If you travel abroad for work what do you do?

I used to be a hair collector :)

I would regularly travel to Myanmar (Burma), Cambodia and the Philippines.

One of the best jobs i ever had. Loved travelling esp. to SE Asia, Jetlag was a killer tho.

@JengaTower124 it's a great industry to be in. Pay is low at entry level but there are lots of opportunities to move up quickly and it's an industry where moving around to increase salary isn't at all frowned upon - it's pretty dynamic in that respect.
Roles for people with similar experience from other industries do come up, we've just employed an overseas BDM from another industry because she's well travelled, a great communicator and very commercially focused.

Not me, but DH has travelled all over the world working for the UK government.

My husband travels lots. He's essentially a salesman. He sells parts for pieces of equipment used on ships/subs. If a country has ships or a dockyard that maintains ships, be it cargo, cruise military, etc, he travels there.

Civil Service international negotiations - some departments do more than others. business and Trade mentioned upthread

I also work in travel so spend a fair bit of time travelling around the UK and overseas for events, conferences and training trips.

I'm a business development manager for a tour operator and a large part of my role is representing my company at trade and consumer events. There's often not a huge amount of time for independent exploring but I try to build it in where I can. Training trips and fam trips however are fab, whilst it undoubtedly is work I get to experience some amazing things!

I travel quite a bit for work, I'm a Civil Servant at the Department for Business and Trade in an internationally facing healthcare team. I'm really lucky that I've been able to travel to South America, the Far East and the Middle East. Other work colleagues regularly travel to the US and Europe!

Yes, it's not as glamorous as people think, but we do get downtime to explore. It's also really easy to add a few days annual leave and stay on to do personal exploring. I've been doing it for quite a few years now, so I'm less excited by the travelling as it can be exhausting. However, I feel incredibly lucky I've managed to visit some amazing places!

I work in travel, so unsurprisingly I travel! Europe in my case as the destinations I deal with are all in Europe.

Totally agree with seeing as much of the destination as possible outside of work. I once went to Barcelona (first time I'd been) for a day and a half of meetings. Finished at 1pm on the second day but wasn't flying home until the next day. I went straight out from the meeting to explore and didn't get back to the hotel until 1am. 12 hours on my feet soaking in as much of the city as I could manage.

My employer are keen on us building a bit of time off into a trip where possible as the more familiar we are with a destination we offer the better.

Law. I travel much less since Covid though. I used to be on a plane every few weeks.

You'll probably have to work for international corp. One friend works for Microsoft as a software engineer and regularly travels to the US, another works as a strategist for MoD and 60% of her work involves international travel.
They both hate the travelling aspect of their work, though.