a job where you can travel a lot?

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Low-end jobs that put you in nice places tend to pay poorly, and have no longer-term career development.
Service work in the tourist industry is like that. And even with the poor prospects, there's fierce competition for the nicer places and jobs, because there are a huge number of young people looking for them.

That depends on the country, some of us have robust industrial relations laws. In Australia even just working at MacDonalds pays $30/hour. Although that's still not a lot of money it's liveable.

"National minimum wage applies to all workers not covered by an industry award or registered agreement. Currently, for full-time and part-time adult employees, the national minimum wage is $915.90 for a 38-hour work week, or $24.10 per hour. For casuals, this is slightly different. The amount you’ll get paid as a casual worker for minimum wage is $30.15 per hour, due to a casual loading of 25% being applied on top of the base rate."

A guide to minimum wage in Australia for casual workers - SEEK

 

[Crossbreed]

Currently, for full-time and part-time adult employees, the national minimum wage is $915.90 for a 38-hour work week, or $24.10 per hour. For casuals, this is slightly different. The amount you’ll get paid as a casual worker for minimum wage is $30.15 per hour, due to a casual loading of 25% being applied on top of the base rate."

Is that gross or net?

 

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Is that gross or net?

That's gross. It's also in Australian dollars so it's closer to $20/hour in US money. Still not bad though, we have a huge tourism industry here and a lot of people come here on a working holiday visa, if they have skills and qualifications they can earn considerably more than that but many are happy to just get bits of casual work as they travel around and explore the country.

How much money that really is depends heavily on what area you're staying in. Brisbane, Darwin and Sydney are incredibly expensive places to live because of the tourism industry, in the rest of the country you can live quite cheaply.

 

[Richelle-H]

From my mid 20s to my mid 30s I worked in information display technology and did a great deal of travelling on the company dime. Spent 2+ months in Amsterdam installing a new arrival departure system at Schiphol airport (probably all gone now as it was 50 years ago), spent 3 months in Montreal installing scoreboards for the 1976 Olympics and subsequently as tech support during the game (most likely all gone now as well for the same reason). During this time, I travelled to many different locations for anywhere from a day to a week ( New York City several times, Hamburg New York, Dover Delaware, Dallas-Ft. Worth, Las Vegas, etc.)

Employment in a job like this was more or less complete luck. I was desperately looking for a job and applied for one as an assembler. I was told I was over qualified for the position but was offered employment for a miniscule amount of money $3.10/hr (1970), which I took to get the job for a better resume.

I made use of my background and made it known to the only bench tech at the small company that I was more than capable at debug and repair of faulty circuit boards. Within a few months I was making more than 5 dollars an hour with continued raises. I used this to move into better paying jobs moving forward and taught myself programming which ultimately increased my worth and led to better and better paying jobs as I moved forward, although some of the travel aspects became fewer in number.

So play to strengths and be prepared to take less money than you hope for to become established. Travel is nice, but a good stable job with an adequate pay check can lead to the goal being sought. Patience and hard work are always welcome strengths in achieving any goal.

 

[Masked Man]

I have a friend who wants to work at a job where he can travel a lot.
Some ideas that myself and his friends came up with were:
1. Firefighter
2. Trucker
3. field research assistant
4. Assistant for a Celebrity


You need training for the first three I think and the 3rd option doesn't even appeal to him.

He currently works seasonally at a camping ground in the kitchen, and he's superb with thoroughly cleaning the various kitchen appliances so that people are least likely to get sick when they dine at that establishment.

He has a Bachelors degree- I don't know in what.

The two jobs that immediately come to mind for me are medical device sales and support and reviewers for JACHO (or just the Joint Commission). Both are in the healthcare field and travel a lot as part of the job. Medical device sales people go to different hospitals and pitch sales for medical devices and JACHO reviewers do hospital safety evaluations.

The bad side of this is that you don't really have any time to get out and do any sightseeing. The other bad side is that, although it does pay very well, it gets old after a while. Neither job appeals to me at all.

 

[AuAL]

jobs that immediately come to mind for me are medical device sales and support

This brought to mind for me jobs in oil industry infrastructure engineering/technology sales and support. I’ve met so many reps in airports around the world. To help solve problems, sell and support solutions, they have to go where it is happening. These are diverse locations in many different places: -40C to +40C, as another poster mentioned.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

Yes trouble shooting technical issues, did that a few times getting trained as a technologist will put the pieces in place. Just pick your speciality. Five technologists in my family, two brothers and both sons.

 

[Crossbreed]

I like my hobbies too much to enjoy being a long-term traveler.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

My brothers wife travel's the world as a tourist. he never joins her.