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Originally Posted by gargamel
Does anyone have any suggestions of jobs that I could get and/or places that I could live outside of North America without having any particular skills and not being able to speak any languages other than English and very poor Spanish?
As a little background, I'm 31 years old and have an undergraduate degree in chemical engineering and a law degree, and I've been working as a corporate/intellectual property lawyer for the past few years, but I just quit my job and need to do something that I enjoy.
I've never lived outside of North America and would like to experience that for a while before possibly coming back and finding a job in another field (I'll worry about that later), but I have no idea about what opportunities, if any, are out there. If there's nothing that I can do for work, I'll probably just use my savings to be the too-old backpacker in hostels for a few months, but I'd ideally stretch it out a little longer by finding a job and spending some quality time somewhere. I'm open to pretty much anywhere. Any ideas?
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I was about your age in the late 80's when I went to Cancun and then to Isla Mujeres, an island off the coast.
While out walking I came across a pretty 26 year-old lass from California with six buckets of ice cream and one employee . . . . and she was enjoying a laid back lifestyle, living in the moment.
It was just a brief conversation and a chocolate cone but I never forgot her, particularly as I was stepping on the plane to leave Cancun, returning to the Rat Race which was pretty tough at the time.
I have no idea what happened to her - maybe she's an ice cream conglomerate or something - but I salute your choice and she's an ample demonstration that it doesn't take much in some places.
Enjoy the time off.
Cowperson