Because you assume someone who travels is a 'gypsy hipster socialist idiot'. Rather be well travelled than someone like you who probably never left the UK. What a sad life you must have.
I need help with my CV regarding taking time off to travel?
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Unexplained gaps worry me, travel after graduation wouldn't. Worry is perhaps too strong a word, but I don't like reading a CV and having to scratch my head trying to interpret the lineage, I basically want a full easy to understand timeline from when they finished education until now.
Isn't this technically discrimination?
Whilst I appreciate terleys comments were satire. I would argue from personal experience that travelling extensively like that massively opens up your mind and acceptance/appreciation of other cultures, meaning they can contribute more than the average joe, depending on the business model and culture...usually anyway. 
I'm not sure it is a huge advantage for someone to have shagged a few hookers Thailand and gone on the lash for a few months while touring Australia - I guess perhaps they're preferable to someone who has never ventured further than Benidorm.
Anyway, this does spring to mind:
But on a serious note - if someone has volunteered for some project with a charity/non-profit org or taught English as a foreign language etc.. as a part of their gap year then that sort of thing is pretty cool and definitely a plus point on the CV.
Anyway, this does spring to mind:
But on a serious note - if someone has volunteered for some project with a charity/non-profit org or taught English as a foreign language etc.. as a part of their gap year then that sort of thing is pretty cool and definitely a plus point on the CV.
Hence my point of "usually"
I traveled a lot for 9 months straight. Didn't spend it partying or shacking up with hookers either. Immersing myself in local cultures was my thing. I'm a better person with a broader perception of others for it
I traveled a lot for 9 months straight. Didn't spend it partying or shacking up with hookers either. Immersing myself in local cultures was my thing. I'm a better person with a broader perception of others for it
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What exactly would your concern be and why?
Multiple reasons really, as a young person you are expected to be studying or working if you are 18+..
If you are travelling then it is a viable excuse.
Not everyone is so poor that they need to do that thankfully.
This sort of nonsense makes me glad my references imply I have been in continuous full time employment since uni.
