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How To Travel The World By Crewing On Yachts

The best yachts are other people's yachts. [...]

World’s Best Places to Busk

It's possible to make some extra cash with a little talent. All you have to do is choose the right place. [...]

Ethnomusicology: Travel the World through Music

Ethnomusicologists travel broadly and help to preserve culture. [...]

How to Fund Your Travels Playing Online Poker

Need to raise money to travel the world? Online poker might be the ace up your sleeve. [...]

Top 10 Online Resources for Finding a Job in Asia

A comprehensive list of the best online resources for finding work from Singapore to the Maldives. [...]

Join the Navy, See the World

The traditional way most people have "seen the world" is largely overlooked today. Take another look.  [...]

The Best Seasonal Jobs for Traveling Pt. 2

Looking for a change in direction? These jobs can initiate a whole new travel experience. [...]

How To Become A Wildlife Biologist

Aside from the romance, what can you really expect from this career? Find out here. [...]

How to Get Work Teaching English As A Second Language

Wanting to secure a job that allows nearly unlimited travel options? Teaching English to Speakers of other Languages (ESOL) can afford you the financi [...]

How to Become a Bush Pilot

Being a paid pilot is not always as romantic as the movies portray. Some pilots refer to it as being a glorified taxi driver. Many pilots flying small [...]

The Life of a Diplomat

Cocktail parties, foreign dignitaries, expense accounts – the stereotypical life of a diplomat hardly meshes with the Matador philosophy of greener, [...]

Becoming a Geologist

For the longest time I thought my dad had the coolest job on earth – visiting oil rigs in the middle of the Atlantic ocean, taking helicopter trips  [...]

How To Get On the Ski Patrol

Have you skied 30 days a year for as long as you can remember? Did you ever write to Warren Miller and tell him that you were the next skiing sensatio [...]

How to Become a Boat Captain

Being a boat captain has its perks. You are the Top Dog, The Man in charge, the alpha-chicken in the boat world’s pecking order. You can work anywhe [...]

How to Get Work On An Alaskan Fishing Boat

So you want a little adventure? Test the limits of your energy ? Make some money? Bask in some of the most amazing natural beauty anywhere? Good.  [...]

How to Become a Wildland Firefighter

So, you have a summer to kill, a hankering for adventure, and you wouldn't mind saving some pristine forest or maybe a family's home from an inferno?  [...]

How to Work New Zealand’s Wineries

There are hundreds of vineyards and organic wineries in New Zealand and most are on the lookout for seasonal workers to prune and help with the harves [...]

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