Itinerant teacher.

My wife and I run four-year training programs which meet forty days in 20 day segments each of the four years.

So that brings us to the locations of our courses twice or three times a year - the third is for support of exisitng students and promotion for the next venture.

We have done these courses in West Australia, Switzerland (conintuously for nearly 15 years now) and in various U.S. cities. On the road 5 - 6 months a year.

Work is great, people great, the actual travel is wearing thin as the travel "experience" degrades.

Best wishes,

Teacher49

Pastry cook....semi-retired. Before that I was a free-lance photographer for 17 years. Love to travel especially to France and I always pay for my own tickets :(

Dairy Farmer in upstate NY, work 7 days a week, 365 days a year.

So when do I get to travel? We escape twice a year thanks to charging a LOT of farm purchases on my credit card. Thus the "dirt cheap traveler".

Data/Business Process architect (reporting/datamining, etc) for Cisco Systems. I travel only for fun (~70K miles a year)

I do rock concerts and tours as a separate venture :)

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Medical Lab Technician at Memphis Area hospital. Leisure traveler with yearly trips to Tokyo,Las Vegas + Jacksonville. Occasional trip to MLB city(Cubs + A's fan)

Flight Attendant...after a long sales career :p

Which job is tougher? :eek:

I am an international HR consultant with a significant other living on another continent.

I'm the COO for a philanthropic advisory firm -- our firm is retained by a number of families to advise them on the use and implementation of their charitable gifts. If I only flew for work, I'd just be a Premier. Thank goodness, I'm able to travel quite a lot for leisure/vacation and a couple mileage runs. My addiction is well-fed.

I will be heading off to business school in the fall, so I'm worried about losing my status (irrational fear?!). Can I survive in coach? :D

freelance video producer :cool:

Tougher? Hmmm...hard question. I lived and died by my numbers. Was very good, but that came at a cost. Worked from an office in my home and covered a fairly large territory (New Jersey to Georgia, basically) and when I was home I was always working. It was very difficult to NOT work when I was home. And, when I wasn't home, it meant I was working. I made 5 times $$ what I made last year. I used to spend more on a client dinner than what my current paycheck is....laid off after 9/11 (I worked in Business Development for a cruise line)

Since then, I've slowed down, learn to let more stuff slide, am generally easier to be around, love my job, leave it at the airport when I go home, have great benefits (if traveling is your thing) have a schedule that is very conducive for family life and traveling, and I get to go away for a few days, which is always a plus.

Mostly I say "hello" and "what would you like to drink?" all day. Some days I look at what row I am at with the cart and just cringe that I have at least 30 more cokes to schlep. Can be mind numbing. This new breed of greyhound bus travelers absolutely stuns me some days with the lack of manners, courtesy and situational awareness. Gimme a grouchy PLT who's had a bad day and just wants to go home ANY time over the self absorbed masses that are new to traveling. That is what, to me, makes my job hard. People's lack of consideration for others. And, their unwillingness to be nice to others. At least in sales, if we didn't like you, you probably knew it, but, we'd be civil to you and even invite you over for a drink if we saw you in a bar!

SO, back to the question....it's apples and oranges. I just prefer oranges.

Physics grad student - hopefully only for one more year :) - with almost all travel for leisure to get out of CLL once a month :cool:

David

Like many others I'm also a college student at BC like it says (points to sidebar), however, I think I win the title of "youngest in the post so far" because I'm a freshman and thus only 18.

Over the summer and on and off during the academic year I'm a principal in my family's corporation. Mostly my job involves explaining the need for things that involve "technology" and then buying them.

I do travel for that (on rare occasion) but mostly for personal reasons, leisure, and vacations. I have a girlfriend on the west coast, whom I gleefully fly off to whenever possible. I love flying, especially to warmer, sunnier places (read: especially California) and I'm very glad I happened upon the FlyerTalk community a few months ago.

Real Estate Broker licensed in California and Nevada....Happy Traveling :cool: