There are many ways to work overseas. A corporate job can pay the big bucks and give you all the benefits working with a huge company. But it also may put you in a cubicle, and give you zero time to visit the places you travel to. Bar work and farm work are also available, but you need to have experience to mix a good drink, or work on the outskirts of the city, and in dirt at a farm. A job that many travelers are doing to to save money and travel is working abroad in a hostel.
You can find jobs all over the world in hostels, in just about every country you can think of. Some hostels offer permanent jobs with fixed salaries, others offer part time and short term positions whilst some offer voluntary positions where you work in exchange for free accommodation.
Hostel work overseas is though not for everyone. Okay, it’s certainly not for everyone. Chances are you’ll be cleaning toilets, changing bed sheets, and standing around behind the front desk. You’ll probably have to scrub a floor or two and you’ll be doing it for almost no money, but don’t fret Cinderella, it’s all worth while in the end. Because while you’re working, you’ll also be meeting groups of beautiful young women from Scandinavia and charismatic young men from Italy. You’ll be boozing and hobnobbing with the hip young travelers of the world, and living the adventure together.
Working in a hostel doesn’t really pay the bills. You’ll only make enough money to fund the further destruction of your liver, but the people you’ll be working with will make it all worthwhile. In most cases, working overseas won’t make you rich and famous – but it does buy you time to experience life in another country.