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Take the foreign service exam and become a diplomat. There is a big difference in the experience between traveling for work and traveling for pleasure.
Maybe it's me, but over the road truckers or outside sales ... Driving 1000's of miles a year isn't my idea of " traveling". It seems more like a super long commute to work. Lol
big construction companies that build substations, lines, transmission towers, underground infrastructures.
Now with the HUGE rush to increase electrical power there is a HUGE boom in construction all across the USA.
There are many Countries buying up our utility companies to invest in wind power and/or bring the increase of power to many areas.
I know of a company that hires many ex-military. They get a new truck, a new lap-top, an iPhone and have those utility companies paying large sums to get the teams together to start projects. Salary and PERDIEM. Maybe not moving costs if perdiem is offered. Health care, etc.
Estimators, purchasers, managers, construction teams, engineers, procurement, health/safety, environment, legal etc. (I know of an ex-police officer that is now a construction manager making six figures without actual electrical engineering degree or a construction degree. He was in the right place at the right time and has a friend in upper management. The guy can't manage a dead bug in a bag, but he DOES get those utility companies to choose HIS construction company for their projects.
A g/f and I used our flight benefits to fly down to the Bahamas. It took 2 flights on smaller and smaller aircraft to reach our destination. The last plane looked to be 100 years old. When we departed the island for our flight back to Nassau the co-pilot came back ( no p/a system) and informed us that we'd be making an unscheduled stop on a neighboring island to pick up a couple of passengers. We landed on what appeared to be a dirt road and two people boarded. One had a couple of chickens that rode with us.. He was just holding them.
When we taxied for take off a tire went flat. We had to spend the night as they ( Bahamas Air) couldn't get a repair crew out until the next day. There were no hotels or restaurants on the entire island. They did have a little general store, but it didn't have much. The people of the village came together and fed us ( steamed fish and rice) and families offered places for everyone to sleep. It was a great adventure and we got to meet and interact with some really nice people. Things like this make travel fun
Last edited by Sydney123; 07-26-2014 at 02:01 PM..
Speaking of working on cruise liners, the irony is that one would most likely see far less of exotic foreign port of calls, as a 'free' civilian, than someone that's in the Navy on a West Pac cruise.
And most of the travel is NOT to exciting places. It's to dull places.
And even if its to exciting places you never get to see/do much of anything. When asked I always describe business travel as "an inside job". All you get to see is the inside of taxis, the inside of airports, the inside of airliners, the inside of offices, the inside of hotels, and the inside of your eyelids.
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