I’ve been meaning to post this for a while now, and rather than interfere with Lute Skywatcher’s thread, I thought I’d start one on my own.
My youngest son has just turned 26 years old, and has decided that he would like to work and travel at the same time. See the nation (or the world), make some decent money that he can save, and then after several years he’s thinking that perhaps he’d like to settle back down, buy a house, etc.
He was telling us that he wouldn’t mind some adventure, has no objection to hard work, and somewhat dangerous jobs don’t bother him much. He’s ready for a change, but has no idea how to go about it. I told him that I’d put it to the Dopers to see what ideas they might have and how to go about getting a foot in the door.
A little background: he graduated HS and has his AAS from ITT. Unfortunately, I do not recall his major.
Any ideas and how he can go about applying would be wonderful and deeply appreciated!
Sure, join the American military. Great benefits, lots of responsibility for young people. The wars are winding down. Does a lot of people a lot of good.
I don’t recall the airline right now, but there was a commercial for a hiring campaign for some airline on the radio this morning. Being (apparently) in Montreal, this airline is requiring applicants to be bilingual!
Cruise ship worker? Long days, not too much pay, but free room and board and you do get time off to visit the islands the ship stops at (at least the employees of Royal Caribbean do!) Of course, you see the same islands every two weeks for as long as you work there, but still…! Depending on his degree and work experience, he could end up doing something more interesting than wait/room staff - all kinds of people are needed to run a cruise ship!
I’m not even clear on how one goes about getting this job, but when my brother was about that age he got a job crewing on a private sailboat. It was owned by some rich guy and his family, and they sailed around to various destinations in the Caribbean. When the boat was in port, the job included personal assistant type stuff, like making restaurant reservations, getting tickets for events, that sort of thing. My brother didn’t have much boating experience at all before this job.
He liked it because it was easy to save money, and he got to see a lot of interesting places. He made decent money, but we’re not talking crazy money, like oil rig money or anything. He did say there were long stretches of boring parts when the boat was in a small port. Sometimes the Rich Guy would be called away on business, and the boat would simply sit in the small port for days or weeks until Rich Guy returned to resume his vacation.
Does he have/is he willing to get a valid teaching certificate? If he wants to teach, working at an International school such as AFCENT is a fantastic way to get to live in Europe, and travel from there as much as he can/wants to. I don’t know how many years of prior teaching experience he might need, since I’ve never looked into it myself, but I’m sure this would be a good place to start looking : http://www.afcent.org/
Might I suggest cool works. We met several people who found interesting jobs thru this site this summer. Young kids in their 20’s thru older folks 50’s and up. They had jobs from horse wranglers to cooks, camp hosts, waiters and rafters.