Career Breaks Travel Articles

 


“I’m Taking Off to See the World!” How to Tell Your Parents
“I’m Taking Off to See the World!”  How to Tell Your Parents Breaking the news that you’re going traveling can cause a parental freak out of epic proportions. By preparing answers to the most common questions you can downgrade your parents’ concern from panic to everyday worry. Jo Fitzsimons shows you how.
Swapping Your Blackberry For a Backpack: What To Expect
Swapping Your Blackberry For a Backpack: What To Expect Taking a career-gap for long-term travel can involve more lifestyle adjustment than you might think. Jo Fitzsimons shares her tips on how best to adapt in the early weeks.
Why Travelers Make Great Entrepreneurs: Lessons From the Road
Why Travelers Make Great Entrepreneurs: Lessons From the Road Travel shapes us as entrepreneurs. The girls from {r}evolution apparel share the business lessons they learned as a direct result of their experiences abroad.
BootsnAll’s Top 10 Round The World Wednesday Articles From 2011
BootsnAll’s Top 10 Round The World Wednesday Articles From 2011 Over the past year, we have seen a renewed focus behind what helped start BootsnAll as a company - extended, RTW travel. Because of this new focus on RTW travel, we thought it would be a good idea to take a look back at our most popular articles having to do with extended, round the world travel. We looked at the numbers and chose the top 10 most popular articles and broke them down according to 5 of the most important aspects of traveling around the world.
Traveler Postcard – Katie on the Trans-Siberian Railway
Traveler Postcard – Katie on the Trans-Siberian Railway In BootsnAll's new series, Traveler Postcards, we profile a real trip - highlighting the best of a destination as seen by a particular person on a particular trip. This week Katie Aune shares stories from her adventure on the Trans-Siberian in Russia.
Gift Guide: 11 Gift Ideas for Career Break Travelers
Gift Guide: 11 Gift Ideas for Career Break Travelers Do you know someone planning to take a career break or gap year? Career Break guru, Sherry Ott, gives you a unique list of gift ideas that any career breakers would love. This isn't your normal travel gear list!
8 Crappy Reasons Not to Take a RTW Trip (and 8 Great Reasons Why You Should)
8 Crappy Reasons Not to Take a RTW Trip (and 8 Great Reasons Why You Should) The idea of a round the world trip can be scary, and it's easy to find reasons to discourage yourself from facing those fears. But for every reason why you don't think you can take your dream trip, Adam Seper shows you why, and how, you can.
Travel Sooner: 5 Secrets to Funding Your Journey Faster
Travel Sooner: 5 Secrets to Funding Your Journey Faster Would you like to travel now, instead of later? Would you like to travel for six months instead of two? How about a lifetime? Jennifer Miller shares some secrets to funding your travels sooner rather than later.
9 Hard-to-Resist Reasons to Take a Gap Year
9 Hard-to-Resist Reasons to Take a Gap Year The reasons for taking a gap year - a travel break from school or work - can be many. Adam Seper offers nine of countless more reasons to take a break from normal life to pursue your travel dreams.
12 Career Skills That Travel Will Improve
12 Career Skills That Travel Will Improve Ever think of traveling as a way to build your resume? Mabel Lee shows you how career break trips can actually improve your skills on the job or prepare you for your next big step in the professional world.