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Anyone been backpacking solo?
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Job motivation: how the powerful steal from the stupid. -
Originally posted by SarahL2012 View PostYes - Australia and NZ in my late 20s. I got a working visa for Australia so ended up spending the full year out there (3 months work in Sydney & the rest travelling) and then went over to NZ for 3 months. Only came home because there was a family wedding & I was told I would be disinherited if I didn't attend.
Went on my own, but stayed in hostels & met loads of people. Best year of my life!!How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't thinkComment
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Originally posted by SarahL2012 View PostOnly came home because there was a family wedding & I was told I would be disinherited if I didn't attend.Comment
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Life is One long working holiday
Left home in 71 and finally went home in 79. Backpacking and working. I am still on a working holiday except I now stay at the Radisson and not in a hostel and I catch a plane or a train and don't need to hitch hike to work. I now work on the 18th floor and not at the 18th level of an Australian gold mine. I no longer have to borrow £50 from a fellow backpacker to show the border guard that I have enough money to transit the country, as I can now flash my credit card. I now have a suitcase with wheels with 5 days of clothes and not a backpack with my whole wardrobe. I can now go home after the working holiday week. I now do the same IT job which is not quite as exciting as the 70s odd jobsComment
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