Product Description

While the benefits for students taking a gap year have long been accepted, there are now an increasing number of older people putting normal life on hold to go off and see something of the world. Aimed at just these people, Gap Years for Grown Ups includes all the essential information on the range of opportunities available to the qualified adult. Including specialist gap year schemes and jobs and voluntary opportunities across the world, this book is essential to planning your career break. Special features include how to persuade your boss to grant you leave as well as advice on how to finance your trip and deal with the eventual return to work and domesticity. The guide also features over 100 first hand accounts from adults who have taken successful gap years and can advise other grown ups of what to expect.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #52083 in Books
• Published on: 2008-10-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

Review
Informative and full of ideas and contacts. --The Times

Encyclopaedic.
--The Guardian

The Guardian, October 9 2004
Encyclopaedic.

From the Inside Flap
Whether you're 25 or 85 there's a world of opportunities out there:
● Crew a yacht across the Atlantic
● Protect loggerhead turtles in Greece
● Work with deprived children in India
● Travel overland across Africa
● Take a gourmet cookery course in the Loire Valley
● Build walkways in the Costa Rican rainforest
● Learn to be a dive master in the Red Sea
● Teach English in Japan or China
● Work with bushrangers in Botswana

Find out what these and many other grown up gap years are like inside...