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 Mell Mell Post Count: 15242 Msg: #1 61 weeks ago, October 29th 2008 |  I've never heard of anyone regretting selling up and hitting the road :-) Quote from Jo TroubleTrue or false? [Edited: 15:58 - Mell - spelling] Mell Mell Post Count: 15242 Msg: #2 61 weeks ago, October 29th 2008 | My simple answer is "gee I don't know". For the first time in my life, I have never felt more secure about not being secure in the future and I love it. Quote from LTD Passport[Edited: 14:14 - Mell ] Mell Mell Post Count: 15242 Msg: #3 61 weeks ago, October 29th 2008 | I myself have no regrets either. I think travelling has changed me for the better in more ways than one. Being exposed to more cultures and more ways of life has made me more open minded,easy going and better able to deal with adversity. It has also made it necessary for me to become very good with managing money and made me able to enjoy living with less when I need to. | Mel [Edited: 14:18 - Mell ]  A License To Wander Jane Doe Post Count: 47 Msg: #4 61 weeks ago, November 1st 2008 | Only that I miss out on life at home. | While I am gone traveling, I seem to step into a place where time stands still. But when I return, I return to married ex-boyfriends, scattered friends, breakups, new stores on the corner, old ones gone, and Holiday memories missed.  ConMel Irish Traveller Post Count: 96 Msg: #5 61 weeks ago, November 1st 2008 | My only regret is not going travelling earlier when I was 18, instead I went when I was 19 for the first time, a year wasted | [Edited: 20:17 - ConMel ]  Going Global Marc Post Count: 85 Msg: #6 60 weeks ago, November 3rd 2008 | Not at all. | I agree with Melanie that things are missed at home. But to me that's not really a regret...but rather just a reality that I can't be everywhere at once. It's interesting to me that leaving a good job, leaving everyone/everything I know, being unemployed for a year, and generally living like a bum can end up being one of the best decisions I've ever made. Hmm...perhaps the only regret I can think of is that I didn't invest in better camera lenses before going. cheapskate john wilson Post Count: 38 Msg: #7 60 weeks ago, November 3rd 2008 | none, well except maybe places that i didnt get to see, or regrets about not traveling long enough |  Kuno A Kid Following His Dreams Post Count: 16 Msg: #8 60 weeks ago, November 3rd 2008 | Not one. Every experience has been more than worth it, and every day not traveling well spent with friends or family at home, or saving money to travel again. | regrets about not traveling long enoughWhen you're having a good time, you'll always wish for more time. Life may or may not be beautiful, Kuno  His Dudeness Ralf Kreuze Post Count: 141 Msg: #9 60 weeks ago, November 4th 2008 | Regrets, I've had a few... But then again to few to mention... | Oh no, wait that was Frank Sinatra... Hmmm... Nope, no regrets...  Elspeth Elizabeth Bell Post Count: 27 Msg: #10 59 weeks ago, November 16th 2008 | The traveling? No way. Blowing large quantities of student loan dosh? None. Missing what was going on (or not going on) at home? Nope. The traveling was fabulous and worth any and every sacrifice. | But....I must say, I have several gaps in my resume that are hard to explain (it never ceases to amaze me how many people think travel is a ridiculous extravagance). I didn't travel much until after my bachelors degree, which I got late having switched majors and schools very late in the game. I did 99% of my solo (ie not with my family on a vacation) travel between 2000 and 2006. Years I also got a double-major masters degree. But, at the end of it all, I must say, though I was a vastly happier and better person, I was up to my eyeballs in student debt, had almost nil professional work experience, and the thought of living and working in the same place with two weeks off a year made me feel panicky and suffocated. The professional student/traveling thing has made it rather difficult to find a job. Other people seem to find it absolutely no problem, and work and travel endlessly and effortlessly. Or travel and come home and get a great job. Not me. I have never managed to pull that off and have never gotten an answer out the people who did. They just acted like I was a moron and was obviously tragically uncool (which may be partly true LOL) and if I wasn't so tragically uncool it wouldn't be a problem. I am from Texas, and people here are neither impressed nor amused by my super cool adventures (not anyone in a position to offer me a job anyway). :/ I'm one of those people if they interview me, 9 times out of 10 they think I'm great and give me the job. But just resume alone??? I look like a bit of a drifter. They look for that steady job bit and it just ain't there. Into the trash it goes. Does this happen to other people? Mell Mell Post Count: 15242 Msg: #11 59 weeks ago, November 16th 2008 | Here is a thread which may interest you, Elspeth. | Taking a break [Edited: 16:06 - Mell ] Mell Mell Post Count: 15242 Msg: #12 57 weeks ago, November 25th 2008 | I deleted one post. Please post no SPAM on this forum. Mel | Number of Users: 8 | Number of Posts: 12 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
