maybe you've answered this before (sorry if so) or maybe you don't want to answer at all (understandable if so) but what type of job do you have that you travel so much

i think i’ve answered this before but i am happy to answer it again! i work in higher education, and part of my responsibilities is to recruit international students. so i travel to wherever my boss and university sends me. since september 2022 that has included: india 3x, italy, turkey, ghana, nigeria, south africa, kenya, ethiopia, south korea, taiwan, nepal, bangladesh, and indonesia. some of these places i’ve gone to specifically recruit graduate engineering students, since that’s the specific school i work for, but sometimes i’ve been sent places to recruit grad students for the entire university. on this most recent trip i was recruiting for the whole university in korea, taiwan, and indonesia but i was only recruiting for engineering in nepal and bangladesh.

i’ve worked in higher ed, and specifically international graduate admissions, for a literal decade now, but i only started traveling internationally last year. (i was supposed to start traveling in april 2020 but uhhhhh obviously that didn’t work out). before i started traveling, my expertise was more in international credential evaluation (ie. determining the degree and gpa equivalency between int’l records and the us system) and immigration services (working with students to collect the necessary documents to issue their immigration docs to apply for their student visa). there are soooo many jobs in higher ed that have nothing to do with traveling, and i really love my job (hence why i’ve stayed in this career for a decade).

funnily enough, my first boss who hired me in higher ed was on the trip with me in nepal and bangladesh and she told me how proud she was that basically everyone she hired is still in international admissions even if none of us are at our original university.