About

The Working Traveller has been in existence in one form or another since 1992. Then it was a quarterly photocopied black and white A5 magazine produced with recycled ink from a college photocopier. It has also been the online magazine to our main website, the Overseas Job Centre.

But where the Overseas Job Centre covers working abroad in a more in-depth manner and is usually updated in bulk (often up to 50 pages at a time), the blog format allows us to post more easily and often, particularly when we are on the move, and to maintain a dialogue with you through your comments or via Twitter.

The Working Traveller’s focus is on travel and how to finance a trip or stay away for longer by working overseas; combining first hand posts and photos from our own travels with researched articles on working abroad and volunteering. We include some travel blogging and social media stuff too as we consider this a part of modern travelling and can be a way to work abroad.

The Working Travellers are Deirdre Higgins, a Northern Irish veteran of the working week in France, Belgium, Peru and Britain, and Shane Donovan, from London, who has successfully evaded a real job for many years. Highlights from our travels include standing on a baby in Peru and almost falling off a cliff in Indonesia.

We are recently returned from our third extended bout of travelling and now live in Turkey. We first went around the world in 2002 and maintained our website and (as it was then) email newsletter, the Jobs Abroad Bulletin, in Cusco, Buenos Aires, Auckland, Bangkok, and Malacca, among other places. In the picture below we are the guy in the cool hat and the short one foolishly standing next to a really tall Dutchman.