I have quit my job..I want to see the world! where shall I go?
#16
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Congratulations on having the courage to what you want. I took a year off awhile ago and did a road trip of North America . my suggestion would be to pick the places you really want to go and buld your itinerary around that.
Most of all HAVE FUN!!!
If you make it to the Southeastern US look me up
Most of all HAVE FUN!!!
If you make it to the Southeastern US look me up
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The OP certainly has some places in mind where he absolutely wants (not) to go
The RTW cruise sounds nice but will exceed the budget or at least swallow a big part of it ! Also it doesnt take that long as no RTW cruise I have seen the itinerary from took longer than 9 months.
In my eyes for that purpose Asia and South America are excellent choices ! Your GBP is worth alot at these places and the landscape is fascinating. Add it up with a little bit of Australia, NZ and Tasmania, maybe obtain something like a holiday work visa of some kind if necessary to top up the budget ! If you need it at the end or not, it's good to have the opportunity then.
Enjoy and maybe you do a blog on your trip. Would be nice to read !
The RTW cruise sounds nice but will exceed the budget or at least swallow a big part of it ! Also it doesnt take that long as no RTW cruise I have seen the itinerary from took longer than 9 months.
In my eyes for that purpose Asia and South America are excellent choices ! Your GBP is worth alot at these places and the landscape is fascinating. Add it up with a little bit of Australia, NZ and Tasmania, maybe obtain something like a holiday work visa of some kind if necessary to top up the budget ! If you need it at the end or not, it's good to have the opportunity then.
Enjoy and maybe you do a blog on your trip. Would be nice to read !
#19
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Thank you so so much for all your suggestions and help. I have a lot of research to do.
So far I was thinking of spending 6 months and visit as many places as possible in South america. I am doing a TEFL traing at the end of the month with will enable me to teach English anywhere in the world. I thought it might be nice to do this in Asia and again see as many places as possible. then I would like to go Southern Africa it would be a shame to miss it and the safaris, then Australia, New Zealand and Tazimania.
I plan on working where I can and I am in the middle of sorting out working visas. I know I am going to need to pop up my funds but I plan on keep cost down as much as possible and definetly dont mind roughing it.
Yeh I will write a blog it would be interesting to see where I end up. 1-2years is just a pie in the sky. If I can keep going then I will try and keep on travelling for as long as I can.
So far I was thinking of spending 6 months and visit as many places as possible in South america. I am doing a TEFL traing at the end of the month with will enable me to teach English anywhere in the world. I thought it might be nice to do this in Asia and again see as many places as possible. then I would like to go Southern Africa it would be a shame to miss it and the safaris, then Australia, New Zealand and Tazimania.
I plan on working where I can and I am in the middle of sorting out working visas. I know I am going to need to pop up my funds but I plan on keep cost down as much as possible and definetly dont mind roughing it.
Yeh I will write a blog it would be interesting to see where I end up. 1-2years is just a pie in the sky. If I can keep going then I will try and keep on travelling for as long as I can.
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Go work in Cairns, AU for a while. Get your basic dive cert before you go and you can work on a dive boat as a cook or something. That'll give you some pocket change, let you get your dive master cert and meet a ton of people from everywhere. Then move on from there...
#22
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I never heard of somebody quiting a job because they want to see the world, I would rather start with a visit to a phsychiatrist than to travel info sites, this requires some really serious evaluation.
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Obviously, you'd need to find a way of making some cash if you were to perpetually keep travelling, but £15000 is quite a lot of money indeed for most people on this planet!
#24
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If the OP has the budget and courage to do it, more power to her/him.
"Remember, if you don't do it this year, you'll be one year older when you do" - Warren Miller.
I guess I was nuts to quit my job and move to ski country too. However, can't afford a psychiatrist, need to get new carving skis to round out the quiver along with the mid-fats, and powder skis.
OP - go for it as long as you're not risking taking care of true responsibilities to family. Don't worry about the work/career thing - your travels may open new doors to you in directions you never knew you wanted to explore.
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Garaps had some good advice on finances. I wish I was in your position. That said, I'd work first and travel third. By that, I mean do your visiting of first world countries as places that you stop to work and then travel in places where the cost of living is much lower. I'd put some thought into places you really wanted to go and get an idea of an overall 'itinerary'. Make sure to plan to document your travels with a journal and pictures.
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I'd say, go to Australia, go to Sydney, find a place called Kings Cross and buy a used van off another backpacker for a few hundred dollars. travel around the country 6 months and scuba the reef or hike around the outback and enjoy it. Then head to NZ South Island for 3-4 weeks, see what they know and then end up somewhere in SE Asia for a while and let your stuff get stolen. There's a bar out there called "The 4 floors of wh0res" and you could probably have some fun in there as well! (sorry I loved it when I heard that name!)
then come back, write about it, make money on the book and never push pencils in cubicles again!
woo hoo!
MM
then come back, write about it, make money on the book and never push pencils in cubicles again!
woo hoo!
MM
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If the OP has the budget and courage to do it, more power to her/him.
"Remember, if you don't do it this year, you'll be one year older when you do" - Warren Miller.
I guess I was nuts to quit my job and move to ski country too. However, can't afford a psychiatrist, need to get new carving skis to round out the quiver along with the mid-fats, and powder skis.
OP - go for it as long as you're not risking taking care of true responsibilities to family. Don't worry about the work/career thing - your travels may open new doors to you in directions you never knew you wanted to explore.
get Stockli skis...
great in every condition!
and yeah, I think quitting a JOB to LIVE is precisely what many of us ought to do! Staying in some nowhere dead end gig listening to someone else talk down at you all day like in the movie, Office Space is the real crazy way of exisistence, isnt it? Break out, man!
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I also did it once and it GREATLY improved my life. Travelpro2008, maybe YOU should consider it too!
#30
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I think life is tooo short to spend it struggling to pay bills. I figured that I didnt come on this earth hankering for the grind of a 9-5 existence or to taste the exhiliration of a traffic jams or the delights of getting to 90 and regretting on having taken more risks.
I am 29 and I know the older I get the harder it would be to live this dream, so why not do it now, if not now then when?