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.
