Developer/consultants for government contractors.<p>My coworkers and I move to different project sites on time scales ranging from 1-5 years. We do government software and live on-site in the capitols where we're working. Most developers move from one semi-permanent office to another new client after the project transitions to a maintenance mode.<p>Experienced devs in particular sub systems might go on 1-3 week trips to other locations to bootstrap or assist on large issues.<p>Devs are also a large part of our marketing department. A few are regularly tasked with putting together demos for clients and delivering them on-site; others help as needed.<p>Most devs also have the opportunity to attend career fairs to assist the recruiters. I've personally attended 3 in 4 years. It's such a good opportunity to be the face of your company and have the first round recommendation on hires. Sure the management has the final say but they definitely value our input.<p>My job is defined by travel, some stops are just longer than others.<p>If any of this sounds interesting to you, shoot me an email, I'd love to talk with you about it.
A lot of enterprise system integrators (eg: integrating big software products together or into an enterprise's existing infrastructure) require travelling programming consultants. Also, consultants focused on improving an enterprises development process, and team.
I have a small group of friends that work for big companies or consultants. All of them in this group travel at least once a week, usually round-trip (home<-->work-site). The work-sites can change weekly to once every two years.<p>This group of friends include HP, Oracle (formerly Siebel) and VMWare employees/contractors. All of them that I talk to regularly dislike the travel because of the big company horseshit that goes along with it. I've turned down this work repeatedly because of the travel and the company crap associated with it. Of the people I've talked to about it, only those with unstable or shitty home-lives like the travel a majority of the time.<p>AFAIK, my friends that do not work for huge companies do not travel much outside of conferences and the like.