If you travel abroad for work what do you do?

I was an academic and went to conferences all over USA and in the Far East. I also worked for a few weeks at a time for universities in Thailand and China. It was the best part of the job.

DH does loads of global travel for work- lecturing in his specialist subject. Think Australia in 3 days. It’s a no from me!

Exactly the opposite!
We do not shave heads (that's in India!) and we pay a decent amount, as well as offering local women employment. The whole aim was to be more ethical than those other companies

global company, corporate communications. Global
travel is a pain. No downtime, even evenings you’re out having drinks with colleagues

@hairyunicornPlease tell me not the kind of company that basically shaves the heads of impoverished girls in slums so you can make some quick £££?

I work in medical communications and do 1-3 abroad trips per year. I absolutely hate it 🤣 we dont get any down time, work very long hours and cant really tag on holidays. I used to do more travel for a previous job selling environmental fluids for oil and gas and those trips were wonderful! Pretty much all evenings were free, bar the odd client dinner and could tag on days if we wanted. I went to Zambia, Oz, Norway x2 etc plus a lot of Aberdeen which was less fun!

I work at a university with some responsibility for international student recruitment and partnerships.
I travel to Asia 3-4 times a year.

Internal Auditor for a multinational company. I have now changed jobs and only travel in UK. The abroad travel sounds glamorous but after a while becomes tedious. I have changed jobs on purpose, was fed up with airports and hotels . Going on Holiday is different of course. Now drive everywhere in UK and loving it .

Student recruitment would be something worth looking at. Independent private schools and universities particularly attend recruitment fairs all over the world. The bigger universities tend to have market specialists so spoils the fun unless you want to travel to China 12 times a year.

Freelance IT PM, so I travel wherever the job is. I can work from home sometimes, but I find it more fun to be jetting off to places (not UK based, though).

I work for an international NGO. Travel to Africa, Asia, and Europe. Much less travel these days as projects are managed by in-country teams and lots of meetings are done virtually.

Teacher by trade but I deliver training all over

I travel a lot for work - in fact I only do about 5% of my work from my home base, but I am self employed. I work in entertainment - technical support for bands, theatre and events so therefore have to travel with the artist and/or event. It’s great and I love it - pay is good and on most projects we get at least some time to see some of the places we go to and I’ve been to pretty much all of Europe, US, Canada, South America and China. Oz and Japan are on the list to get to though!

Not compatible with family life though so as I am thinking of starting a family within the next year or two I am looking for more full time opportunities closer to home. I do hope to get back to it at some point, at least part time as I really do love it (though that love has stopped me having a family so far as I worry I will regret the seismic changes to my life).

Get a job at an international company. I am a commercial lawyer working inhouse at a global company and travel semi regularly for work. I could travel more but have slowed down since having kids. My profession wouldn't normally be associated with work travel, but my company is.

You should train as cabin crew. My friend is one and she’s been everywhere. Love seeing her pictures on facebook of whichever random country she’s in today! Sometimes it’s only a night stopover, but other times she gets 2/3 days.

For wigs and extensions, We had collectors who would drive out to the villages. I came in at the end to inspect quality and pay. I also oversaw the cleaning and packing for shipping.

For wigs? How did it work — did you have someone doing the ‘collecting’ on the ground?

It’s not very much fun when every.single.trip. is at the same office, in the ass end of nowhere, with nothing to explore/do.

Oh and the Middle East! Dubai would probably never have been on my list but it's great to have experienced it!

I used to be a "global head of ...." for a luxury car brand and would travel up to 6 months of the year.

I have seen a lot of Europe, the US, china, Tokyo (my absolute favourite) and Melbourne.

It was incredible and I feel very lucky.
Then I had my children and the appeal of being away so much wore off. Now we just plan to take them to the places mummy worked to see the cities and experience the places properly!

I used to travel to the US (from London) every 2 weeks out of 6. I was a Programme Manager in Financial Services and had IT teams working for me in NYC, Colorado and Texas. It was hard work and long hours but I loved it! My Colorado team I especially miss as they were great guys and I enjoyed every visit.

IT program manager for a global company. Generally going to other offices in US and Europe to run workshops of various flavours. When I was a young un I once had to deliver system migrations across 6 European countries so was in a different country every week - mostly completely unglamorous but did once spend a week in a 5* hotel in Malta with the actual work only needing a day in the end. Fun times 😎

Dh does

But he barely gets a free time. It’s in and out as much as possible as he has a home life and family to get back to. Bar the odd hour here and there, there’s no whole free evenings or afternoons

medical Device sales reps that I have worked with seem to travel all over the place for meetings, training and conferences. It looks like a lot of work and a lot of play. Looks knackering though!

Also government, previously NGO work. Travel loads, lived overseas. Some of the world's less glamorous locations though!