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If you have had any journalism or broadcasting (or whatever they call it these days) courses in college, you might check out media outlets like newspapers, Time Magazine, TV news networks, etc.
I was a photojournalist in the US Army for over 20 years and that was a blast! Of course, you had no schedule, you never knew where you were going next, and you even got to ferret out other newsworthy stuff for sidebars and follow-ups or even main breaking stories. Plus, you could even be the closest photojournalist to a major disaster by accident.
I was in New Jersey at 9/11 for instance. It was all the horror you saw in the news and then some, as I went to it from right across the river when the first tower was hit.
Believe it or not, when we moved here after retirement, a well-meaning neighbor suggested we buy an RV and "get in some travelling while we're still young!"
I laughed and said, "No thanks, I'm building a pool and staying HOME!!"
I have a lot on my mind and don't feel like settling down. After college, I never stayed in one city for more than 2 or 3 years. I'm thinking that once I pay all my debts I'd like a consulting or market research job that has me on the road on temporary assignments 24/7. That's right, no permanent residence, constantly traveling to the next assignment in a different locality and going immediately to the next locality after project completion.
Besides consulting and market research type work, what other positions lend themselves to this kind of lifestyle? Just trying to brainstorm the possibilities.
My brother-in-law travels constantly - he is an international account director for Coke. I'm not sure it is required for his position but he does have an MBA.
I ran engineering organizations for a Fortune 100 company for around 30 years. Always had a home base but traveled at least weekly across the country. Somewhere between 5 and 6 million miles. Limited major places...upstate NY, LA, Dallas, London regularly with less regular stops at almost any large city in the US. Just part of how a big engineering shop works.
In Engineering you are always chasing the next job. Not always in another location, but I know a few who are always moving around.
Sure, I know several people who travel constantly.
One is a fashion photographer. Several are national sales/customer relations/marketing people for large corporations. Another is a director for Google who does something obscure with databases. Another is an engineer who is a specialist is some sort of building management control system widget.
I have a few other examples, but they cross a number of different industries and experience levels.
I turned down a job interview with Deloitte for 75% Travel/Consulting. The salary was 50K but for someone just starting out in their career that probably would be great. Unfortunately that was way less than what I make and live on now. Try applying with them.
What is your background? That might narrow things down a bit. Sales is of course one version. My dad was one. He would be on the road for 3-4 weeks at a time and then home for a month. First Winnebago I ever saw was a friend of his (back in the 60s) who used it instead of staying in motels all the time.
Other jobs are of course construction and construction management, oil rig roughneck. And in the engineering world there are a lot of traveling engineers. Some are pretty obscure, but out there. We have test engineers who travel months at a time around the world. A lot of DoD contractors do as well (and no, I'm not talking about mercenary jobs here, but technical ones). Folks who maintain equipment at radar sites, shipboard, etc. Go to where the ship is. Some work at the remote sites on one year tours; things like that.
Anecdotally, sales/implementation and consulting are the two "mainstream" jobs I've seen that have constant travel. From a consulting standpoint, that can be internal or external.
While there are a lot of pros to being a road warrior, there are a lot of cons as well. I think it really depends on the person, job, and type of travel. I've done travel where you have specific travel days. Meaning you typically don't actually meet clients or work on the project on the days that you fly. I've also done travel where you meet multiple clients in different cities on the same day. That gets old REAL QUICK.
And in this day and age of air travel, not sure I'd be up for it now. It used to be common to fly on 1/2 full planes during the week (imagine being one of six people on a 737 SWA flight). That's a real rare treat these days.
LOL...oh the glory of business travel. Been there, done that...
You will burn out in 2 years. Forget a personal life or marriage, if you are married you will get divorced. Basically you will have no life and find most of your life is spent in that stuffy metal tube (airplane) or 4 walled prison (hotel room).
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