I've been looking for a job since returning two months ago but, alas, nada. I got more offers where I traveled to. I mean, if I have to get a job anyhow, why not work elsewhere on earth? I don't want to lose my apartment, though.

WHat can or should I do?

anyhow, since I'm not traveling per se, I've moved my journal to here:

Posted 06 March 2005 01:53
I just re-wrote my resume and it looks pretty good. But this is only 1/10th, if even that, of what needs to be done. It was so tiring, doing that, and I should be happy that I got it out of the way, cause it means I should get hired more easily.

But then it occured to me that this isn't what I really want. Yes, I need to make a living and work. But also I kept thinking about how I want to go to all these different places and I just can't deal with the idea of working at another job for years only to save some money, travel for a little while, then come back and start all over. So rather than wait what seems like an eternity and not, to me, a very practical option, I'm thinking it's best to work my way around the world. I know there are many others in the same place as me.

Another problem is, I know many people on this board are OK with leaving home for long periods of time without suffering, but I get very homesick and I'm very used to all those creature comforts. Even a day or so into a new place I start to freak out. I don't want to give up my apartment and cats. And living out of a backpack does get stressful for me, not to mention not having my own apartment and all that goes with it. But....I realize that I have to make sacrifices if I want to have that "experience."

This all probably sounds disconnected, but it's what's going through my head now. I guess I'm looking for feedback of some kind!

So one part of me says I may as well just look for a job in London and move there, since that's one of the places I want to go back to. Another option is, the opposite way, to LA. Or Berlin. Or Cairo. Or SE Asia to be an English teacher. I don't know when, if ever, I'll be able to save enough.
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