotel spa and using other amenities. You also would be responsible for evaluating the employees and hotel manager, who might or might not know that you were sent to inspect the premises. You would have to write detailed reviews, sometimes 100 pages or more, of the hotels that you visited. Hotel inspection is consistently listed as one of the top travel jobs (see "References" below).
English Teacher
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Countries all over the world are desperate to hire teachers to instruct residents how to speak English properly. You would travel to a country and teach for a few weeks, a semester or more. Then, you could move on to another location abroad and experience life in a new location.
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