Top 11 Jobs for the Traveller Inside You
Jobs is perceived to be an activity which fills your pocket, but not your heart. There has been a bold line between Job and Passion. What if you are paid for your passion? What if you are paid for travelling places? No, we are not talking about part-time jobs, but full time ones that fills your bank accounts. Jobs that pay for travelling is every wanderlust’s dream. What else do you need from life, if it gives you an opportunity to make your passion your job? The pleasure of getting on a plane, with a travel diary in hand and limitless enthusiastic travel ideas in mind. Does it seem like a fantasy? Well, no more. We bring you the list of jobs a travel enthusiast can go for.
- Flight Attendant
“A flight attendant is the one whose primary job is to ensure the safety and comfortable journey of passengers during an airline flight. They are all a part of the cabin crew for plane.” Sounds cliché? Okay, let’s take it again. A flight attendant who is a travel enthusiast by heart is someone who is paid for travelling different countries. This job gives you an opportunity to stay in a countries for a day or two and set sail for other. You get to see different cultures, traditions, cuisines and people. Also, it maintain your bank account.
- Travel Writer
Seven out of ten people write. But only three out of ten gets paid for it. And one such paid writing comes under the category of travel writing. Travel writing comes in many forms: guidebooks, first-person features, articles, 500-paged novels. You should be reading all types and taking notes. All you got to do is travel, write and repeat.
- Tour Guide
If you’re bored at your current job, here’s a chance to do something distinctive every day. This is a job that can take you all over the world. Explore and know about different countries, and yes of course, travel! You may get exhausted or get burned out of always being on the road. That doesn’t mean your career in the tour business is over. There are many behind the scenes roles to be carried at tour companies like developing product, which includes choosing the right hotel, transportation facility, and activity partners, sales, event planning, and social media management.
- International aid worker
Improving the lives of the world’s poorest must be one of the most worthy jobs you can do. And you will get to travel to the world’s farthest corners. Around 250,000 people are employed in the aid sector. Projects vary from three weeks to three years and are then you’ll be re-allocated. Be dedicated in your work, and soon you’ll get overseas projects.
Travel photography provides photographs for the international tourism industry. It might include capturing destination hotels and resorts, tourist attractions, scenery, outdoor adventures, local events, cultures, and customs. Captured photographs are used for advertising, merchandising, and print sales. With such a huge variety of topics, travel photographers can employ their skill at photographing subjects like landscape, wild life, reportage and events photography.
- Au Pair
Do you get along well with kids? Yes? Then this is your job! Now you’ll ask what an au pair is. An au pair takes care of the kids. It’s sort of like babysitting, except you’ll do it abroad and you’ll most likely live with the familyj. Working as an au pair might just be the best way to travel the world. Even though you’ll be hundreds of miles away from home, but you’ll have a new house and a new “family” abroad.
- Work for an International Hotel chain
People forget that working abroad can start while working at home. If you can land yourself into an international hotel chain, there are loads of opportunities to transfer to other hotels within the company and work while you travel.
- Cruise line worker
How about working on a big beautiful cruise that takes you to different parts of the world? Having butterflies in stomach? Well then this job is yours. Working on a cruise ship is a travel lover’s dream gig. You make a living traveling the world, all while receiving food for free and accommodations. Be it a restaurant server, a shop clerk or a performer cum artist in the cruise’s entertainment lineup, there are opportunities for individuals to work on one of these floating resorts.
- English teacher
English teachers are in high demand both at home and abroad. The travel involved in this job is of a different sort, you won’t get an opportunity of seeing a new place every week, but you will get an opportunity to fully absorb the culture around you. You’ll need at least a bachelor’s degree, ESL (English as second language) training and a special license to get hired.
- Archaeologist
Archaeologists travel the world to recover and save the artefacts from past human cultures. Careers in archaeology allow you to take elongated trips for digs and projects, often in remote regions of the Earth. You will need a degree of PHD and Masters in Archaeology to meet the criteria.
- Reporter
As a reporter, you can choose to go overseas, while working for any foreign branch of a media company based in your own country. It’s definitely helpful to know another language, but not always required.
So, don’t just restrict yourself to the job you don’t enjoy doing. Wake up the sleeping traveller inside you and keep travelling!
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