Product Description

This eleventh edition of the unique and acclaimed guide for the working traveler explains how to find temporary work around the world, not only in advance, but also when on the spot while traveling. It incorporates hundreds of first-hand accounts from people who have actually done the jobs with the finest hard factual information to offer authoritative advice on how to find work.
"Work Your Way Around the World" gives information on all the main areas of temporary work including the tourist industry, agriculture, teaching English, childcare, and voluntary work, plus insiders' information on how to work a passage or to earn money by using your initiative when you spot a local opportunity.
This book provides dates and details of harvests from Denmark to New Zealand, childcare jobs and voluntary projects worldwide, and explains how to become a barmaid, pineapple picker, film extra, jackaroo, ranch hand, prawn fisherman, camp councelor, etc.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1141081 in Books
• Published on: 2003-03-13
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 576 pages

Review
"The budget globetrotters bible."
--"The Independent"
"Packed with ideas and all-important contacts."
--"The Sunday Times"
"Good, practical advice on a wide range of issues."
--"Lonely Planet's Western Europe"
"Want to travel but unable to finance a long trip? For almost 20 years Work Your Way Around the World has been helping travellers to overcome this problem...[the book] aims to enable those with little money but plenty of motivation to have a great time abroad while working their keep. It blends anecdotes with information to build up a picture of the possibilities for the working traveller across the globe."" "
"--The Guardian"

Ingram
Authoritative advice on how to find work around the world, with detailed listings of temporary opportunities and hundreds of first-hand accounts.

About the Author
The foremost authority on the subject of finding temporary work abroad, Susan Griffith has written a number of leading titles for the gap year traveller including Your Gap Year, Teaching English Abroad and Gap Years for Grown Ups. An enthusiastic traveller, Susan Griffith was born in Canada but now lives in England and has been writing on the subject for over twenty years.