So You’ve Travelled the World. Now What?
For a lot of people who have quit their job and taken a trip around the world, traveling is the best thing that’s ever happened to them. They get the chance to meet new people, to experience things that they never thought they would ever experience, and get some perspective on how lucky they are.
They say that traveling changes you, though. This is something that everybody claims, usually when after arriving back with hair braided down to the waist and an elephant tattoo adorning their ankle. Whether you travel for a month, a year, or even longer, it can be difficult to readjust when you return back home.
Extended adventures mean even though you’ve had the time of your life, you’ve still missed out on getting a foot in the door of the real world. When you get back, it’s hard to find your place, and it’s a challenge to know what your next move should be.
Get On the Property Ladder
Most people return from their travels without a penny to their name, but if you were smart enough to save, save, save even during your trip around the world, you could come home with your finances feeling more comfortable than most.
If you’ve been traveling for a while, you may have realized that it’s time to settle down, and if the funds are there, then you can use a loan calculator to get onto the property ladder and start feeling like a real person.
Homeownership is the dream for a lot of people, and while it’s difficult for the current generation, it’s not impossible. If you don’t trust yourself not to book the next flight out of Dodge for one more victory lap, then what better way to stop yourself by making a significant investment in your future.
Get Your Career On Track
Most people who’ve traveled have put their career on hold just for a short while. It’s a great way to take a break from work, evaluate your life, and think about what you want to do once you get home.
It might give you the perspective you need to seek an alternate career, but it could also make you realize how much you enjoy your current job. However you feel following your return from your globetrotting expedition, you will hopefully understand the next step in your career.
Traveling is a superb way to give you clarity over what’s important, and it might be that you’ve seen or experienced things while abroad that have shifted your perspective over what you see yourself doing. You might even have been lucky enough to work while traveling, which has given you a taste for teaching, charity work, or journalism.
Whatever your feelings, you can dedicate time to exploring your options once you are back and hopefully get your career on track.
Transfer Your Experiences
No matter who you are when you first left for your travels, it’s almost sure that you have changed since then, and this is usually for the better. You’ve had new experiences that have taught you new skills, and they may be things you never thought you could do.
A lot of people don’t think about it, but these skills are useful in the real world, too. You’ve improved your people skills; you might have learned a language. You’ve obtained plenty of knowledge about what makes a successful travel journey, whether it involves great deals, staying safe, or the best places to see.
Use these skills to help others, and you’ll keep benefiting from your travels long after you’ve settled back home.
Start a Blog
So you get back from your travels and you meet up with friends and family and you realize after a while that the first words out of your mouth with every sentence are ‘When I was in…’ before regaling your audience with tales of adventure and comedy that often you just had to be there to get.
You don’t want to become this type of travel bore, but you also can’t bear to keep your experiences bottled up. You simply need to tell someone. You need to tell anyone about your trips, but with no one too keen on listening, where do you turn?
Start a blog, of course. Writing down your experiences allows you to work through the process of dealing with finishing your travels and also connects you to the broader travel blogger community. From here, you can share experiences with those who get it and not feel like you’re talking about yourself and only yourself every time you meet up with friends.
Travel Some More
If you’ve got any money left whatsoever, then your travels don’t need to finish once you land back in your home country. You can use your trip back to help ground you and remember what else is important in life. It gives you the chance to reconnect with friends and family you may not have seen for months, so you can get everything out of the way once you get home.
But once you’ve finished with that, you can start thinking of your next adventure. There are so many places to visit in the world that it’s almost impossible to do so over one trip abroad. The travel bug is an authentic thing, and most people are not satisfied with only seeing one corner of the globe.
You’ve likely also been inundated with advice from other travelers on other places to visit, and with such glowing reviews, it would be a shame not to experience them yourself.
Your Life Isn’t Over Just Because Your Travels Are
Traveling is a fantastic way to have new experiences and see the world, and when these travels finish, you’ll likely get stuck with the post-travel blues for longer than you’d like. It’s easy to feel lost and unsure of what you need to do next, and you might even worry that traveling was a mistake. It never is, though, and as long as you understand your options once you get back from your adventures, you can leap into real life without a second of downtime.
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