Today's Professional Is Globally Mobile

Are your skills transferable?

Could you hop countries within a couple months if you wanted?

Does your current CV or resume suit an international career?

In 2005, December 22, just before Christmas, I was working in London's Canary Wharf, 4th floor from the top of the Bank of America building.

And I had just decided to buy a one way ticket to South East Asia. Thailand.

On 10th January 2006 I was up in the air, quite literally, on my plane to the Orient.

A special laptop protective backpack and a 1 year travel visa.

I just came across this travellers quote and it brought back the strong memory of me walking through the Gate at Gatwick Airport…

By a traveler named Peter Fleming who went to Xinjiang in 1935.

“He who starts on a ride of two or three thousand miles may experience, at the moment of departure, a variety of emotions. He may feel excited, sentimental, anxious, carefree, heroic, roistering, picaresque, introspective, or practically anything else; but above all he must and will feel a fool.”

And it's soooo true.

I was leaving behind my well paid corporate London city boy lifestyle and heading off into unknown untold experience.

I freelanced whilst traveling, as a web marketer and travel writer… Running my laptop off a PCMCIA Card using a pay-as-you-go Thailand SIM card.  Slow but ok.  For faster connection I could convince the local Internet cafe to hook my laptop up to one of their computers.

Now with that 14 month travel experience behind me, it's sad to see so many Londoners stuck in their job ruts as if mouse running a wheel in a cage.  It is they that now seem like the fool.

Knowledge is power.

And if you have the desire, you can most certainly find the opportunity to travel, or country hop into a new job.  My traveling experience and freelancing gave me the chance to improve my marketing and writing skills.

On my return I worked at an advertising agency and completely smashed their control pieces used for promoting financial products for their largest client.

Get out there. You'll have a much bigger picture than those around you when you return… if you return. Or you might settle in greener pastures.  There's plenty out there.

Check out my Lifestyle Alliance to join a private network of globally minded adventurers and professionals.

Originally posted 2009-09-06 18:04:13.

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