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How much can you learn after traveling to 18 countries over a span of five years?
It's hard to believe that it has been about 5 1/2 years since I traveled internationally for the first time, and my life has never been the same since.
I've gone through the years from saying YES to studying abroad in college in 2011, to where I am today having worked and traveled in 12+ countries, with some big lessons and takeaways from each year.
It’s a classic story: you travel or study abroad in college, have a massive desire to continue traveling afterward, and vow to make a big trip happen once graduation rolls around.
However, expectations from parents, peers, and professors may suggest otherwise, like settling down to a “normal” routine and climbing the ladder in the corporate world instead of traveling out in the world.
Finding a job that allows you to travel often can be tough, though it is doable, and you can start taking steps now if your goal is to land a travel job.
Especially when you realize that your average corporate setting allows maybe 10 paid vacation days per year and that you're working 50 out of 52 weeks...then you definitely need to get creative with traveling when you have a full-time job!
This post is for those who are looking to create a work + travel lifestyle by working for a company/organization and want to be traveling for at least six months or so.
A visa for temporary travel is much different than the credit card. The visa is the stamp of approval - literally and figuratively - that allows you to enter and exit a country.
It could simply be a stamp in your passport upon arrival/departure, or could also require a pasted sticker in your passport.
Getting a travel visa - and if you actually need one or not - really depends on what type of work + travel opportunity you're doing, and whether you're working for yourself or someone else.
For those of us bit by the travel bug, it's no question that we want to go everywhere.
But going everywhere can get expensive...well, if you travel in the traditional sense.
What if you could find a fun, rewarding job that paid you to travel?!
Now that's the dream.
In fact, that dream is much more reachable than you may think.
There are more benefits to working while traveling than just having the means to travel (which still is a huge benefit). Read on for four cool benefits of working while traveling!
While the dream of traveling without a job or working as a digital nomad does come true for some, for many, this travel narrative isn’t desirable, attainable or sustainable.
However, just because you are career oriented or wish to maintain steady roots in one location doesn’t mean that traveling isn’t for you.
In fact, whether you are planning on spending a weekend, a month, or a year abroad traveling, you can leverage this experience to enrich your resume and create a work + travel lifestyle that helps your career.
Catalina from missadventuresabroad.com is giving us her best tips to turn those “vacation” days you spent traveling into resume material!
It's no secret that there are many factors involved when it comes to working while traveling, because there is so much to figure out!
Questions are bound to come up about exactly how to get paid to travel, who this lifestyle is right for, and how to make it work in different life situations.
Since I get questions on this topic daily, I thought I'd round up some of the most common ones and give you true, honest answers!
