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Anyone here got a non-military job which allows for foreign travel and stationing?

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TommyVercetti

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I am talking about non-military jobs which send you to foreign countries for a year or two, or require frequent international travel. If so what do you do and what job? I am really interested in obtaining such a job. Not right now, in about 3-4 years time. What I would really like to do is work for the Dept of State, in there Foreign Service thing. I would love to go and live in different countries, no matter which.
 
The buyers for the place I work for fly overseas all the time. I remember the week of 9-11, 2 of them were stuck in San Fran because they were coming back from Korea when the planes hit. Poor guys were stuck there with nothing to do but run up their expense accounts.
 
A buddy of mine works for GE, and he has the option of doing six month rotations in China, and Europe.
 
Originally posted by: GoodDad
The buyers for the place I work for fly overseas all the time. I remember the week of 9-11, 2 of them were stuck in San Fran because they were coming back from Korea when the planes hit. Poor guys were stuck there with nothing to do but run up their expense accounts.
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That really is too bad. I feel horrible for them.
 
oil companies hire a lot...especially tech degrees to work in mideast.

there are also lots of opportunities in china/hong kong/singapore
 
Originally posted by: guapo337
Originally posted by: psydancerqt
my aunt's a buyer and flies all over the world all the time. she's worked for several different companies.
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what exactly is a buyer?
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yes please explain... I mean the title is obvious but how the heck would one go about getting a job like that??
 
I was going to suggest the Foreign Service, but you already have that. Go ahead and sign up for the next exam, if for no other reason than to see how you do. That's the first step in the process, and if you flub it, you will know what areas you need to work on for when you take it for real. I took it about 11 years ago just to see what would happen. Scored 176 with 180 required for the interview cutoff. Grrr.

Otherwise, I have no idea. I'm in one of those military jobs. 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Crazymofo
Originally posted by: guapo337
Originally posted by: psydancerqt
my aunt's a buyer and flies all over the world all the time. she's worked for several different companies.
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what exactly is a buyer?
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yes please explain... I mean the title is obvious but how the heck would one go about getting a job like that??
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A buyer is someone who makes the purchases for a company from distributers/other companies. All of our buyers worked their way up through the ranks in our company. The pay sucked for them at first, but over time it gets to be a very good job. My company is different than most companies though. No one gets paid very much on their salary, all the money is in bonuses.
 
Originally posted by: TommyVercetti
I am talking about non-military jobs which send you to foreign countries for a year or two, or require frequent international travel. If so what do you do and what job? I am really interested in obtaining such a job. Not right now, in about 3-4 years time. What I would really like to do is work for the Dept of State, in there Foreign Service thing. I would love to go and live in different countries, no matter which.
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Um... What do you want to do job wise? There are TONS of different jobs/companies that will send you overseas but what do you want to do for a career? If you base your career on travel possibilities, you are going to screw yourself over bigtime. You need to find a career path and then find a way to travel with that.

Just my .02.
 
i was relocated to Chile from New York city in order to manage a contingency datacenter...
I work for a wall street IT consulting firm
 
Foreign Service is a good place. You will go overseas and generally stay 3 years at a station. If you like teaching you could also consider a DOD school. But you would be on a military base and that is a totally different experience than working at an Embassy. You could also look into teaching at an International School. Internation School in Manila for example.
 
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