The "best" jobs for travel addicts
Want to get paid well to travel the world? These are might be the careers for you...
It’s what anyone with a chronic case of wanderlust dreams of: a job that involves travel. And a new survey suggests there are some rather unlikely careers that let you do just that.
Job search site Indeed has identified what it claims are the 15 best-paying jobs for travel-addicts. The list includes the obvious options, such as airline pilot, travel writer and flight attendant, but also a few rather unexpected additions.
Auditors, for example, can spend up to 15% of their working time travelling, according to the survey, though perhaps the destinations are less glamorous than they are for, say, a travel photographer.
Hannah, 31, a former auditor, told loveEXPLORING: “My first job was to Grimsby, by myself, to audit the college there. Hardly glamorous! I only had my textbooks for company as my first exams were just a couple of weeks away.
“A couple of others that spring to mind are Milton Keynes and Scarborough. It was good if I had friends nearby so I could visit them and explore, but eventually it wore me down, so I quit.”
Similarly, management consultants and pharmaceutical sales jobs made the list, with up to 80% and at least 50% of their work time spent on the road, but arguably these high-powered corporate positions don't allow much time to see the destination you're visiting.
Here's Indeed's list in full, ordered by salary:
- Management consultant £55,236; up to 80%
- Freelance designer £45,754; up to 100%
- Travel nurse £42,886; 13-week contract
- Retail buyer £39,175; at least 10%
- Airline pilot £34,575; up to 100%
- Global events manager £34,519; up to 50%
- Auditor £34,062 up to 15%
- Travel writer £32,791; up to 100%
- Travel photographer £32,470; up to 100%
- Pharmaceutical sales rep £32,062; at least 50%
- Recruiter £30,351; at least 20%
- Travel agent £24,333; 30-40%
- Flight attendant £20,419; up to 100%
- Ski instructor £15,798; seasonal
- Stage hand £8.22p/h; six-month contract