Gap Years for Grown Ups - Softcover

Griffith, Susan

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ISBN 10: 1854583514 ISBN 13: 9781854583512

Publisher: Vacation-Work, 2006

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The benefits of Gap Years for students have long been accepted, but increasing numbers of older people are now following their example by putting their normal lives on hold and going off to see something of the world. For these people this fully revised second edition of Gap Years for Grown Ups includes all the essential information on the enormous range of opportunities, including:

Specialist Gap Year schemes that accept older participants.Doing something worthwhile through voluntary work.Pursuing a hobby or a new project.Taking the trip of a lifetime to remote and romantic places.Gaining some new skill or qualification.Spiritual retreats and pilgrimages.The paid jobs around the world that can be found by travellers.
There are many reasons why someone may choose to leave their job and take a Gap Year. Younger people may want a breathing space, a chance to step back, evaluate their career and perhaps to head off in a new direction, while older people whose children have left home may realise that they now have the freedom to travel or to achieve some personal goal or ambition that has long laid dormant.

The book also covers the nuts and bolts of how to take time out:

How to finance a break from work or running a home.Persuading the boss to give you leave.Ensuring that you have a job to return to. Whether to go off alone or to take a partner.How to tackle the return to work or home domesticity.
The text is vividly illustrated with over 100 first hand stories and case histories from grown ups who have taken Gap Years to show the reader what they can expect from their career break.

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From the Back Cover:

The Most Comprehensive Guide
To Taking A Career Break

Taking the plungeNuts and bolts preparing to take offDoing something worthwhileDirectory of specialist programsWorking and living abroadTravel and adventureTaking the familyNew skills and new projectsSpiritual developmentBack to normal or a change for life?
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did”. Mark Twain

PLUS:
Over 100 first hand accounts from grown ups who have taken Gap Years

From the Inside Flap:

Whether you're 25 or 85 there's a world of opportunities out there:
Crew a yacht across the Atlantic
Protect loggerhead turtles in Greece
Work with deprived children in India
Travel overland across Africa
Take a gourmet cookery course in the Loire Valley
Build walkways in the Costa Rican rainforest
Learn to be a dive master in the Red Sea
Teach English in Japan or China
Work with bushrangers in Botswana

Find out what these and many other grown up gap years are like inside...

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