If you travel abroad for work what do you do?

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Posting for traffic and because I’m genuinely curious!

I love traveling and would absolutely love a job that takes me abroad more often. Right now, I travel around the UK and Northern Ireland for work, but I’d love the chance to go further—like the USA or Asia, Europe.

If your job takes you to the USA or Europe regularly, what do you do? I’d love to hear about it!

And before anyone jumps in with "work trips aren’t holidays"—I know... I work hard, get everything done, and then make the most of whatever free time I have to explore before coming back home to my family.

Teacher by trade but I deliver training all over

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.

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).

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.

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 .

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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.