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Basically traveling, living abroad and having to use your mind [intelligence] is what I am searching for.
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The first thing that comes to mind is journalism. If you want to live abroad, travel a lot, and have the intellectual challenge of assimilating into other cultures, then you could set your goal to become a special correspondent of a region for an international news broadcaster (such as CNN, BBC, Fox, or Al Jazeera) or publication (such as Time, Newsweek, or The Wall Street Journal).
Another thing is to apply for jobs in cable TV's such as Discovery Travel and Living. They have shows about travel and lifestyle in different parts of the world, and need someone intelligent who learns new things fast in order to host their shows. Must be fun loving and interactive too.
A less obvious job is to teach abroad in international schools. I live in Jakarta, Indonesia, and have friends from North America, Australia, India, and Europe working as expat teachers in international schools. They get to work in an English speaking environment, but at the same time, get to be in a foreign country, interacting with people from different nationalities, including locals. The pay is great, and so are the vacations, which you may choose to spend on travelling the country and then some. If you come to Indonesia, an idea to spend your vacation is to backpack to exciting places like Tana Toraja, Bali-Lombok, Bunaken Marine Park, the royal city of Yogyakarta, Raja Ampat Island resorts, Baliem Valley, and Lake Toba. Bali, in particular, offers a lot of culture tourism where you could even live in the villages and learn traditional skills like Balinese cooking, dance, shadow puppets, gamelan music, sculpting, painting, etc.
My dad works for a multinational mining company (American) and has colleagues from many countries, including the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, UK, Africa, and Chile. They mostly come from engineering, accounting, and management backgrounds.
My cousin works for a finance company. She is a New Zealand citizen who studied in Canada, and now splits between New York and London with the company she interned with in her final year of school. I have another cousin who is an Indonesian citizen; she studied and worked in California for a few years, but now is taking dance school in Singapore and working part time.
My fiance's dad used to work for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in our country. I don't know what he studied in college, and as far as I know he's just an administrative worker (clerk) with big dreams. But he managed to travel to and live in Switzerland (where he and his wife had my fiance), Sweden (where they had my fiance's brother), Italy, The Netherlands, and Belgium, where he was working for the embassy. He never really picked up English or any other languages, and his mindset remains the same as the village peasant with big dreams of the big city, but at least he managed to secure a really good education for all three of his children, and they are all embarking on successful careers now.
If you want to follow his footsteps but actually use your brains, then maybe you want to take a bachelor's degree in International Relations and work your way up to become your country's ambassador.
Has anybody ever traveled far away ALONE?
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I'm planning a trip alone for January 2008 to...not sure yet: India,Afica or Europe. Would anybody like to share their experience with me? Especially if your a woman, divorced and leaving 3 kids (2 teenagers and 9 yr old boy) with the ex for 15-20 days. You see, it'll be my first trip ALONE and WITHOUT my kids and i'm scared i'll get so home sick without them that i'll want to take the first plane back!
Thanks everybody!
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I'm a year older than you are but had my children much later. My oldest is younger than your youngest! I worked for the airlines and travelled, mainly alone through most of the world, visiting almost 60 countries.
I was big on backpacking and youth hostelling. It was funny as people would ask "But don't the airlines provide you with a hotel?" Yes they did...when I was working! I liked hostels because you get to meet tons of people and no, they're not all teenagers. Most are young but they tend to be a bit more educated and aware then those you'll find hanging out outside 7-11's back home.
http://www.hihostels.com/web/index.en.htm?linkid=980019&linksubid=overseas
I also did rail passes. These are great because not only are they great value but you really see the country and hang out with local people, not just tourists. I took ten days off, arrived in Zurich, bought my railpass in the airport and just took off seeing the country for 10 days. Much prettier than by road (experience with both!)
http://www.eurorailways.com/?source=y-aa-10&OVRAW=eurorail&OVKEY=eurorail&OVMTC=standard&OVADID=499732522&OVKWID=1875258022
My favorite guide is Lonley Planet. Having used many, I'm not as happy with others;
http://www.lonelyplanet.com/
Rough Guides are good too but LP rules the roost for me. I don't recommend the guy named Rick Steves but he does give good information. It's a little limiting.
http://www.ricksteves.com/home.htm
I do also recommend Europe. I was just in Greece. You can simply go to the port in Athens and grab a ferry going to any of the islands. It was beautiful.
I wouldn't suggest Africa or India only because of the personal safety aspect. I had to be much more "on-guard" there then elsewhere and frankly, it's better to do those places with other people. Both are very different culturally and it can be isolating when wandering around on your own. Don't misread me though, I love both places. I'm just thinking "woman, alone, first time..."
Otherwise, Asia too is very easy. Well, most of it. Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong and Thailand are great for a woman alone. I know from experience and lived in HK for a year and a half. China, Vietnam, Malaysia and Korea were a bit more challenging. Maybe not for a "first timer" but also fabulous places none-the-less.
Australia and New Zealand, either/or. Piece of cake. Great sights, great food, great looking guys...you can't go wrong in either. The only downside is that it might not be exotic enough. Depends on what you want but definitely an easy ride.
If it's any consolation, I too used to get butterflies every time I went somewhere new, even after 30, 40, 50 countries. All part of the adventure. Tell yourself, it's normal and you'll get over it. So worthwhile.
Just GO!
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