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

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[...]

August 31st, 2010 - 7:23 am § in Around Town, Careers, Day in the Life, Guatemala, In the Field

Partners in Poverty

Conversely, Guatemalans will ask how much your left shoe cost you without a second of hesitation. Living in such a money-obsessed, impoverished community has been difficult and bitter, and at the increased exposure to the question "How much?", I find myself fretting for my personal financial future.[...]

June 4th, 2010 - 6:36 am § in Careers, Good Ideas, Looking for Opportunity, Tips & Resources

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[...]

May 31st, 2010 - 8:22 pm § in Careers, Costa Rica, Tips & Resources

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[...]

May 14th, 2010 - 9:03 am § in Careers, Costa Rica, Day in the Life, In the Field, Tips & Resources

The Horrible Things I Do to My Students

I gave a bottle of wine and two cans of beer to a twelve-year-old girl Monday night. This is not a bad Tom Waits song. This was teaching past simple in my class. Here’s how it went: We practiced asking questions about the past: “Where did you go?” “What did you do?” And so on. I brough[...]

May 13th, 2010 - 12:22 pm § in Around Town, Careers, In the Field, Uruguay

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[...]

March 15th, 2010 - 5:57 pm § in Argentina, Careers, Country, Day in the Life, Good Ideas

Hunting for Jobs in Buenos Aires

It’s been over a month now, and my shift from Peru to Buenos Aires is starting to feel complete. In the short amount of time since arriving in the Porteño capital, I’ve undergone some major lifestyle changes, the biggest being my jump from the world of rural community volunteering t[...]

February 12th, 2010 - 12:58 pm § in Argentina, Careers

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 18th, 2009 - 12:58 pm § in Argentina, Around Town, Careers

Day in the Life: G to the R to the E in Bs to the As

If you’ve been following along then you’re familiar with the fact that I’ve been working hard here in Buenos Aires, not only at my job but studying for the Graduate Record Examination, or GRE. This is the entrance exam similar to the SAT, but for grad school. Months of painful stud[...]

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[...]





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