Why are you traveling?
Why are you traveling?
Hello gappers!
Wanna help me out on my final year masters research project?
I’m exploring the value of traveling for young people (school levers, graduates).
I am looking for your opinions on the value of traveling on the individual, future job prospects and on the destination.
Why do you believe so many young adults decide to travel? What motivated you to travel and how did you decided on your method of travel and destination?
Thanks for comments and insights in advance.
I just wanted to live life to the full, to experience a world outside the one I knew, to challenge myself in ways that I didn’t know how, and to learn about other people’s cultures and societies!
And I still want all of those things!
To be honest, the first time I went travelling was just because I’d seen pictures of all these amazing places and decided I wanted to go see them for myself! Nothing more than that. Obviously, once I was out there I realised what an amazing thing travelling was and caught the bug.
Now, I travel as a chance to explore the world, learn about other cultures, share details of mine and generally open myself up to a whole world of possibilities.
me and my boyfriend are going travelling because basically we want to get out and see the world.
my parents have been supportive and keep saying “you need to do this now when your young (26&29;), you dont want to wake up at 50 in a dead end job wishing you had just done it”
we dont have amazing jobs, and i want to find out what i want to do in life, experience different cultures and just live life to the max!
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I decided to travel to australia in 2009. I’m a beauty/spa therapist so a good job to travel with. I wanted to get away from my small town, challenge myself to a new experience (I went by myself) and to increase my confidence. My friends all went to uni and got a taste of independence but that wasn’t my path so I chose to travel instead. I managed to get a job in a top spa in bondi junction and got some good experience under my belt. Coming back to England in 2010 was depressing, it took me 6 months to find a job and I ended up in an office but they told me one of the main reasons my CV stood out and I got the job was because I had been travelling. My boyfriend and I are now planning a round the world trip (we leave this september) and his parents are worried about us leaving our boring average jobs now and not being able to find anything when we get back (if we come back - they don’t know that bit yet!) but they don’t seem to understand that travelling can open so many doors to all sorts of possibilities and will always be a positive thing on your CV that potential employers will like. My parents are much more supportive and know that this will be a positive life changing experience and can only mean good things for the future. :)
Personally for me it was a desire to see and experience something new and to break out of the comfort zone that familiarity and routine provide. To expand my horizons, both culturally and personally (specifically in terms of my own self confidence).
And then of course there is the obvious one: Freedom.
The kind of freedom that only travel can provide. The feeling of waking up in a morning with no idea where the next road may take you or who you may meet. With nothing other than a bag on your back and a dog-eared copy of that countries travel guide to hand.
To be honest I had no idea what to expect when I left for the first time. I was nervous beyond belief, but once you’ve done it and seen the world and it’s nuances (or at least, a tiny proportion of them) first hand it’s something that I don’t believe you ever lose. When people talk about a ‘travel bug’ it is exactly that. It’s amazing how a list of places you would like to see expands the more that you travel.
As for work, well, I can say from my own perspective that having travel listed on my CV was seen as a positive by my current employers. I was myself unsure of leaving my job the first time I decided to travel but knowing what I know now, I wouldn’t think twice again.
Im going travelling because i want to see the world and learn about different cultures.
Same reasons as the others really, to see the world, to meet new people, freedom, checking out whether theres other places to end up going permanently.
Countries that have that yellow/orange ball in the sky would be nice aswell unlike this miserable, depressing, rainy hole.
So that I could have a year where everyday will be an adventure! :)
Countries that have that yellow/orange ball in the sky would be nice aswell unlike this miserable, depressing, rainy hole.
So true im convinced i suffer SAD
I`m just wondering what subject are you studying at university?
Countries that have that yellow/orange ball in the sky would be nice aswell unlike this miserable, depressing, rainy hole.
So true im convinced i suffer SAD
me too.
just back from australia..god i’m finding it HARD in a dull november UK..
