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Best Vacations 2014 - Travel Destinations. Home « The Bold AcademyThe Bold Academy. Apply for The Bucket List Initiative - Passion Passport. Why You Should Scrap That Ladder-Climbing Plan And Go Backpacking Around The World, Instead. Attention all twentysomethings: Backpacking around the world will not help your resume. Get on a career track. It's likely that a stranger will help you develop your career more than your best friend. Remember: Typos and sick days matter. If you "live together first" with your significant other, you are actually more likely to divorce.

There is no reason to believe that your twenties will be the best years of your life. Those were a few pieces of advice from Dr. In her book, The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter And How To Make The Most Of Them Now she suggests that if you follow advice about "finding yourself" you'll waste your twenties and be a wreck by your thirties. How exciting! I think Dr. While I'm not advocating poor decisions, lazy behavior, and a hedonistic pursuit of self, I do encourage twentysomethings (and beyond) to tap into our hyper-connected Internet world to invent new careers, act on ideas, and create a life that drives them and the world forward.

Dr. Let's Go | The Student Travel Guide. Globe-Trekking: 5 Post-Grad Jobs to Travel the World. It’s that time of year, graduating collegiettes! You’ve packed up your bags, saved up your pennies and with diploma in hand, you’re ready to take on the world! But before you step off the graduation stage and buy that plane ticket to Barcelona, you might want to consider the different jobs and volunteer programs that can take you there for free—some complete with medical insurance and housing packages!

Whether you’re backpacking through Europe or bicycling across the African continent, there are plenty of professional and volunteer-based opportunities for you to fit some globe-trekking into your post-grad plans. 1. Tour guide This is probably the most obvious choice for limitless locales and paid-for flights, accommodations and day-to-day expenses. Brittany King, a graduate of the University of New Hampshire’s class of 2010, found a job as a hotel caterer and part-time tour guide through the BUNAC work abroad program. “I applied through BUNAC’s 4-month program,” Brittany said. 2. 3. Postgraduate Study Abroad Scholarships | The Study Abroad Blog. A lot of people don’t realize that studying abroad isn’t limited to undergraduate work. If you’re looking to continue your study abroad experience after graduation or begin a new one, here are some scholarship and award opportunities for postgraduate travel and study abroad to get you started.

The Fulbright Grants The Fulbright Grants support one year of post-graduate study overseas in any field. Awards are available to conduct independent research, to act as teaching assistants of English, or to support the projects of creative artists. There are about 1,100 awards each year sending American students to about 140 different countries. Each grant provides tuition (for those enrolled in a course of study), living expenses, travel costs and insurance as determined by the host country. The Rhodes Scholarship The Rhodes Scholarship allows for 2 or 3 years of study at Oxford University in any field.

The Marshall Scholarship The Mitchell Scholarship The Gates Cambridge Scholarship The St. The St. 42 Ways You Can Make Money and Travel the World. Have you ever asked yourself, “How will I possibly make money while traveling?” Or “How will I survive on the road?” Or maybe “How can I can’t start traveling when I don’t have much money?”. Chances are that these very thoughts have indeed crossed your mind (they cross all of our minds at some point!) And there’s also a chance that you haven’t found any answers. Here on the blog I’m always making the claim that you can make money and travel much more easily than most people think. Are you ready? Teach English – Job opportunities are all around the world and in many cases, you don’t need to be certified.

Sell Timeshares – If you were born to be a salesperson, then head to Greece, Thailand, Mexico, the Caribbean or any other major resort area and you can find work selling timeshares. Work in a Hostel – Hostels are often looking for new staff who are willing to work some hours each day, either at reception or cleaning or maybe both, in exchange for a free bed each night. Be Creative! Student and Postgrad Travel. The Best 23 Resources for Cheap, Free, or Paid Travel (Part 1) | escapenormal.

The Best 23 Resources for Cheap, Free, or Paid Travel (Part 1) Welcome to Escape Normal! If you came here looking for ways to travel for free, you are in the right place. From volunteer trips to vacations to short term jobs abroad, this list covers the spectrum of affordable and paid travel opportunities. Pair it with my eBook, “How to Become the Jack of All Travel: A Beginner’s Guide to Traveling the World for Free,” and you will be well on your way to living your travel dreams. 1: Work Away Definitely my new favorite site, I haven’t yet signed up for membership but I plan on doing so immediately after I graduate. 2: Escape Normal Jobs Search for seasonal jobs all over the world, from work-exchanges on exotic retreat centers in Costa Rica to adventure kayak tour-guide positions. 3: Back Door Jobs This is for the adventurous type who still wants to make money while traveling. 4: Coolworks 5: Couchsurfing This is a great resource, especially for younger people. 7: Help Exchange 9: Kibbutz.

Top 5 Reasons to Travel After Graduation - Why You Should Travel After Graduation. Chances are that your parents didn't travel after school (the majority of US citizens don't have passports), and maybe don't think you need to, either. And after you graduate from college, it's implied that you'll go straight to work for the rest of your young-enough-to-travel life.

UK students, on the other hand, hit the road to Europe running right after finishing secondary school -- it's called a gap year, and means a year of traveling or life before or after college. You should take a gap year, too. Why? A million reasons you'll never regret... here are just five: 1. You're Free: School's out for the summer -- for some of you, school is out forever. 2. Some of the best travel discounts around are those given to 12-26 year-olds. 3. Believe it! 4. 5. Get Gone: Those million more reasons to travel that we mentioned? Planning Student Travel. Before you travel, do some student travel planning -- life on the road will be easier if you know what you need and at least a little about where you're going, what you're doing, how you'll get there and where you can stay. Read a complete student travel planning roundup -- this is Student Travel 101. Get documents you need for student travel Before you start your student travel, you'll probably need a passport, and you may need a tourist visa, an international work visa, immunizations records and an international health certificate, an international driver's license and more.

Learn what travel documents you will and may need for student travel, how and where to get them before you travel, what to do with travel document copies and how much they will cost. Learn how to pack Hopping continents while hauling mounds of luggage is a gigantic drag. Decide where you're going You've got the whole world on your map.

Decide if you're working, studying, volunteering or just traveling. Blogging for Money - Make Money Blogging While Traveling and Travel Blogging for Money. How to pay for travel is the eternal question for student travelers and backpackers. A job that travels with you, like blogging for money, is a solution whose time has come. Getting online to work is getting easier worldwide, even from the unbeaten paths (more on that below). Takes some serious time to set up a good blog, though, and you won't make a ton of money blogging unless you really work it like a job. Let's look into all the details of blogging for money (scroll down for more). Is Your Blog Idea Worth Money? Before you go much further, you should understand how blogs make money and how you can make money blogging.

Your Own Blog, or Get Paid to Blog? It's becoming more and more possible to get paid to blog for someone else. Find a Blog Topic Whether you've got an idea for a blog that will really make you some money -- well, that's the million dollar question. How Much Time DO Bloggers Spend Online? You have to spend a fair amount of time online to keep up a blog. Good Luck!