Posts tagged with: "career break"

• Travel Photos

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Lazy days in the sun while slow travelling is the dreamiest way to spend a much-needed career break! Don’t miss out on our favourite pics from the community in October 2025’s travel photo competition!

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• Inspiration

• about 6 min
• 34 comments

Not sure about taking the risk of going on a gap year? Think gap years are only for college students, or teenagers with no goal in life? Here are 7 perfect reasons for you to start packing and embark on a year-long adventure abroad!

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• Inspiration
• Travel Stories

• about 4 min
• 12 comments

When I was younger, I often heard, “Travel when you’re young!” as advice from older folks. Even then, I knew I wanted to keep traveling no matter what age, but part of me wondered if it were true. “Will I ever be too old to travel?” I worried. Now that I’m well into my thirties, I can definitely say that traveling in your 30’s is not only possible, it has advantages! Not just because of my age, but because my experiences and all of the lessons learned have shaped how I navigate the world.

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• Workawayer of the Month
• Travel Stories

• about 6 min
• 2 comments

Every month, we review our lovely photo competition entrances and are at awe with all the fun and jaw-dropping adventures our Workawayers get up to! In the last few months, there's been a pair of wanderers whose vibrant snapshots and energy have caught our eye - meet Fabian and Eva, the French couple who took a sabbatical year to travel the world and discovered a passion for adventure and photography on the way!

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• Inspiration

• about 4 min
• 8 comments

When I tell people now that I quit my job as a nurse to travel solo around the world for fourteen months, it seems kind of dramatic. In fact, I believe it’s the decision that saved my life, the one I was meant to live! Learning to trust and believe in the strong desires of your heart won’t give you all the answers. However, it will give you the courage to live your life according to your own rules.

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• Inspiration

• about 2 min
• 75 comments

Mention Workaway and a lot of people would imagine a backpacker in their 20s, running around tropical destinations in flip flops and partying in hostels. Almost every day we get asked, “am I too old for Workaway? Are there other workawayers my age or will I be the odd one out?” Meet Kim, a 55-year old traveller who is on her first Workaway adventure in Costa Rica!

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• Workawayer of the Month

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• 5 comments

Viviane decided years ago that 2020 would be the year she’d quit her job as an exec at a Silicon Valley startup and adventure around the world. While with the pandemic things didn't go according to plan, she managed to adapt her dream and safely embarked on her simple but epic gap year as a workawayer!

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• Inspiration

• about 7 min
• 20 comments

Life is too precious to be wishing it away for retirement when we’ll have the “time” to travel. Now more than ever, we have the time to plan, time to find your perfect host and to research our dream destinations... so why not use this time to plan your grown up gap year?

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• Workawayer of the Month

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• 3 comments

Miguel and Mariana had been living together for 6-7 years when they suddenly decided to leave their beloved homeland behind to find a home away from home everywhere they went. Read about the epic story of how they make the transition from quitting their 9-5 jobs lives to become full-time Workawaying nomads!

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• Inspiration

• about 5 min
• 124 comments

At Workaway we are avid travellers, worldwide wanderers and open road addicts, but there is definitely a right time to start to travel the world!

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