The more young universitsy grad/backpackers we meet, the bigger fans we become of the “Gap Year” concept.
That is. finish Secondary School. Pack your bags. Buy a ticket. Then spend the next year discovering the world and all it has to offer.
So often, a young pers0n is asked to decide the course of his entire life when he or she is still in their teens. More often than not, that is patently absurd.
Take Sophia, a young lady from France. She’s bright. attractive, focused well-qualified but she’s looking for “any” job.
In fact. Sophia is a qualified Optomitrist which we all know is a pretty good and lucrative career. Like so many young students she went straight from her secondary to study Optometry.
She worked at it for a few years discovering she hated it!
Rather than falling into a rut and working at a job she didn’t enjoy until she retires, she went back to school to study business and marketing. That decision landed her excellent positions in marketing and public relations.
Still, she has decided to take a break and travel. It is so difficult for some young people to find their direction in life when they are still not sure of just what life has to offer.
So taking a Gap Year to work and travel is a lot like Captain Kirk of the Star Ship Enterprise when he l00ks out into the unknown, and says to his crew; Let’s see what’s out there.”
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La Belle Sophia avec Thibault.