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New Opportunities

You have completed your first Round-The-World journey, and you are now in a position to decide what you want to do after returning home from a successful trip.

In all likelihood, you will have learned a great deal, perhaps more than you could have learned getting an advanced university degree, and you will be at pains to describe the applicability of such learning to some settings, for example, when interviewing for a job.

By taking some time to think and jot down what your journey has meant from a practical standpoint, you will identify new opportunities for yourself and you will find concrete ways to apply that meaning to even the most routine circumstances of your life back home. Among other things, your RTW trip have proven self-sufficiency, the ability to deal with different cultures and people, and the ability to see projects through to completion. It may have also have meant that you mastered a foreign language or became more of an expert in a particular field of endeavor, especially if you chose thematic travel as a basis for planning your trip.

As for my personal experience, when I returned to New York I was hired as a consultant at an advertising agency specializing in clients in South Africa, one of my favorite places from my travels and a country where I spent nearly two months. I left that position to become the director of administration for an international not-for-profit company based in New York. I was responsible for the administration of all the local branches of that company outside the United States and Canada - and I was offered that position as a direct result of my RTW travel experience.

You too will have new opportunities on account of your travels. You will find that you feel qualified for different roles than you were before you left. Trust yourself, try applying for positions you are interested in but wouldn’t have applied to before, or even start your own business with the knowledge and experience you have gained.