Suggestions Required - How to convert your love "Travelling" to your "Career".

If one accidentally happens to clean A.Raja's a/c, his forthcoming 14 generations would never need to run for anything

Haha lots of ideas floating around....

Sagar lets visit Okhla sanctuary and surely will come up with some brilliant ideas ..

Sayan,

your idea is very good but there seems to be limited options of actually doing it...

instead have you thought about working your @ss off for next 10-15 years, save a lot of money and retire at 40.. then you can travel to your hearts desire.. i guess you are 25-30 years old, with good planning you can earn enough in next 10-15 years to retire to some place thats cheaper than cities or travel... after all 40 is the new 30..

hope you find what you are looking for

cheers

" FIND A JOB THAT YOU LOVE AND YOU WILL NEVER HAVE TO WORK AGAIN !!! "

Me and a few friends were pondering over the same subject for the last few months . We do plan to start a tour and travel kinda thing in the near future. We are not going all in though. For the initial couple of years , we would set it up alongside keeping our corporate bread !!!

If things work out , we would register and maybe take up Travelling as profession. Am really sick and tired of Office Work !!! I hate looking at the Four walls that encloses me and cuts me off from Mother Nature !!!

Should we succeed , i'll inform you guys . Maybe you all can step in

Hi,

I have gone through the entire thread thanks Sayan you brought this up.

Cheer up People !!!
This is one life and you guy can have a 2nd profession side by side your present work or business. Make your present job a strong medium to earn money from which keep aside a part and develop a traveller's career.

Think of ways to it . I am currently researching on this. Whatever i learn will be sharing on Indiamike.........

The bug of travelling and exploring the world around is the best thing that can happen to one. So, whoever is bitten feel how lucky you are....so once again Cheer up guys !

Ragards
Madhurima

To realize a travelers life then wherever we are, we must be travelers: I, for instance, have lived on small boats, and now, in a Basque sheepherder wagon. Saving money for travel has always been my Prime Objective. These "homes" of mine have been small, can't really buy anything 'cuz there's nowhere to put it Over the years (after training as a chef) I took jobs that allowed me to come and go, as I chose: as long as people eat, I'll stay employed After many years of cooking I became a personal chef, moving to/living in the homes of others around the country. The pay was amazing, allowing me in even shorter increments of time to put away the money I needed to travel. I never got married, no children, no pets . . . in 1979, while in photography school, I was offered a place on an expedition to Peru, to run, to make an attempted first descent of river that had never been tried. I was an alternate boatman and trip photographer. On the third day we lost a boat, almost lost three men, I lost all my camera gear, film included, I lost 30 pounds . . . but I came home from trip saying - "Whatever that was, I want to do it again;" and ever since, I have.

Hey Darmabum

Really inspiring..

Hi All,

One can open up a travel blog or a website where you can journalise your travel experiences and info...

I think if you spread and give info more and more readers will come and be regular readers to your blog which can generate you traffic...

Not only that, write about not so regular topics about a place.

You can set this up side by side your career. I am doing this..

bye

This was already mentioned but I think it should be said again.

I think Teaching English as a Second Language is one of the best ways to travel and work. The job is really rewarding and helps you learn more about a culture. You can live in a variety of countries, get to know their culture, customs, history, food and then between contracts (or during holidays) you can travel to nearby places.

I started off in Korea for about 2 years. With the money I earned there I travelled all around Korea and Japan, then I spent a few months in Europe. I'm just coming to the end of 2 1/2 years in China, where I've managed to travel to Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia and Laos, as well as a lot of place in China itself. Now I'm off to India and Nepal for a few months before heading to Thailand to start teaching again.

If you're not a native speaker there are still opportunities - I have many friends who aren't native speakers who have found work teaching. The job itself is really good, in my opinion. You get out of it what you put in. If teaching is not your thing, then maybe start off by teaching in a country then move onto other job opportunities as you learn the language and get integrated into the culture.

Vexed,

ya it is another good idea...

For me i work as a Mobile game designer , but my mind keeps floating in the unknown world which i continuously wish to explore.....

Hi All,

As promised to myself..this year i did see mountains and i am glad i did.....

As promised i also took the first step to change.. I started my own travelling blog... This will not only have extremely important informations that people can use but also beautiful snaps to help you actually feel the moments...

Here it is - http://explorelifearound.blogspot.in/

mchowdhury - Saw your signature . . . reminded me of a quote that my father had posted on his refrigerator: (this by Cervantes) "On the streets of by and by one arrives at the house of never."

Dear all,
One need to get lost before one can find something...well I was looking through this thread for some answers because like all of you I too feel the same. But lets say unless you are an NGC or Discovery Channel anchor merging your profession and passion will not help. On the contrary to start a travel agency will be a very competitive exercise to do involving more office hours than we are already putting in. However, if one is a research scholar or something like that lets say Geo technical engineer, chances are fair as already mentioned in the blog. I know a friend of mine who was given the task by IIT Roorkee to mark all the earth quake prone areas (a new survey was being done) in regions of Himachal Pradesh (lucky guy!), another one who switched between various professions to travel the world (that worked because he was a french). Or alternate method of blogging as suggested by Mchowdhury (in which case one need to have creative writing skills), in my point of view the opportunities are plenty only waiting to be tapped in.

Anyways, even myself being a travelling buff I did plan something, being an architect, to travel and work under different architects around different climate and geographical conditions of our country and study the basic building techniques but somehow it seems rolling stone gathers no moss. After drifting around for a few months ,and as my field turned out to be, I had to stick to one area of specialization. And that is how I landed in a 9-5 job (Alas!). Thereafter, taking a break once in a very-small-while.
Still that is my assessment and experiences with travelling and earning. Hope someday a more feasible option will be available.

Until then let us keep looking, who wants to gather moss anyway.

Riyan

Hello all. I have been reading these forums for many years, and this thread has finaly made me want to write ( i had forgotten my earlier username password so i re-registered).

I have experienced a couple of careers and realised that we only get paid to do things that no one really really wants to do. The are a few exceptions, of course. But thngs that most humans LOVE to do, generally dont pay too well : in the average, of course.

I have grown up in large cities and now desperately want to travel, but every day, the is one thing that prevents. Only one thng every day. And i dislike travellng n weekends because of the obnoxious and loud tourists who ruin the serenity of a quiet and introspective travel.

I have realised we can do a fair bit to be free from the maddening cities and do some stuff that can help us earn a living. In sme cases, where the mney is good, the barriers to entry are high. In other cases the barriers are low but so are the monies. Not enough to survive. In still other cases, the investments are high, but the incomes may be decent. Let me try and share:

A) Good Income, High Barrier To Entry: Merchant Navy and Aircraft Pilots, photographers on cruise liners etc. You get to travel, and the money is decent. I have friends who are in merchant navy. They sail for a few months and are on shore for a few months again. Sounds like a good idea. Another friend took a job on a luxury cruise liner as a photographer (of course, you have to prove your skills) and was earning close to 2.5 lakhs a month. Not bad. However for all of these options, the barriers to entry are intense education, experience and in case of photography, a good portfolio.

B) Decent Income, High Investments: if you have the money, knack and or the space, you can build a small home stay kind of hotel in a beautiful place. Market it well and travellers will come. The same guys who earn big money in 9-5 jobs will pay decent money to come here and fund your travel plans. You too get to live a a dream place. Most places in remote areas of India require far less mney for a good quAlity of life, than a big city. That makes me wonder, why do we live in a big city to begin with. Its a trap.

In this space, another thing can be done. One can become a travel company. If you get accustomed to a particular area of travel, lets say the himalayas, or adventure or trekking etc, you can start a travel company, where people will pay you to take them on hese fantastic activities. Depending on what kind of service you offer, you can charge anything. But building your own business takes time and money.

C) Low Income and low barrier to entry: travel writers, travel photographers, school teachers etc. the entry barriers are low, but so are the incomes. Its very difficult to earn a decent living off our blog, or by being a travel writer. Each article doesnt pay a lot plus if you ave our own blog, building traffic etc is a huge task. No traffic, no money. The internet advertising space requires huuuuge traffic to be able to make a small amount of money.

As a film maker, i get to travel a fair bit, but its never satisfactory. Films never have enough money to spend time at a location. We have to get to work the moment we land, from sunrise till sunset, and leave the moment the job is done. There are always things to done back in Mumbai that keeps you from staying back an extra day. Bu I cant complan much. I do get to travel to interestng places all the time.

Thats really a fine classification theloststory...