Work Your Way Around the World (13th Edition) (Paperback)

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Editorial Reviews

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"Packed with useful information that will steer you through the whole process... a mine of information that you won't want to be without". --Global Adventure Magazine "Good, sensible advice on seeking work". --The Times "The essential starting point for planning a working holiday". --The Observer
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"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

"Packed with useful information that will steer you through the whole process¿ a mine of information that you won't want to be without".
--Global Adventure Magazine

"Good, sensible advice on seeking work".
--The Times

"The essential starting point for planning a working holiday".
--The Observer

--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 608 pages
• Publisher: Crimson Publishing; 13th edition (September 25, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1854583670
• ISBN-13: 978-1854583673
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.9 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #347,971 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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58 of 60 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Better than excellent, April 28, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Work Your Way Around the World (8th ed) (Paperback)

This book changed my life.

It showed me one doesn't have to follow the route of college, then graduation, then job for life. I bought this book, then worked for three years in London, Spain, and Cairo in the late 1980s and early 1990s. I supported myself and even managed to save money.

While personally enriching, my experiences have impressed -- bar none -- every employer with whom I have interviewed over the past seven years.

Had I not taken time off, I'd be like many other adults who regret not taking advantage of their youth and lack of committments to explore the world and themselves.

If you have any desire to explore, do yourself a favor -- buy the book, then buy your plane ticket.

46 of 48 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best all-around guide and fun to read, January 1, 2003

By	Tim Leffel "author, The World's Cheapest Dest... (Nashville, TN United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Work Your Way Around the World, 10th ed (Paperback)

While this book is written from a British perspective, it is an excellent guide for anyone who wants to travel around the world on limited funds. The author relies on "been there done that" travelers to supply information and anecdotes from the road and I can vouch from experience that those nuggets show up in revised editions.

I bought this book before my first trip around the world and it led to my first English teaching job--in Istanbul, Turkey. (Griffith's Teaching English Abroad title is a good guide for the teaching path specifically). This is also a good book to read when deciding what you're NOT willing to do. Comparing some of these jobs to working another few months at home instead to save more money puts things in perspective.

Understand that this is a guide to short-term work opportunities, so it does focus on ways to make enough to get to the next destination. It's not an international career guide, but rather an inside scoop on where to get paid while you travel. It's an entertaining read and a good investment for shoestring travelers.

Tim Leffel
author, The World's Cheapest Destinations

36 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Buy this book!!!, October 14, 1999

By	Aliza (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Work Your Way Around the World (8th ed) (Paperback)

If you're interested in working while you travel this is thebook to read before you go! Although the book is written from theEuropean traveler's perspective, the latest edition does also give advice on how Americans can find jobs in the discussed regions. Particularly helpful are the author's specific recommendations of places to look (i.e. likely streets, areas, and companies). The one thing I appreciates about this book, is that it's realistic. She doesn't tell you that you're job search is going to be easy when it in all liklihood will not. When you're seriously planning to go abroad you don't want rhetoric, you want reality and that is what the author provides.