The Career Break Book
Author: Joe Bindloss
Stock information
- : 32.95 AUD
- : 9781740598668
- : Lonely Planet Publications Ltd
- : Lonely Planet Publications
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- : 01 December 2004
- : 193mm X 143mm X 14mm
- : Australia
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- : Joe Bindloss
- : Paperback
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Description
Stop daydreaming at your desk, ditch the nine to five, say ciao to the rat race - take life by the scruff of the neck and give it a shake!
Whether you want to pen a novel, gawp at migrating wildebeest, row the Atlantic or relax on a Goan beach, The Career Break Book is the guide for you.
Questions you'll ask - answered
- What should I do with my house, mortgage, finances, pension, pets, car etc.?
- How can I ask my employer for time off?
- What happens if I take my children out of school?
- How will future employers view my career break?
- What if I decide not to come back??
Exciting ideas - and how to realise them
- Watch polar bears from a tundra buggy
- Learn Thai massage at a monastery
- Take a felucca up the Nile
- Build a house or rent an island
- Join the UN Volunteer Programme
- Monitor animal populations for the US National Park Service
- Write a best-seller
- Sail around the Caribbean
- Visit an ashram in Kerala
- Take the Trans-Mongolian Express from Moscow to Beijing
- All this and much more!
Reviews
...Lonely Planet, the intrepid traveler's bible...' --Los Angeles Times, April 2005