The excerpt presents a highly self-analytical question to the internationally mobile population of dreamers and do-gooders: Are you running from or toward something? Only the delusional would argue that there is nothing personal about their flight. Just looking to make the world a better place by gi[...]
Archive for the ‘Careers’ Category
September 1st, 2010 - 7:24 am § in Careers, Good Ideas, Looking for Opportunity, Nonprofit Spotlight, Tips & Resources
You Have to Walk Before You Can Run Away
A Job Search from Abroad…
…is never much fun. I reassure myself that it wouldn’t be THAT much better if I were actually in the States, given the economy and opportunities for recent grads. But being on another continent seems to be a significant disadvantage—even if you are applying to organizations that work in the gl[...]
A Certifiably Vague Industry
I am a certified Teaching English as a Foreign Language instructor, and I don’t know what that means. A majority of teach-abroad placement organizations and schools now require a TEFL certificate, or a related one. This is a change from about 10 years ago, when you only needed to be a native E[...]
Goldfish and Golden Sunsets: Life in Montevideo
“And you’ve never been to Uruguay before?” people would ask, when they learned why I was fleeing Boston mid-winter. No, I’d tell them. Although when feeling more expansive I’d amend: well, for one day back in 2003. I hopped over from Buenos Aires to Colonia by myself, ate a ch[...]
Why We Do What We Do
“Why are you here?” she asked. My Spanish teacher, who is equally perplexed on how I “forget” to pronounce all vowels in each word, asked our group of beginning Spanish speakers why we traveled from Sweden, USA and Ireland to volunteer in Cordoba, Argentina. Maybe, she questi[...]
December 9th, 2009 - 12:23 pm § in Careers, Tips & Resources
From Volunteering to Paid Work: Development Careers in Latin America
Today’s post is from journalist and researcher Andrew Wainer. Andrew felt a magnetism toward all things international from his early teenage years. There’s really no explanation for it. He was lucky enough to be able to visit the Soviet Union with his father while only a teen and studied Spa[...]
