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Work Your Way Around the World, 11th
This eleventh edition of the unique and acclaimed guide for the working traveler explains how to find temporary work around the world, not only in advance, but also when on the spot while traveling. It incorporates hundreds of first-hand accounts from people who have actually done the jobs with the finest hard factual information to offer authoritative advice on how to find work. Work Your Way Around the World gives information on all the main areas of temporary work including the tourist industry, agriculture, teaching English, childcare, and voluntary work, plus insiders' information on how to work a passage or to earn money by using your initiative when you spot a local opportunity. This book provides dates and details of harvests from Denmark to New Zealand, childcare jobs and voluntary projects worldwide, and explains how to become a barmaid, pineapple picker, film extra, jackaroo, ranch hand, prawn fisherman, camp councelor, etc.
576 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1983
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February 25, 2022
loaded with practical advice!
This book is something else! Highly recommend for anyone looking for work, no matter where in the world you find yourself. Just bare in mind that finding work may be easier in some countries than others. But if you want a chance to travel the world and work…. READ THIS BOOK!!!
This book is something else! Highly recommend for anyone looking for work, no matter where in the world you find yourself. Just bare in mind that finding work may be easier in some countries than others. But if you want a chance to travel the world and work…. READ THIS BOOK!!!
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April 29, 2016From Cool Tools Website, Kevin Kelly's Review 5/30/12 (http://kk.org/cooltools/work-your-way-a/ ):
The endless summer
It’s many a graduate’s dream — pay your way as you travel around the world. I lived the dream myself when I was younger, so I know it is possible. Since then I’ve been tracking this subject faithfully, and have read through scores of books and websites offering how-to advice on the dream. They won’t hurt, but this fantastic book — now in its 14th edition! — is really the only one that will give you much help before you leave.
Most of these kind of books are a bunch of hand-waving generalities, or out of date particulars; this one is very specific and very current. It is massively researched, with tons of incoming gossip on where the easily-gotten jobs are this year, and what to do about paperwork and visas in that particular place, and how to land the job, and what you should expect, and letters from those who just did it. It’s all very helpful, practical and inspiring. But don’t get your hopes too high. There are really only two kinds of dependable quick jobs to be found “around the world”: 1) In the service industry in Europe — working at hotels, resorts, bars, camps for other tourists; and 2) teaching English in Asia. For most kids, that’ll be enough. There are hundreds of exceptions to these two, and this book will do its best to point you to them, but they are far fewer, and more dependent on chance. But even that skill — cultivating chance — is tackled with great intelligence in this meaty book, which I can’t recommend too much.
The author Susan Griffith is very prolific and at the center of a number of other related ongoing books, also recommended. Teaching English Abroad, Your Gap Year, and Summer Jobs Worldwide.
It is extremely difficult for anyone whose mother tongue is English to starve in an inhabited place, since there are always people who will pay good money to watch you display a talent as basic as talking...
The endless summer
It’s many a graduate’s dream — pay your way as you travel around the world. I lived the dream myself when I was younger, so I know it is possible. Since then I’ve been tracking this subject faithfully, and have read through scores of books and websites offering how-to advice on the dream. They won’t hurt, but this fantastic book — now in its 14th edition! — is really the only one that will give you much help before you leave.
Most of these kind of books are a bunch of hand-waving generalities, or out of date particulars; this one is very specific and very current. It is massively researched, with tons of incoming gossip on where the easily-gotten jobs are this year, and what to do about paperwork and visas in that particular place, and how to land the job, and what you should expect, and letters from those who just did it. It’s all very helpful, practical and inspiring. But don’t get your hopes too high. There are really only two kinds of dependable quick jobs to be found “around the world”: 1) In the service industry in Europe — working at hotels, resorts, bars, camps for other tourists; and 2) teaching English in Asia. For most kids, that’ll be enough. There are hundreds of exceptions to these two, and this book will do its best to point you to them, but they are far fewer, and more dependent on chance. But even that skill — cultivating chance — is tackled with great intelligence in this meaty book, which I can’t recommend too much.
The author Susan Griffith is very prolific and at the center of a number of other related ongoing books, also recommended. Teaching English Abroad, Your Gap Year, and Summer Jobs Worldwide.
It is extremely difficult for anyone whose mother tongue is English to starve in an inhabited place, since there are always people who will pay good money to watch you display a talent as basic as talking...
October 15, 2015
Primarily focused on tips and ideas for the UK more than the States, so a lot of things depend on being a member of the EU and the easy travel between countries that affords you.
Good for getting ideas on where to do further research, but definitely not indispensable if you’re good at doing internet searches.
Good for getting ideas on where to do further research, but definitely not indispensable if you’re good at doing internet searches.
November 13, 2008
someday.....
March 20, 2016
This was an interesting read, but considering the current global climate and the fact that the book was written in 2005, it feels very out of date.
November 20, 2018
I read the 17th edition. Plenty of good content focused on the more well-known countries out there. At times a bit UK-centric but it’s not a problem.
October 15, 2015
Just another reminder of why I wish I had an Australian/European Passport...
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