Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1116554 in Books
• Published on: 2003-06-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 576 pages

Review
"Packed with useful information that will steer you through the whole process... a mine of information that you won't want to be without". --Global Adventure Magazine "Good, sensible advice on seeking work". --The Times "The essential starting point for planning a working holiday". --The Observer
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Review

From the Back Cover
The eleventh edition of this 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.
You will find information on: picking olives in Greece; archaeological digs in Israel; erecting marquees in the UK; hostel work in Malta; yacht cleaning in Antigua; picking strawberries in Denmark; busking in Amsterdam; prawn fishing in Australia and much, much more.

Customer Reviews

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.

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 Leffel
author, 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.