Ever considered crewing on a cargo boat? I did. Consider it, that is. Never did it. Ah, sweet regret.
Perhaps you could move into the carport at my new home and become the Balfour Houseboy. No pay to speak of, but the location's nice.
If it's the cultural produce of America that interests you, you're probably more into staying in New York or LA, then. The megalopoli. Which is just urban, maaan. You could become a roadie for a touring band. That'd be a good goal. You'd need to know how to coil cables, and weird jargon for bits of gear. And you'd need to know a band, too, I suppose.
By the way, do you have a driver's license?
Unrelated: Ever thought of becoming an air courier? You can do it freelance as a way to get dirt cheap flights ($400 from LA to Bangkok?!), but there are also folks who do it for a living, I think.
My sister got out of college and flew to Taiwan to teach English. If you want to get around the world a little, this is a great way to go.
She found a job after she got there, by the way. Not before. I'd do some looking around for that sort of thing -- the only qualification is that you speak English. Which you do.
One of my sister's English-teaching gigs was, essentially, singing and speaking for a few hours a day to three-year-olds. They were at that age when the brain starts grabbing words, and the Taiwanese wanted the kids exposed to English words to grab onto. I still do an impression of her impression of a very proper Australian teacher at the same school singing "Laugh, Kookaburra, laugh!" with perfect diction and a ramrod-straight back, as if reciting Tennyson.
Don't rely on friends to go with you. Rely on making friends once you land. You've got friends all over, anyway, from here. |
