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Hey guys,

I have used this forum periodically over the last five years and it has always been an excellent source of help. I hope you guys may be able to help once again!

I am a British citizen who has been living abroad since the age of 18, chiefly in Latin America and France. I finished in September a Master's degree with an Ivy League institution. The subject is irrelevant; suffice it to say it was airy fairy liberal arts degree and pointless. To answer the obvious question, I did it because the UK government offered me a good pension because of my family situation for as long as I continued in education. I was surprised to be accepted and wanted to see if I could compete with what I expected to be very strong students. And of course I was happy to have a year funded for me in a beautiful city (it was a research program in a European capital).

The course turned out however to be a bag of balls and I spent a long time on these forums asking for people's advice about whether I should quit to go off and work on a motor yacht - I had been offered a good deal. In the end, I stuck the program out and do now have the big name University to put on my CV, which in the world is sadly rather more important than it should be. However, loving to travel and not wanting to enter the corporate world, at the end of the course I took a job on another motor yacht anyway so that I could be paid to travel the world, after five years of funding it myself.

Well, working on a yacht is bloody tedious - mind-numbing in fact. I intend to quit in February when the boat is in the Dominican Republic and make my way to Cuba, from where, if nothing comes up, I will fly home. Here is where I could use your advice. I am young, fluent in three languages, and have an Ivy League Master's, and want to do something more interesting than wash down big white boats all day. I do not, however, wish to be a representative or sales manager for a big faceless corporation. Does anyone therefore have any ideas regarding satisfying work that allows one to live abroad and travel, beyond the years of backpacker jobs that I have done up until now, and earn a decent living?

I realise this is quite a large question but I am just hoping for the chance of a little inspiration from you folks. If anyone has any interesting stories to share, I would love to hear them.

thank you very much in advance and best wishes.

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It's always a good idea to mention that you have cross posted on other branches waton.

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What is satisfying pretty much depends on the individual. What's satisfying for you? What do you like to do and what are your interests? I have a collectibles business and find it very satisfying but I doubt many others would. It seems job satisfaction is very important to you so you need to think about it carefully. You should also tell us about your MA. Even if it's something like art history, these can lead to jobs too and they may be very rewarding. After all, whatever it may be, you found it interesting enough to study it.

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Liberal Arts pays off in unexpected ways, later. Art History, my 1st love, and my 2nd, Anthropoligy come in handy.

I now live in Seville. The this city is always changing by what they keep finding. Am I in heaven, errr wutt?

Your book is being written, by what you experience and learn, in that vagabond life you lead,

I pitty folks who spend all their life, living in one town or state.

Don't forget to start that book. Too few of us let it slip by.

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