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Where did you go and what did you think of it? I've been thinking of taking a working holiday in either the UK or Japan.
I'm interested1) The classic tour guide/holiday camp staff thing.
I'm more likely to pick the UK, but if I pick Japan I'll be very careful with where I live and work.2) For Japan it will most likely be teaching English. Do note Japan is kind of odd here where most other places will do a TEFL thing Japan does otherwise, and Japan rather than other parts of Asia can be quite hard on people (plenty of people sharing horror stories here if you want to go looking).
Interpreting might work. My Cantonese is pretty good and with a bit of practice my Mandarin will be up to scratch.3) You go somewhere with a trade, do said trade and then take some time for you afterwards. Said trade tends to be sales/finance type thing where you go arrange/demo your product and then have a few days kicking around in some far flung part of the world, construction/mining/ or similar trades or more academic (think visiting professor), medic sometimes gets combined with 1) (if you are a doctor willing to do for a ski resort you can do quite well).
As far as construction goes 3) can be done short term but many such things are charity based, and your qualifications might not transfer that well depending upon what you are doing. I can go further there if you want but I will skip it for now.
I've met plenty of people in Melbourne doing working holidays. I know all about this.I have seen some people attempt to do working holiday visas in Australia, however most I have ever seen try tend to realise how little there is (most such people only get very low tier jobs, this possibly despite serious qualifications) and how expensive some Australian cities are. Enough to keep on being there but in the end "it's a long way to go just to speak English" is a phrase I heard more than once. On the other hand if you don't want to be in Sydney (or south east Australia in general) and can do a bit further afield then there are better options.
Probably not for me but worth keeping in mind. Is the holiday camp thing the same thing you mentioned in your first approach?UK wise there is fruit picking, though some of those companies are terribly uncool so be careful there. Similarly that is more of a summer/autumn thing and I have no idea how this UK-EU thing is going to play out here in the coming months. Holiday camps in the UK are strange places (they made sense in the 50s and before but then we invented cheap air travel to Spain and the south of France and such places have just about been breaking even/coasting since then), and there are few snow resorts, national parks or mountains that do anything like we see in the US or parts of Europe, however if you do have some decent mountaineering skills you can take people up and down mountains and across moors, or camping in the woods.
Good enough for me.You can probably find a job in a shop/supermarket/restaurant in the UK but they don't pay that well
A hostel is fine provided it's reasonably quiet and clean.renting a flat for yourself is very expensive, as is getting around the UK in general.
I meant interpreting between Chinese and English in the UK. In Melbourne and Sydney your chances of getting a job jump up if you can speak Mandarin.Back on China. I don't know what interpreting is doing these days (China is going through a few changes) and was always somewhat tricky/curious in how it plays out.
I think I'll start in Belfast, go to Glasgow then finish in somewhere in England. If I go to the UK I'll definitely take a trip to Ireland and the cost of living in Belfast is relatively low. This is if I take this working holiday at all.I've been to Crete and looking in the local supermarkets I found the branded foods expensive compared to the Uk.
the link below, at the end, it shows some of the cities where it's cheapest to live.
https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/country_result.jsp?country=United+Kingdom
I meant interpreting between Chinese and English in the UK. In Melbourne and Sydney your chances of getting a job jump up if you can speak Mandarin.
US in winter I'm told the same thing, t-shirts/short sleeves make life more comfortable.I find them pretty mild and wear tshirts all year round but I am told I am a freak like that.
Most phone repair shops are independent operations, give or take a few bad chains based in supermarkets.What about a phone repair store? I'm fairly confident with my hands and there are plenty of tutorial videos on YouTube.
Yeah, it wasn't sarcasm, I genuinely had no clue. Thanks for the enlightenment.Assuming that wasn't sarcasm, or a jab at the abysmal takes on holiday that most USians seem to enjoy, then it is a phrase referring to a self funding, or self extending holiday.
You get the right visa (or have the right passport) and you go somewhere with an aim to getting a job (more often menial, even if they have serious skills otherwise, but not always) to allow you to spend longer in the country than your savings would otherwise allow, hopefully seeing more of it (or over a longer period -- winter being rather different to summer and all that). It is very common for younger UK people to go to Australia with an aim to doing that, and quite a few Australians also do the reverse. US wise you tend to see it more for people running summer camps for kids but other things can be done.