Work Your Way Around the World

by Susan Griffith and Susa Griffith

Book Overview

A unique and acclaimed guide for working travelers that explains how to find all types of temporary work around the world not only in advance, but also when on the spot while traveling. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1854583298
• ISBN13: 9781854583291
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Vacation-Work
• Length: 568 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Great book for Working Vacations

This is a great book to help you finance your working vacation abroad by doing low skilled work. The next book college grads should consider purchasing if they are interested in "professional" international work and internship experiences is The BIG Guide to Living and Working Overseas. Check it out.

Best all-around guide and fun to read

While this book is written from a British perspective, it is an excellent guide for anyone who wants to travel around the world on limited funds. The author relies on "been there done that" travelers to supply information and anecdotes from the road and I can vouch from experience that those nuggets show up in revised editions. I bought this book before my first trip around the world and it led to my first English teaching job--in Istanbul, Turkey. (Griffith's Teaching English Abroad title is a good guide for the teaching path specifically). This is also a good book to read when deciding what you're NOT willing to do. Comparing some of these jobs to working another few months at home instead to save more money puts things in perspective.Understand that this is a guide to short-term work opportunities, so it does focus on ways to make enough to get to the next destination. It's not an international career guide, but rather an inside scoop on where to get paid while you travel. It's an entertaining read and a good investment for shoestring travelers.Tim Leffelauthor, The World's Cheapest Destinations

Buy this book!!!

If you're interested in working while you travel this is thebook to read before you go! Although the book is written from theEuropean traveler's perspective, the latest edition does also give advice on how Americans can find jobs in the discussed regions. Particularly helpful are the author's specific recommendations of places to look (i.e. likely streets, areas, and companies). The one thing I appreciates about this book, is that it's realistic. She doesn't tell you that you're job search is going to be easy when it in all liklihood will not. When you're seriously planning to go abroad you don't want rhetoric, you want reality and that is what the author provides.

Better than excellent

This book changed my life. It showed me one doesn't have to follow the route of college, then graduation, then job for life. I bought this book, then worked for three years in London, Spain, and Cairo in the late 1980s and early 1990s. I supported myself and even managed to save money. While personally enriching, my experiences have impressed -- bar none -- every employer with whom I have interviewed over the past seven years. Had I not taken time off, I'd be like many other adults who regret not taking advantage of their youth and lack of committments to explore the world and themselves.If you have any desire to explore, do yourself a favor -- buy the book, then buy your plane ticket.

inspired

This book is for EVERYONE! Not just europeans. Pick it up and get inspired to leave your job. Don't expect to find a guaranteed job abroad, this is for ADVENTUROUS people who don't need a sure bet before they leave. It is impossible for americans to find a european job before they leave, but not impossible to find a job abroad (with this book). An excellent choice!