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Old 04-18-2006, 07:48 AM   #101
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^^^ Reading that made me very happy, Bueno

I'm going into education and some of the reasons I chose the field (secondary math) were opportunities for travel, help the community/society, get involved with coaching (soccer's my sport, too), etc. Glad to hear from someone those aren't unrealistic goals!
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Old 04-18-2006, 09:40 AM   #102
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Fair play olabueno i totally agree. Although when i finished uni i would have laughed if somebody told me i would be teaching soon, its what ended up happening after i saw with my own eyes what it was like ot work for brokerage firms in the city of london.

Now i teach maths at a college (note that college is 16-18 in england, and uni is 18-21). Sometimes i work my knackers off, but i do get 13 weeks holiday a year. The kids are really funny and just about mature enough to understand my puerile sense of humour. Tell me what other job gives you more than a quarter of your year off, and i'll quit tommorow.

Also, like you say futboller, there are plenty of opportunities for working overseas. There are british international schools all over the world, and when i qualify, i'm hopefully headed to the USA. or fiji, i dunno.

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Old 04-18-2006, 01:44 PM   #103
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ya my mom is a teacher and when we lived on an air force base she tought ESL to francophones and made a decent chunk of change for a couple hours work a day. it was funny though cause the military was more concerned with teaching them about military terms in english then functional english. all of their sentences involved planes, or submarines, or guns haha
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Old 04-18-2006, 01:54 PM   #104
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i am a filmmaker. direct commercials and yes TRAVEL!!
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Old 04-18-2006, 02:14 PM   #105
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I am currently a student, needing a job while on campus. But I will be working at a Jewish country club as a valet again! It was great last year. Theres also a possibility that I will be interning with a large corp in finance stuff. This summer I need to make lotsa money tho, so my trip at the end of the summ will be more...plentiful and so I can have some money for school.
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Old 04-19-2006, 04:16 PM   #106
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Promoting, modeling, editing & media production, musical consultant, Bunch of odd jobs, Spinnin' (I guess is where my true passion is) music, being in various bands, working in my families Galleries and being the head of the north eastern Naranja Blue, That's about it but mostly I get my money for and from my education as a Culinary art/ wacky mayors I have. And I'm only 19 yey! :greenguy:
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Old 04-19-2006, 05:06 PM   #107
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I'm just about to finish my degree, a 3 year psychology BSc at the University of Kent, UK. I just have to take 3 exams then I'm done with uni for good. I work part time in a menswear shop called Burton. It is pretty rubbish to say the least.

Hopefully after uni and travelling I'll get onto a graduate scheme into prison management, or I'll try applying for a couple of jobs in MI5.
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Old 01-09-2007, 03:28 AM   #108
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We are all world travellers (or soon to be :-). How do you do it? Where do you make your money to travel? Maybe I need a new career so I can travel more (yeah!).

I'll start: Web Designer. I get 4 weeks paid vacation a year. Before that I was a 6 1/2 year student, which made it much easier to travel. Full time has its benefits (more money) but drawbacks too (less free time, no summer breaks, have to pay back instead of live on my student loans )

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For the last two years I've been working part-time in a factory whilst studying business. I've saved up some cash and am now officially a 'soon to be' world traveller.

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Well, I finished uni in May, I did psychology. During that time, I saved up money by working in a men's clothing store during term time, and various admin jobs during the summer holidays. I went on a three month trip in September, and that used all my money up!

I'm currently not working, but I'm looking for something. There's a possibility of a job doing admin in the child protection department of the police, which I hope I get. Again, that's only temporary work, as I'll hopefully be going back to uni in September to do another course. When I will be broke again!
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At this very moment i am a shop assistant in a fabric store. I'm just doing it between getting back from overseas in december and starting uni in a few weeks. Before my trip I worked the same job, as well as working in an italian restaurant and then in a hotel doing housekeeping and waitressing. umm next I'll be a student.. hopefully the government will give me just enough free money so i dont have to get a job. although if i ever want to travel again...
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Old 01-09-2007, 06:35 AM   #112
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I work for a large hated corporation in Canada....TELUS!! It's alright because I hate them too....but I actually like my job. I work in a department called Network Operations...IT stuff. Until this winter when I take an extended leave to travel indefinetiley.
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Old 01-09-2007, 07:01 AM   #113
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I'm a secretary in the army. I like my job, though it's gotten kind of boring in the past months. I graduated from Uni this past December, and I'm thinking of quitting my job when I come back from Europe in June and search for something more to do with what I studied (Public and Institutional Relations).
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Old 01-09-2007, 07:37 AM   #114
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I've been working in Iraq for the past couple of years. I was bored in college and wanted to save money and travel a little. Should be coming back for good in a few weeks, then I'll be a student again in the Fall!
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I'm an engineer with a large unnamed Aerospace/Defense Contractor in the United States. I like my job, get to do a fair bit of travelling around the US, and they pay me waaay more than I deserve. All in all, not bad.
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I work for the man, at a mortgage company that specializes in giving loans to people with bad credit. Essentially, I am helping rich men get richer by giving high interest rate loans to people who can't afford it.

I hate my job and feel my own integrity dwindling every day when I sit in my cube.

But on the bright side, I am quitting in April to go to Europe for a couple months and then I will *hopefully* be going back to school in the fall to get a Master's in Ecology, which is much more fitting for a girl with an Environmental Science degree
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I just started working for a fundraising company. Basically I get paid to smile at people and ask if they want to donate to UNICEF. It's really fun and it pays pretty decent too.
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I'm a hostess and only work one day a week (usually around every other week cause of my busy schedule). But, it gives me a hundred extra bucks every two week, so I'm really not complaining .
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I work as an in-home caregiver for disabled adults and play semi-pro football (No, the football doesn't pay, but it takes up enough time to count as a job...) I'm lucky in that my income is a bit more than my outgoing expenses, so I'm just saving up slowly but surely..
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Old 01-09-2007, 06:49 PM   #120
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I do creative/graphics/web stuff for Ze French, but with the benefit of doing so in California - nicer weather than Paris, better snowboarding, fewer transit strikes.

So I get French-style bennies (entirely too much holiday, 100% health benefits, lots of beer and wine), without taking as much shit from other 'Merkins as they do.

And since our company has offices worldwide, if I happen to travel to a place that has one (like last week in Barcelona), I get to keep one of my days off if I go have lunch with 'em.

The global economy isn't so bad, as long as you're still with one of the little guys in it! :D
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