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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.
15 Things You Won’t Miss About Long-Term Travel
Returning home after a big trip can be tough. Jo Fitzsimons reminds us of the things we won’t miss about travel and offers her best tips on handling the downsides of life on the road while you’re away.
28 Ways to Save Money for Your Big Trip
Saving up funds for a big trip can be challenging, yet people who are serious about traveling are always pulling it off. Katie Hammel has collected 28 expert ideas, and even doing just a few of these will go a long way.
3 Easy Steps to Saving for Travel
Reformed spender and travel writer Nikki Vargas from The Pin The Map Project shares her best tips on saving money for long-term travel.
75 Ways to Save Money For Your Travels
Is it true that only people with high-paying careers can afford to save large sums of money for travel? Pamela claims that anyone can save large sums of money for travel, it just takes some creativity and planning. Here are 75 tips to help.
Coming Home from a RTW Trip: Adjusting Your Expectations
Greg Banecker learns a few lessons on the road about readjusting his expectations when he finally returns home from his RTW trip.
Defining Change – Coming Home from a RTW Trip
Adjusting to life after an around the world trip can be stressful, especially when you have high expectations about how your life should change. Annie Shustrin shares her struggle in returning from a year long honeymoon and finding her place in Brooklyn, New York.
Enhance Your Resume with Travel
Long-term unemployment is a difficult mental hurdle to overcome for those considering a RTW. But a gap in employment doesn’t have to hurt your resume. Tara Shubbuck details a few marketable skills that anyone has the opportunity to learn or hone before departing.
Escape the Rat Race
Many people dream of leaving their regular routines to experience travel in far off and exotic lands. Nastaja Ferreira shares her story of realizing this dream and overcoming the hurdles of everyday life to make it happen.
Five Reasons to Take a Career Break
You’re stuck in the 9-5, fighting the cube wars day after day but you want more. Here Jennifer Miller shows us there’s no reason you can’t have it! Read on for five excellent reasons to hang up your dress shirt and take a year (or more) to redefine your life through a career break.
From Desk Job to Dream Job
Is it time for a change of scenery and lifestyle? Perhaps you want to experience the world from more than just behind a desk? Learn from Heidi N. Siefkas as she shares her triumphs and challenges in her move away from a desk job to a writer and tour guide through Cuba, Peru, and in 2014 Kauai, New Zealand, and Australia.
Get Paid to See the World: 12 of the Best Jobs that Combine Work and Travel
Some people simply don’t want to quit their jobs to travel. It’s quite risky, and if you aren’t in the position to do so but still want to travel, then Adam Seper is here to give you the low down on 12 different careers that combine work and travel.
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!
How Much Money Is Enough?
Many people who would love to travel long term don’t get past the budget stage of planning, assuming there’s no way they could afford it. Adam Seper is here to show you that you can afford it, and he breaks down costs of RTW travel along with giving tips to make it cheaper.
How Taking a Travel Break Ruined My Career
I took a career break to travel. This is what happened when I returned…
How a Career Break Can Change Your Life
People take career break trips for all different reasons. Adam Seper tells his story of how his career break gave him the confidence to go down a career path that he didn’t know was a possibility.
How to Deal With the Post-Trip Blues
The first time I returned home after a big trip, I spent my first month back in the states weeping, reconsidering my life here and wondering how I fit into this whole job/commute/9-5 thing. Really, I think anyone who has ever taken a break from what we westerners consider ‘Real Life’ has had a painful reality check when they arrive home.
How to Translate Around the World Travel Into Resume Gold
…You saved your money, quit your job, and traveled the world for a year. What now?
How to Travel More Without Quitting Your Job: 10 Tips for the Restless Desk-Jockey
Tired of singing the blues because work gets in the way of wanderlust? WhyGoCanada’s Julie Ovenell-Carter says it’s time to learn a new song with these practical solutions.
How to tell your family and friends you are leaving
So you are thinking about going around the world. How should you talk to your family and friends about leaving for a few years? Shikha Dhawan offers five very helpful pieces of advice.
I Put Travel On My Resume And It Got Me a Job
I returned from a year-long sabbatical in Asia without any sort of career waiting for me, but travel boosted my resume.
Leaving Corporate Life Behind
Many people quit their job and travel the world, but Adam Pervez quit his job and travels with the goal of leaving each place better than how he found it.
Making the Decision to Go – The Hardest Part of Long-Term Travel
Too many would-be long-term, round the world travelers and career breakers get bogged down in logistical details before they actually make the decision to go, and it puts them on the sidelines – sometimes for years. Without an emotional connection to the idea this experience and an actual decision, all those details don’t really matter.
Should You Quit Your Job to Travel in a Still Uncertain Economy?
The economy still sucks, but at least you have a job. Adam Seper is here to tell you why you should quit that job and take off on an extended trip. Crazy? Maybe not.
Sometimes You Just Need to Go
Last year I quit my job and left my life in Virginia behind to hit the road. I didn’t know what I was trying to achieve, I just knew that I needed to get out and get away–looking back, I was trying to escape from my life.
Swapping Your iPhone For a Backpack
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.
The Graceful Return: Don’t Let The End of A Trip Be the End of Your Learning
Why doesn’t anyone talk about what happens after a great trip? Cynthia Morris discusses how to integrate your travel experiences into life back home.
The Inside Scoop on Career Breaks
Take the advice of Meet, Plan, Go hosts and make your career break trip a reality.
Tips on Career Travel Breaks From a Seasoned Breaker
If the long hours with no overtime and only two weeks’ vacation have gotten to you, it may be time to consider taking some time for yourself on a career break to complete the trip you have always dreamed of. Take some advice from a teacher who has been fortunate enough to plan a “career break” every summer, to plan the best vacation experience for you to finally take time for yourself.
Top 10 Reasons to Take a Career Break… and Travel
If you are sitting in your cubicle daydreaming about escaping and traveling the world, then read these 10 reasons why you should put down your briefcase and pick up a backpack.
Wanna Travel Sooner?
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.
What International Travel Taught Me About Business Leadership
International travel is a great way to boost your resume and build real-world skills for your career at any age.
What To Do With Pets When You Take a Career Gap Year
…For most of us, pets form part of our extended family, so making sure they have somewhere to stay, that will keep them happy and safe is a big consideration in your career break planning.
Why a Travel Break Can Be the Best Career Move You’ll Ever Make
We talked to 20 people who have taken a career break to find out why they did it and how it changed their lives.
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