This is a nice article because it puts ideas in your head if you love to travel.  Why not make a career out of it?  That is the ultimate which is getting paid to do what you love.  How cool is that?  Anyway, there are a lot of different kinds of travel careers that you can have, so read on and see how you may be able to fit what you love to do in with making a great living.

Careers for people who love to travel are becoming more and more commonplace; and I’m not just talking about the army here. I’m sure you’ve all read about how people are building up ‘portfolio careers’ with a few years doing this and that - is incorporating travel into that quite as easy as it sounds?

Your dreams of travel may be somewhat different to the ‘travelling for work’ idea that many corporations have. Whilst your eyes light up with the thought of jetting off every week to a conference on a beach, in reality you’ll be stuck opposite a company car in a truckers cafe…

Careers for people who love to travel should therefore be self-employed jobs? You can do what you like, visit where you please and your agenda is entirely dependent on how you feel, or what time you get up.

Self-employment has many benefits - typically you get exposed to all of this with work-at-home “opportunities” but that’s hardly attractive is it - staying within the same four walls, day-in, day-out with no change of scene? You’d be better off with a commute to somewhere else!

Travel careers need self-employment. No, not starting a travel agency - that’s been done. Companies have already thought of that and cut into that market with big wallets. Expedia must surely ring some bells…

But Expedia and other big brand travel agents cannot tell the stories you can of your travels. They can try! “Consumer reviews” aren’t a patch on your own adventurous story. So opening your own travel agent shop?

Nope. People search for travel somewhere else - online. You need to get established online and carve out your own niche. Doing that is an entirely different question - how on earth can you compete on the same turf as Expedia? That’s the million dollar question!