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Which IT jobs have the most traveling?
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It's not as easy as classifying it by a simple job title. Some software developers might travel whereas most won't. Some networking people will travel, but again, most won't. An experienced IT consultant will travel quite frequently in most cases, and that could be in software, networking, systems/business analysts, etc.
Traveling is required mostly for non-trivial project work. They usually encompass an entire enterprise, and as such you often need to liaise with people well outside of your normal scope. I worked on a $50M project at a Big 4 firm, and a dozen of us or more were sent literally everywhere in the world to collaborate with domain experts. A more trivial project, a project that might take less than 6 months with a small team usually is very local in its impact and thus has most of the resources it needs.
So, if you're wanting to travel I would concentrate on what is necessary to be a good consultant. This means not choosing one specialty and not isolating yourself to technical minutiae; interact with the business and sharpen your soft skills, market them and prepare to wear as many hats as possible.
Traveling is required mostly for non-trivial project work. They usually encompass an entire enterprise, and as such you often need to liaise with people well outside of your normal scope. I worked on a $50M project at a Big 4 firm, and a dozen of us or more were sent literally everywhere in the world to collaborate with domain experts. A more trivial project, a project that might take less than 6 months with a small team usually is very local in its impact and thus has most of the resources it needs.
So, if you're wanting to travel I would concentrate on what is necessary to be a good consultant. This means not choosing one specialty and not isolating yourself to technical minutiae; interact with the business and sharpen your soft skills, market them and prepare to wear as many hats as possible.
My friend, a network engineer, travels three weeks out of four it seems. Me, a network administrator, I only get to travel if I beg and plead to go to some out-of-state industry conference or training.
The difference (other than title) is that I work for an organization with a single location, whereas my friend works for a global conglomerate.
The difference (other than title) is that I work for an organization with a single location, whereas my friend works for a global conglomerate.
George P Burdell
Lifer
Consulting
SoulAssassin
Diamond Member
You're lucky if you get home on Thursday...most of the time it's like midnight on Friday.
Anyone looking for a job with strong EMC experience and willing to travel pls PM me.
ultimatebob
Lifer
Sales support, consulting, and IT auditing are the biggest travel jobs. You're looking at 90% travel to customer sites for those.
fallenangel99
Golden Member
Hey, does anyone here work as an I.T. auditor or know anyone? I would like to speak to someone to see what the job is like.. Thanks. 🙂
ultimatebob
Lifer
He's right... IT auditors aren't very bright. They just follow their little checklists, and hope to find something the admin missed.
I once saw an auditing report where a Solaris server got flagged for not having Anti-Virus software installed... amazing.
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