The World On A Shoestring: Your Ultimate Guide To Traveling Long-Term On The Cheap
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Jobs On The Road
Working Holiday/Seasonal Jobs
You may know Australia as the number one destination for a working holiday. If your home country has a bi-lateral agreement with Australia, you can simply apply for the working holiday visa online. With the visa you can live and work there for one year and can even extend it for another year if you do farm work. Australia is not the only country offering this visa. New Zealand, Canada and the EU are popular countries for working holidays as well. If countries do not offer those visa, you can still work seasonal jobs in hotels, bars or diving schools for example. Here are some websites, you can use to find a seasonal job which suits your skills:Teach English
If you are a native English speaker, all doors are open for you to teach English abroad. Simply do an online TEFL course in which you learn some basic teaching principles as well as repeat English grammar. With this certificate, you can find jobs almost everywhere. Make use of the following job boards to find one:- Dave’s ESL Cafe
- i-to-i Job Board
Workaway/WWOOF
If you are willing to work for a couple of hours a day in order to have a free accommodation and sometimes even food, I recommend you to do either WWOOFing or Workaway. The abbreviation WWOOF means World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms. You have to register for each country or group of countries separately and pay a small fee in order to get access to the WWOOF host database. You then contact farms and apply for a job in exchange of accommodation and board. You can also find all kinds of different jobs on Workaway. Again, you pay a small fee (currently 23.00 €/about $30 USD for two years) to be able to apply for the jobs. The fee includes access to the the database of all their hosts in 135 countries. The job advertisement displays the tasks you need to fulfill, how many hours you have to work, what you are going to get as an exchange and possibly some photos of the location as well as reviews by former workers.Work Location Independent
There are many jobs you can do location independent. You don’t need to have that one big business idea. There are a lot of freelance opportunities out there, where you find your customers and collaborate for one or several projects together. Even though the most common jobs include web design, programming jobs or technical support, there are jobs you can do without an IT background like writing, blogging and translating jobs or virtual assistance.Adapt Your Travel Style
Apart from jobs you can do on the road, to make your money last longer, you should adapt your travel style. You cannot stay in all inclusive resorts and be a total tourist all the time. The more local you travel, the less you spend and the longer you are able to travel.Travel slowly
The majority of your costs are for transportation and accommodation. If you stay longer in one place and travel more intensively instead of seeing as much as you can, you will spend less money. You do not only save money for getting from A to B every day, there are also a lot of deals for accommodation you can make use of. Ask your hostel beforehand for long stay deals or book an apartment for a month with the help of Airbnb. And the best thing about traveling slowly apart from saving money: You make better friends when you have more time, are traveling in a more eco-friendly manner, become less tired and stressed and have a better chance of truly immersing yourself in local culture.Photo courtesy of Nana B. Agyei.