Travel Working
Travel Working Options
If you are having no luck finding hostel work on your backpacking trip, there are many other travel jobs abroad and options for travel working. It is possible to supplement your funds and stay on the road forever if need be.
Some popular and lesser-known options for travel working are:
Organic Farm Work
Usually WWOOF (organic farm work) must be arranged in advance through sites like www.wwoof.org and provide an opportunity for you to work 4 or more hours a day in exchange for room and board.
Fruit Picking
Fruit Picking is a popular travel working option in Canada and Australia. You sleep in camps and work long hard days in exchange for being paid by weight. Veterans can earn great travel money abroad!
Beetle Probing
Another populat travel working option in Canada, beetle probers spend long days in the woods marking trees to be brought down in an effort to stop invasive beetles.
Teaching English
Teaching English abroad is the number one travel working option and most useful in any country. TEFL/ESL (Teaching English as a foreign language) can be done formally by earning a TEFL certificate, attending a school while you are abroad, or by simply approaching a school in a developing country and offering your services. Tutors in places like Japan and Korea can earn more than US $50K a year! English does not have to be your native language
Tree planting
Tree planing is one of the tougher travel working options, you have to be fast and very physically fit – but the payoff is good in friends, a sense of accomplishment, and cash!
Craigslist Work
Odd jobs, gigs, and everything you can think of for travel working abroad can be found on craigslist.org. Sometimes it may be as simple as a guy needing help unloading a truck or an event that could provide travel work for weeks.
Travel Writing
The holy grail of travel working jobs. If you have the skills, there are opportunities to earn at least a little cash writing reviews of places or providing articles to syndicate networks
Regional Jobs
A strong back and a desire to work are needed no matter where you go in the world. Fishing jobs are available in Alaska, boats need deck hands, there is probably travel work available all around you if you just look!
Volunteering
Most volunteer abroad opportunities do not pay, but will provide you a place to sleep and food in exchange for your time. This will help you build life experience and let you get to know an area, opening up doors for later.
Translation
If you speak more than one language you will always find travel work. Websites need translated, marketing materials, menus, and signs. Even if you don’t speak the local language you can offer to correct grammar and spelling problems in their English.
Travel working won’t make you rich, but if you look for opportunities to protect your travel funds, you can stay on the road indefinitely!
