you're in college or you just graduated from college and maybe you're thinking
about diving right into your career but you also kind of want to go traveling
for a while live the dream for like a year or maybe
a couple years or maybe even like six months or a month the big question is
how do you travel and go live the dream without leaving a giant hole in your
resume well my name is Eddie I'm a wildlife biologist and between the ages
of 20 and 25 I lived abroad and traveled for half of that time about two and a
half years and I left no holes in my resume in fact it helped me get into
grad school and get a job after grad school and I'm gonna explain to you how
you can travel the world without leaving a hole in your resume right after this
so the number one tip I have okay to travel without leaving a whole new
resume might be kind of obvious but it's to work remotely you know whatever
career it is I mean if you're just on a laptop if you can do it all online I've
met people who are constantly traveling the world on their laptop working 40
hours a week but they just have fun because they're traveling and a lot of
times are in places they're in countries that are a relatively low cost of living
compared to their salary they're able to pretty much live in a hostel while
working and maybe even save a lot of money now the drawback to that is you
are still working it's not just like complete vacation sure maybe you're
working like next to the beach but maybe you're the type of person who you're
like hey man when I'm traveling when I'm on vacation I just want to live the
dream I don't want to freaking work so how you actually take like a real chunk
of time real big chunk of time where you can just travel okay what my
recommendation would be is to do like some type of gig where you're somewhere
where you're not really working like a full-time professional level job like
you would in the previous scenario where you're doing something else that still
looks good on your resume so you're looking to like go to business school or
law school or med school or you know grad school for academics or if you're
looking for some high professional job you know working in like a hostel you
know just or working as a bartender now that's not gonna look as good on your on
your resume as like some other things you could do I just use myself as an
example after college I went to Latin America
and I got a gig volunteering then I got a gig teaching and then I got a gig
doing academic research those are all examples of things that you could do
volunteering I think it's really good because you know it's outreach and but
to any job okay on any resume volunteering in an exotic place looks
better than just you know saying yeah I just went traveling for fun for that
whole time and I was just a tourist all the time if you're volunteering it shows
that you care about something I don't know if it shows it but at least it
suggests that so what are some examples of volunteer work well you can volunteer
in freaking orphanage you can volunteer building houses in the third-world
country for people trying to get into med school for example you might want to
volunteer at you know a clinic and medical clinic you should do a type of
volunteer work that you know is related to like what you want to do as a career
what I did I was in Mexico for a year and I was doing academic research which
was directly related to what I wanted to do as a career as a wildlife biologist
was related to what I wanted to go to grad school for and you know I mentioned
teaching I would say teaching looks really good on resumes as well you're
doing something productive you're doing something intellectual there's all kinds
of options to teach in other countries various types of fellowships that
different organizations give out to tea there's all types of organizations that
allow you to teach English in other places
there's Teach for America I think that's like kind of hard to get but a lot of
these gigs are harder to get than others a lot of these opportunities will
actually pay for your stay when I taught in Costa Rica they paid for everything
they pay for me to get down there they paid for all my room and board when I
did academic research in Mexico they paid for everything too they covered all
my living expenses and it turned out that I actually had a lot of free time
to travel around and do a lot of cool things when I was in Mexico the research
was his full-time for part of the year and it was only part-time for the other
part of the year when I was in Costa Rica I pretty much on average taught for
three weeks and then I had like a week off the fourth week so I can go travel I
use pretty much the money that I saved the stipend to go in see other parts of
Costa Rica so whether it's volunteering or teaching or doing research or
whatever else my advice to you okay is to get some type of gig that makes it
look like you care on your resume and makes it at least look like you're doing
something try to get one that pays you as much as possible which a lot of types
of opportunities a lot of fellowships do and chances are you'll have free time to
travel whether it's before or after or during during the breaks that you have
for whatever you're doing down there so that's what I did for two years I made
it to almost every single country in Central America I had the most fun and
to be honest how much work that I actually do for the work that I did I
worked hard and I did it well but I was living the good life man I was doing a
lot of fun stuff in Central America I was surfing I was partying I was doing a
lot of bird-watching hiking exploring Maya temples just living the absolute
dream now number three is the best way to go traveling without leaving a hole
in your resume and that is to study abroad first of all I feel like studying
abroad at least in my country in the United States it's probably more
socially acceptable than taking a gap year okay I'm not saying that taking a
gap year isn't socially acceptable but I feel like there are probably more that
more people United States do a semester abroad then actually take a gap year
after college to go traveling the thing about studying abroad is you know it's
all set up for you when I studied abroad I took pretty easy
classes I just made sure that I wasn't locked down on school the whole time
because you know I wanted to take advantage of the fact that I was abroad
that I could do a lot of cool stuff I went to Australia I studied at James
Cook it was just so amazing I was so fortunate to be there and on a side note
when you do study abroad my advice to you is to definitely do not get too
locked down in school because it's your time to go nuts to live the dream man
you know you can't be worried about your grades when you're on the other side of
the world because you don't know when you'll be back you shouldn't let your
grades go to crap funny thing is I still got really good grades even though I
actually didn't really do that much homework but now in order to get some of
these gigs this is something that's really
tip that doesn't really apply to everyone obviously doesn't apply to you
if you're out of college but my tip is to get good grades work really hard in
college college they say the greatest time in your life you know have fun but
the thing is more opportunities like this like fellowships and internships
will be available to you if you get really good grades in college okay I
worked hard I got pretty good grades in college and I had some opportunities
open to me because of that hard work pays off okay and again all this depends
on like what career you're trying to go into I know there's some careers that
they just really expect you to come straight out of college and you know
maybe you have student loans okay obviously student loans are a tough
thing your student loans are there and you're gonna have to pay them off at
some point unfortunately that's a problem for a lot of people and I
suggest that you still travel because you don't know when you're gonna be able
to travel next man after you're young I'm gonna make another video about why
you should travel when you're young but the last thing I will say is that even
if you just do want to go backpacking and just be a complete tourist for six
months or a year or a long time and you know you do want to leave a giant hole
in your resume again you gotta set your priorities and who really cares you only
live one life and there's actually this one guy who has a pretty interesting
story I'll stick it in the link below he basically had the idea yeah I don't care
if I leave all these holes in my resume and he ended up making a pretty darn
cool career out of his travel life I'm not saying that if you do that you'll be
him but my point is is you just gotta live life man you got to live it to its
fullest so that's all I have to say for today and my goal is to inspire you guys
to travel and also explore nature raise environmental awareness while having fun
doing it if you like this video feel free to subscribe and peace out homey
I'll catch you later
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