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4 Tips For Traveling While Working Full-Time + What Happened In 2016

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4 Tips For Traveling While Working Full-Time + What Happened In 2016

We're nearing the end of 2016 and another year of travels in the books! Can you believe it?!

For a majority of 2016, I was working full-time, yet I still managed to get to five countries! One question I was often asked this year was how I traveled while working a full-time 8-5 job that only offered 10 days of paid vacation.

I thought I'd write out the top four things I did that allowed me to work + travel so much this year in hopes that there will be some takeaways for any of you wanting to travel around a restricted schedule.

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7 Things I've Learned From 5+ Years of Travel

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7 Things I've Learned From 5+ Years of Travel

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.

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How I Traveled To 11 Countries by Working Abroad - on WE ARE TRAVEL GIRLS

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How I Traveled To 11 Countries by Working Abroad - on WE ARE TRAVEL GIRLS

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.

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4 Steps To Take Now To Land a Travel Job

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4 Steps To Take Now To Land a Travel Job

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. 

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Travel Visas: Do You Need One To Work Abroad?

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Travel Visas: Do You Need One To Work Abroad?

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.

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4 Awesome Benefits from Working While Traveling

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4 Awesome Benefits from Working While Traveling

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!

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How To Turn A Travel Experience Into A Major Resume Builder

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How To Turn A Travel Experience Into A Major Resume Builder

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!