With a work + travel lifestyle you can travel now, and travel later. You don't have to live vicariously through your favorite Instagrammers...because you don’t have to wait to make your travel dreams a reality.
Here’s how:
If you want to travel more, then you must get out there and do it: travel. It's not as easy as it sounds, though. Timing, planning, and getting through those mental blocks often get in your way until you just put it off, again and again, until next year.
Then the cycle repeats and you see that one kid from high school on Instagram who has this really cool travel job and all their pictures give you serious FOMO...and then you realize that if they can do it, so can you!
Okay. Here's the quick reference list for what you need to do, to travel more by living a work + travel lifestyle:
“Here’s your official offer letter and benefits package,” the HR girl said at New Employee Orientation. She handed me a folder stamped with the organization’s name. “Welcome!”
I was so happy and relieved I had landed exactly the job I wanted: working in Admissions for a university. After working multiple travel jobs overseas with both American study abroad students and international high school students, I knew that if I were to get a full-time job back home it would have to include an education component. If I wasn’t going to be traveling full-time, at least I’d get to work with students - this was something traveling helped me realize.
And then I saw it:
I can’t believe it didn’t hit me until April of my senior year that I could get a travel job. That there are jobs out there that actually allow you to travel. Or jobs centered around traveling. That you can get paid to travel, in exchange for work!
I tried to plan out a 2-month backpacking Europe trip with a friend, which downsized to 2 weeks, to 1 week, and we still couldn’t afford it, looking for a travel job instead was a no-brainer.
If you get my newsletter, you read about my Dreams > Goals > Reality system last week. This is where we go from figuring out what we want, to how we're going to do it.
The issue is that oftentimes we get lost while thinking about what we want, and forget about the middle section - the most important part - GOALS!
Looking for a travel job? There are many posts online that list the various travel jobs out there, like teaching English, working for a summer camp, or running an online business anywhere in the world. You might skim one of those lists and go, hmm, that sounds cool or yeah, I'd never do that.
But how do you know which travel job is right for you?
Since time is such a big factor when it comes to traveling, the length of time you'll be working your travel job is the best place to begin in terms of figuring out which travel job is right for you.