Also would prefer no mention of travel nurses or anything in the healthcare field.
There's a wide range in consulting. Something like Bain or McKinsey is extremely competitive, but like a Microsoft Dynamics implementation consultant, not as much.
I do HRIS consulting. Not terrible and good money. I travel if I want to and since I do c2c Contracting I can work from anywhere.
What is HRIS consulting?
Help human resource departs pick, set up and train people to use human resource information systems. Like Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, Deemo and others.
Can you share more about how you got into this? I'm in HR right now and would love to be able to travel more.
They're very easy to get if you go to a good b school
I was also going to say this but yeah miserable is a key component. while travelling i work 12+ hours days so in a month long trip I may only get 3-4 days where I can go do anything, and a lot of my free time is spend either trying to relax or catch up on sleep.
Pilot
You also have to pay for school which is 60k+ and not eligible for federal student loans
60k is a good deal for six figures pay.
There are people paying 100k to make 30k 🤣
It’s 60k to start and you have to hope you don’t have any medical issues at all or that all goes up in flames. Layoffs /hiring freezes are also pretty common with pilots.
Early career also pays dog shit. Sure, the top pilots at the largest airline can make 500k but most are making far less and starting out you might be hoping for 50k.
I know we’re talking about travel here specifically, but just to add this for anyone else: many higher paying blue collar jobs require long, extended hours, with lots of travel and once the shiny wears off, all of that can be a huge downside.
What pilots are making 500k? Name an airline
Aero Escobar
I know one pilot at American making 460k
Delta with overtime I know one personally who did over 500k
I have a buddy who just started with Delta after 2-3 years of smaller puddle jumper experience and he’s making $250k so it’s definitely worth the debt lol
The top earners at most big American Airlines and places like air China, Emirates, etc.
You can pretty easily get near there as a wide body captain at any of the the legacy carriers. I know a bunch of dudes over 400k, though I don’t know if any are over 500. They can also easily have side hustles because they only fly a few days a month.
i personally know a pilot making $900K and several over $500K that aren’t even required to fly.
american delta united china air
60k to start if you're lucky.
Most dudes go to Utah for skydiving at 17 an hour
That’s crazy to think about. Racking up debt just to be making the same as retail/food service, maybe even less.
You obviously haven’t worked retail or food service to say that
I work at Target. One of the biggest retailers out there. Unless you’re a manager or a store director/owner, you are not making enough money to live.
Me too! Working for a big retail company as well and dealing with the public…. the job is not for everybody, physical toughness aside, you need to have a thick skin to deal with public, in summary, your mental health isn’t great nor your body in the long term.
Yeah it’s definitely draining. It’s annoying when people come into the store talking shit about us workers “not doing our job”, but they fail to realize that we are underpaid and very overworked and trying to make it out.
Is that 60k just for the private license or pvt license plus an aircraft to use to get to the required 1500 hours of flight time? I’ve heard that’s what really gets a lot of people. It’s a career for rich people whose dad owns a plane.
Private license is around 10-15k. Getting commercially licensed is around 60-100k. I just put 60k as a lower end estimate. But yeah it’s def a rich man’s hobby lol. Unless if you want to get into private loan debt with egregious interest rates or somehow have $$ urself
I’m in flight school because of federal student loans. What are you talking about?
Join the Air Force.
It’s competitive to get commissioned and you need to be in the Air Force for at least 8 years.. it’s not nearly that straight forward
A lot of airlines actually have training programs, especially for women and minorities! I got recruited for one that would’ve paid 80k while being trained. Unfortunately, I am deathly afraid of heights haha
Most of their pilots are ex Navy or Air Force. It's hard to beat their training program.
I wouldn't even say they're highly paid for what they do.
Commercial pilots make six figures
Plus a majority of their lodge and food paid for lol.
Also their job seems really relaxing and passive the majority of the time. Autopilot and then just sit and watch the flight.
If I wasn't a scaredy cat about flying it would be my first career choice. I am terrified of heights and flying though so not for me.
The parts that aren’t passive are the opposite of relaxing though. Landing a 400k pound plane with hundreds of passengers on board while going 175 mph when you first hit the ground is quite the responsibility and skill. You’re also dealing with communicating with air traffic control so that you don’t collide with other planes or land on the wrong runway. Throw in bad weather for another element of stress.
It’s why you’ll need about 1500 hours of flight time to become a commercial pilot. It takes most pilots a couple of years to get that amount of experience and unless you know someone with a plane you can use that is where it gets expensive post-license. Piloting has been known to be a career for the sons of rich people for this reason.
Although I thank you for your answer, these aren't the hard parts.
I became a commercial pilot on the A320 with about 300 hours of logged flight time.
Of these hours, about 15 were about flying the aircraft. About 5 were about landing 70 tons at 150mph as you said, and I'm sure the other 280 helped as well.
But most of these hours, and thousand more on the ground, went towards one major skill : planning.
90% of the job is thinking about anything that can go wrong even if you don't think it could, and having a solution for it.
The there are other reasons the pay is high. Your schedule is fucked, and that's probably the only reason I wouldn't do this job for less money. On the outside I appear as someone who's not working half the time and on holidays the other half. But the reality is I'm never here on week ends, I sleep all day, I sometimes have to give up everything I had planned to go catch some sleep, and have to leave the only party I could go to in 3 months at 9pm and sober to be fit to fly at 5am the next day.
Thanks for responding with some reality, I’ve been reading these posts from all the armchair pilots talking about how we are all at the beach while the airline sends checks. Blue skies :)
oil and gas - pretty well any faucet of the industry can have alot of travel.
Also, work travel gts old VERY fast. first few months is fun, then its hell.
Source, me. Traveled the majority of middle east, Africa, alot of europe, the americas, and far east. A new place is fun once, after that its just work.
Why do you say it’s hell after a few months?
Because you travel for your employer and not for you. Most of the time, you won’t have any meaningful time to do anything touristy and most of the time, your clients are the same so you juste go to the same places. Also, forget being part of anything back home. Wanna play a team sport? Won’t happen. Also, travelling leads to restaurants eating and less physical activity, so you gain weight . Also, forget having a family life if you’re away 50% of the time.
You forget that most work places are also well away from any tourist type area, I worked in Barcelona 6 times for a week each and never even saw a beach, just industrial units and offices.
I went to Egypt eight times before I ever got to visit the pyramids… and even that was just a quick stop.
You miss your family, your bed and your non work friends. Lots of drug/alcohol abuse.
Also diets can be awful for frequent travelers.
Pretty well what everyone else has said. It gets old. You miss friends, family.
I was 220 hotel nights in 2019 in 25+ different countries. Only benefit I thought of all the travel was airline and hotel points. I could take my family on an awesome trip. However, phones are still on with a vacation from the oilfield. I worked mornings and nights every vacation I took.
Why do you say it’s hell after a few months?
The first few times you travel for work is great. You get to fly, stay in a nice hotel, see a new place.
Then, after a while it becomes so monotonous. Hotel rooms become so restrictive. Your diet goes to shit because you can't cook healthy meals. You waste so much time in transit and have to deal with jet lag. You have to be away from family and that can take a huge toll.
After a while it becomes a miserable experience.
I travelled quite a bit for my last employer, all over the world.
Was lucky to ever get a half a day to myself and saw mostly the insides of apparel factories and sweat shops. All of those look depressingly the same everywhere on earth.
Hotel food after work, everyone thinks because you’re and American, all you will eat is Pizza Hut.
When you can steal some moments for yourself, it can be truly exciting and fun. There’s a lot of long days, hard work and tough miles in between those moments though.
Most work is in remote areas. Ain't shit to do but vices and that lifestyle stops being fun pretty quick.
Is it hard to get into that field?
Not really. Just search the hot oil towns in the US and follow their job postings/fair boards. Depends on what you’re interested in doing but if you can show up on time and pass a drug test you’re set. Offshore can be tough, land is easier imo
Do you recommend any specific companies to look into? Any particular locations? And can a female potentially work these jobs? I’m a loner by nature btw.
Worked in this industry. For me it wasn’t even fun once. First professional meal in a Scandinavian country and my client is talking about the must-see spots in his town, my boss cuts in and says “don’t give him ideas I don’t want him thinking it’s a holiday”, I fucked off a couple weeks later.
I can confirm that many parts of the oil and gas industry have great travel opportunities. Also, oil and gas jobs tend to pay well!
Especially construction. I lasted a month. Out in the field, 10 or 12 hours, 5-6 days a week in the desert. Be lucky to talk to anyone, including your supervisor for twenty minutes in the morning. It takes a special person for that. I was not. Benefits were great for entry level, everyone seemed great. But I could not take the lack of work-life balance and isolation. I was in the American southwest.
Totally agree. Traveled every week for 3 years straight and it was brutal after the first few months At the 4 and 5 year mark I figured out how to make my trips extremely efficient and didn’t step foot on a plane unless it was worth my time. Made more money with the latter strategy by about 100k
This right here. I work in offshore oil and gas and it definitely gets old but I wouldn’t want to ever go back to a normal 9-5 again. I only work half the year and having huge chucks of time off is amazing.
If you consider traveling to remote, barren locations travel, then yes... sort of
Buyer at aerospace company. They expect you to travel, and you need to travel to be any good at your job. Low barrier to entry, and high paying thanks to the new space race/Cold War with China. It gets old though, but I’d be sad if I didn’t get to do it (traveling not the job. The job is awesome.)
What exactly does buyer entail? I assume that isn’t the job title? I’m in the industry but as an engineer…this is intriguing
That is the title. Sometimes it’s sourcing specialist, or purchasing agent maybe, but most job posts will just be buyer. Places purchase orders, negotiates pricing, interfaces with suppliers, project manages and facilitates getting all the outsourced parts into the factory, etc etc etc
Buyer is a very common title, and it's basically what it says on the tin: you buy stuff for the company. But just like buying groceries and personal stuff, you have to be strategic. Which place sells what? What are the prices? Quality? Etc etc. Need to be considered. Anyway, you probably know it better as "procurement".
That's super interesting. What education did you need for that field?
I've spent the last 20 years in the military and have a post bacc in aerospace program management but don't really know where to start when I get out.
No applicable education until last year when I got a grad cert in supply chain. There were a TON of military guys in my class, probably half the class (I could tell cuz they all wore fatigues all the time). I was just in production, then transitioned to supply chain during COVID. Life just rolled that way for me.
Sounds like what you do is already very close and sort of overlaps with supply chain. Chekc it out man. I’d add that It’s an extremely safe job right now. Look up domestic spend in the cnc machining industry and that chart just goes straight to the moon.
These jobs are all but impossible to get without federal government experience unless you’re promoted from within, from what I’ve seen. They all want you to have extensive knowledge of FAR and DFARS.
Purchasing and expediting are some of the hardest positions for a company to fill. Nobody wants to work in purchasing anymore, let alone make a career out of it.
I was a buyer at Boeing, and can honestly say >60% of my peers had zero prior experience with FARS and DFARS
Sales, tech sales has been quite fun
How do you like tech sales? I’m 19 and in college for IT and realized I might want to do this or cybersecurity sales!
Are you a person who naturally talks with new people at parties, finds it natural to network/ connect with random people?
Otherwise the grind to get to a position where you don't have to do cold outreach will be a mess.
Source: I'm in top shelf tech sales for 6+ years.
If you're more technical you may wanna consider Sales Engineering or Customer Success/Customer Engineering roles.
Basically you are the technical counter part of the Sales dude, do the technical demos and proofs of concept. Be the first for technical questions during (and partly after) the sales process. Depends on how the given product and company is structured.
Sales in my experience just takes certain personalities, hence they pay so much. You can teach the tech but you can't teach that people genuinely like you and wanna listen to you, or let you guide a conversation with tough executives.
Yes I am a natural talker! I just switched my major from computer science to IT because I realized I didn’t wanna be a software engineer and I hate coding. I am now trying to figure out what role I would enjoy in tech and tech sales seems like a good option to be in. I am also considering UX/UI design & project management.
my recommendation would be to look into pre-sales / sales engineering - the titles may vary a bit by industry and company.
Basically you'd get higher base, lower commission than the sales guy - but you have a much more chill life & less pressure.
And being an extrovert is a plus in these roles. For tech sales you usually don't need much technical expertise at all.
I studied politics lol.
Check out the requirements of companies you like, or the profiles on LinkedIn by people who have a position you'd like.
And just contact them. Ask them - hey bro, your job sounds super cool - I'm just a student and would love to get in your position, any tips or guidance you can give?
Most of them are happy that actually someone interested is pinging them on LinkedIn, not the 15th sales guy like me.
Ok will definitely do this thank you so much! Is the stress of being in tech sales really all that bad at some points because you have a certain number to meet? If you don’t meet the number do you guys just get let go ?
Biggest thing I’ve learned and taught others. In tech sales a hit rate of 20% may mean you’re killing it!
You know how in school we learned that you can be saved by the curve? Well in sales that’s also exactly the truth. Now the scariest part? There’s some sales guys that will have you scratching your head like “how does this guy still have a job?” Those should typically make you feel more safe and secure in your own role
😂 ok good to know thank you! If I wanna get ahead of other people to get a job after college..I’m an upcoming junior right now so would you recommend doing d2d sales? And then senior year try leveraging a job as a sdr before graduation? Or would doing d2d not be beneficial..
Being naturally talkative is probably the least relevant trait to being successful in sales
What do you mean by
Otherwise the grind to get to a position where you don't have to do cold outreach will be a mess.
Junior sales = cold calling? What does a more senior position looks like?
Im noob with sales
Basically someone does this work for you and you have a book of business that are already qualified leads.
I disagree. I think all personalities and levels of social ability can be in sales. Just depends what you sell. I’m B2B consumer goods and we have very little “type A” sales personalities in our company
It’s how I thrive. I went to school for engineering and realized I make better friends outside of my classes.
You can quickly identify good tech sales candidates if they can speak like an engineer but break it down in layman’s terms.
You can quickly identify exceptional talent in tech sales if they’re more personable than other typical engineers
Where do you suggest starting out? I think I check off all the boxes
I started off with school as an electrical engineer. The quickest way post graduation if you want some weight under your belt for the role and potential responsibilities is marketing engineering / field applications engineering. Almost all the time people in those roles flip flop between sales, marketing and applications support. I’m not one to be an outlier to that fact neither as I started off as field applications for 7 years first
I’ve flown all over the country and Europe with tech sales. Loved it
Business consulting. Huge income ceiling, and you could be on the road every day of the year if you really want to.
Right now IT consultants are making great money, but you could also go for something more traditional like management consulting.
How do you get into this?
I became a Salesforce whiz. Entirely self-taught. I added Scrum Master and other Agile certifications.
I do love it!
I’m remote now, and that rocks too!
How do you self teach Salesforce? I started Trailhead or whatever but couldn't convince myself it would lead anywhere
Ah! I was in sales operations and they gave me admin access. Then they’d say ”can you make a field for X?” And I would Google it, get into the community and people would point me in the right direction. Getting this job was a total fluke and I took advantage of the opportunity
I made dashboards, and funky reports and Ingot real handy with it. Then I started solving problems and coming up with formulas and sharing them in the community.
It took me four years to sit the admin exam, but the. I got my first certification.
I got headhunted and here I am!
A good business education, really solid internships, exceptional networking and interviewing skills.
If you're referring to IT consulting specifically, I would recommend a bachelor's in management information systems. A summer internship or two also makes a big difference.
Most people who go into consulting are people persons. They tend to be extroverted, at ease in social situations, organized, and assertive. In order to be successful at consulting, you'll have to be good at (or learn) networking.
It seems like most people spend time in industry first. Perhaps working as a higher-level support technician, systems analyst, network engineer, etc. But if you have a degree from a decent school you could probably jump right into consulting.
Yes this. I’m technically a cross over of all the things you’ve listed: I handle pre merger/acquisition consulting for cloud architecture! Im an IT change management consultant by trade. It’s a great gig. I used to travel 80% of my time but now I’m 30% due to my preference. I make $220k annual.
This is the kind of career that sounds sexy and new grads are excited about, but after doing this for a couple of years you'll be miserable and want to move to internal rules without billable hours. If you do stick to it for a couple of years you'll get a good start for your career though.
How to find these roles? Look up management consulting jobs?
Unless you're coming straight from college, having a craft or area of expertise is highly desired and sometimes necessary. It can be challenging to move into consulting as a generalist, especially if the market isn't booming.
You also have to be adaptable and comfortable with change. Every client and project are different and there may be times you're not super thrilled with what you do.
Management consultant, management Analyst, Business Analyst, Business Systems Analyst, Engagement Manager, Implementation Manager. Similar titles (but require more technical experience or certs) - Solutions Architect, Scrum Master, Salesforce Consultant, M365 Consultant/Developer, D365 Developer, ServiceNow, Oracle etc….it can go on and on depending if you want to focus on a particular technology.
Consulting
Nice profile pic
Hell yeah, you too 😎
Travel to only the finest completely empty corporate towns and spend ~15 minutes a day not in the office, hotel or transit between the two
Livin the dream
I've known a few who go to chicago and germany regularly - they may be the lucky ones though (Accenture, Deloitte)
Way better to just live in the city you want rather than go wherever your agency wants to send you
How to get into consulting?
Idk I’m not a consultant. I think they’re hatched at birth or something from lizard-people, that’s my best guess.
I’m a consultant and can confirm this.
Depends what kind of consulting you want to do but business school from top ranked schools is where too firms recruit the most from
I'm not a consultant myself, but I onboarded at a large accounting firm with a group of them. The most common paths that brought them there were MBAs and masters in information systems or information security. There were a smaller number with bachelor's degrees along with significant experience in a particular industry. One had a PhD in Economics.
There's different types of consultants. Some of these commenters are talking about strategy consulting (Bain, AT Kearney). Some are talking about IT guys that are basically independent entrepreneurs w/ a marketable tech skill. But lots of low-level consulting is bc of outsourcing or staff augmentation; if a company is starting a new project and doesn't have the in-house expertise, they hire from an agency. Some companies outsource to India, others insource. It's basically like hiring a temp to write code. It can be fun; it pays better than plain coding, and you get/have to learn a new tech every project.
My friend works as a roadie or stage hand for a major label rock band. He has seen most of the USA and also major cities in Europe.
All expenses paid!
How do you even get into this, fell like you have to know people in the industry
Usually industry connections + Audio engineering skills
Know and demonstrate the proper way to coil a cable or you're toast
I’d say consulting, remote tech jobs, and high level sales roles (high level account manager, etc)
How do I find remote tech jobs?
Construction Superintendent, the more you want to travel the more you can get paid.
Consulting jobs are literally travel travel travel and starting pay of around $70k, entry-level if you get into a Fortune 500
How do I find this kind of job?
There are consultants for almost any field. If you have a degree, there are consultant jobs. Use indeed to find them. I’m in the environmental/ecological field and most people become consultants. Though I don’t think they travel to glamorous spots😂
Mine was engineering consulting.
Medical device sales, non clinical
Auditor
Federal emergency response positions or disaster work jobs in recovery and contracting
A trophy husband you just wake up and order food for each meal.
Drug mule
Are mules paid a lot though?
Ofc all cash no tax
Railroad tycoon
Pretty much any rail jobs. They typically start off with incredible salaries and benefits. Some can be hard manual work, others are more relaxed. Either way it's definitely a very lucrative career path that's relatively easy to get into.
The downside is that when you begin, the railroad will expect you to be on call 24/7. Someone gets sick and they need a fill-in at 3:00 AM? You better fucking be there or else. Maybe for years.
Everything on the railroad is senority. Some people appreciate that, and others hate it.
I remember looking into a position and went on Glassdoor. Probably best for a single person or someone with a very independent partner. Some pretty wild experiences shared there.
For sure. Entry-level railroad positions are typically filled by young people with few family commitments (or else they're filled by people whose families get pissed or leave them).
Consulting.
Although Covid changed the landscape.
But I was on the road 4 days a week. Sure it might have been Cleveland, Davenport Iowa, Detroit, and various towns in Jersey. But MAN! I racked up my miles and earned my points.
It can be fun, it can suck and now that I’m working more on remote projects, I realize that it’s exhausting.
Pharma rep
Specialized field service roles
Most major IT OEMS, like Dell Technologies, Cisco, Amazon Web Services, Palo Alto Networks, HPE, Hitachi Data Systems and resellers like CDW & WWT (World Wide Technologies) have Professional Services teams of Delivery engineers that travel all over the world doing IT implementations of IT solutions at customer sites and data centers.
These positions require a broad range of technical skills, IT certifications, and sometimes security clearances and pay in the six figure salary range while the cost of traveling is, of course, covered by the company. You can look up any of these company’s on sites like Glassdoor.com for opportunities that might be a fit for you.
Consulting for companies like McKinsey, Bain, BCG. You’ll be traveling 50-75% of the time, make shitloads of money while telling companies how to run their business despite having little to no knowledge of how the business actually runs. You’ll get to suggest how they build their teams without giving them any ideas of responsibilities or accountabilities and leave it up to the gutted senior leadership to figure out. In some cases, you’ll be assigned the company and enact cost cutting measures that leaves the company in more debt, no ability to innovate, and a shell of an organization so that your VC buddies can dismantle the company for penny profits.
I’m being mildly sarcastic. Unless you went to an Ivy League college, those companies won’t even look at your resume, let alone attempt to interview you.
Working from home does not have to mean working from home
McKinsey consultant. High-end escort.
Ok, both basically the same thing.
Indian cricket player.
Mechanic for big medical machines like MRIs. They get flown out across the country and make big bucks.
I’m a professor and teach online at a university. I only go once a week for the hands on lab skills portion. Other than that I’m free to travel and each remotely. So I’m always constantly crashing at friends and family and have 5 day weekends
Travel nurse
The most random jobs honestly. My aunt was an exec at HP and they flew her first class all over the world for decades. My dad recently flew first class on Emirates (like a $16k ticket) to Qatar - he does government contract stuff. Both of them make over $300k but their jobs are super niche corporate jobs. My boss (a film producer) travels a lot but we film in boring places like Atlanta, middle of nowhere Australia, and North Carolina.
Atlanta seems to be booming for production. I guess anywhere with large warehouses (ahem... sound stages) and a tax break to lure productions out of LA will get some runaway production.
Get a flexible remote job if you actually want to travel to places you'd want to travel to, unless you work for Nat Geo or something.
Pilots make good money....but not all airlines are created equal.
FedEx pilots make good money, and generally seem pretty happy with their positions.
Southwest pilots seem like a pretty happy bunch too. Southwest also doesn't make you start off by doing those crappy commuter flights.
Merchant mariner
Cocaine mule
Clinical Research Associate
I second this. As someone who used to work in one.
Get a gig with a big company, learn SQL really well (not hard), spend about a year and a half MASTERING your way around that company's data warehouse, and go teach other people how to do what you already do with THEIR data. My dude, you'll be so sick of traveling that you'll consider a week at home without having to touch some kind of some stupid peoplesoft travel system a vacation.
Caveat is that you have to convince HR that you have a skill that can be marketed elsewhere (i.e., a competitor whose database is nothing like your own, and is probably a fucking mess you're going to have to go marshal up C-level leadership and a 7 figure budget to make it not wrong). Ask me how I know.
Interested to hear more about this..where did you learn SQL? What other skills would be helpful to learn along with SQL? How did you get into the consulting aspect??
Yes all of these questions
Working in marine transportation.
People thing constant travel for work is awesome..and it is..for a month or two. Long term it sucks.
Clinical research. CRA
Military once you get promoted
Travel nurse.
But you need to work as staff nurse for a few years first.
Contracts run between 2400 to 3200 a week depending on location. You can find new contracts every 3 months and travel somewhere else or stay in the same city.
Depends on what you want out of “travel a lot”. Like just being gone from home alot, or seeing the world? Because I travel a lot, in a high paying job, but somehow I don’t think familiarity with the interior of a dozen Marriott Courtyards that look like every other Marriott Courtyard is what you’re looking for.
Work travel is very rarely awesome. With limited exception, the average highly paid, high travel position will have you going to the same 6-8 cities repeatedly, with no time for anything fun while you’re there.
Exactly. I’ve done some good ones (Marriott in St Kitts) and some bad ones (Best Western in Atascadero, CA). We have a meeting at a below average Doubletree in Orlando coming up in August. I’m hoping they turn that into email and I don’t have to go because just eeeew.
High-end escort/gigolo… not… that I would I would know of such things.
Long distance cross country 16 wheeler truck driver. High paying and travel ALOOOOT between east coast and west coast
My job.
VP at 100 person tech company. I live way out in the in nature but need to fly to the mothership in a tier 1 city one a month for 3-4 days.
Same questions , don't really have expectations of good pay or high pay , No previous experience , what should it be ?
Sales
My dad is an electrical engineer for an international company. He travels all over the world, it’s cool. But def draining.
Pilot and tech
Actuary
Otr trucker
You and me have different definitions of high paying.
You do fuel or cars and you can make good money
What's high paying for you? I travel occasionally for my job (IT Analyst who does user training for a specific software) and some people I work with make mid 100k's travelling 85% of the year. Granted some of these places aren't very interesting, they're little towns with manufacturing facilities, but they're all over the US and some locations in Canada and I think 2 locations in Mexico.
There are a lot of companies big enough to have locations all over the place who will pay you to go those places for one reason or another. Distributors, manufacturers, 3rd party contractor services, consultancies, etc.
If you want to know some of the companies I work with who have travelling agents, DM me. I don't wanna dox myself listing all the companies I'm associated with
Software Implementation Trainer/Specialist
I work for a software company that requires me to travel 3 weeks out of the month. I wouldn’t classify it as “high paying” with my company, others offer more in annual salary though.
3 weeks out of the month sounds perfect. Do you get to work from home the rest of the time?
If you want to do implementation and a road warrior being a network engineer. I did it for a few years and got burnt out from the travel.
Internal audit, specifically "store auditors," "property auditors" or similar. Typically you need a background in accounting. Some positions require specific knowledge of the type of business being audited.
Certifications are usually preferred, but not always required. You don't necessarily have to be a CPA, but getting a Certified Internal Auditor or Certified Fraud Examiner certification can help you get a job.
What kind of businesses still have onsite audits? Grocery stores, hotels, restaurants, property management companies, real estate agents, auto parts stores, department stores... Just about any large chain or franchisor will have some audit function, and many still send auditors out to do onsite audits and inspections. I worked with a guy who used to travel all over auditing hotels, and another who audited Dollar General stores.
Keep in mind that when a listing says 80% travel, that can be fucking brutal. A lot of people think it sounds exciting, then quickly burn out and wish they were spending more time at home. You have kids? Plan to not watch them grow up. You have a dog? Adopt it out to someone who'll be able to take care of it.
But for those of us who love being on the road, there's nothing better.
If you have any specialized work experience or knowledge of a specific industry, look into whether the biggest companies in that field have audit departments. I've seen people with no accounting experience at all land audit gigs because they knew industry-specific practices or regulations the accounting grads didn't.
Why would you want this?
Finance/Accounting - Big 4.
Management consulting - Big 3 (MBB)
You will travel, but whether that travel is enjoyable or not depends on whether you're new hire or a vet.
Independent Insurance Adjuster. Job is a lot of hard work and can be stressful but you get to travel all over the country. I used to make 6 figures working 7 months out of the year. Often the work is long hours 7 days a week. High pay, travel, and multiple months off.
I’d like to know too.
Railroad engineeri. But you have to start as a break man, and probably on a short line. Base pay is only okay, but you will get a shit tonne of overtime
Flight attendant
I don’t think flight attendants are necessarily highly paid. I would also never do the job, it’s seems like high pressure retail lol.
Flight Attendants (at least in the US) get paid very little. Like $55,000-$70,000 (and I’m pretty sure that’s on the high end). They literally just had a strike.
In my mind, a high paying job is 150k+. 50-70k seems fairly regular
Considering the state of the economy, 50-70 is “good” but by no means “high.”
It doesn’t pay well. You only get paid when the plane doors are shut.
The entertainment industry has most of those because a physical presence is still required. Singer, actor, IG influencer etc. Reality TV may be more accessible to get your foot in the door.
You can also choose an industry and become one of the premier experts in that field to where people pay you for speaking engagements around the world.
Singer, actor, and IG influencer are not "high-paying" jobs for 99% of people who try them.
Travel nurse. A low salary for a travel nurse is $100k
Definitely consulting, though those jobs seem hard to get and miserable.