The Working Traveller Blog Is Moving
Hello Reader. How are you? Happy New Year and welcome to the new home of The Working Traveller.
After our travel plans changed last year we were already working on some much needed updates to all to our websites but decided to be much more radical and go for a full redesign and reorganisation. Unlike most people that have had to adapt their circumstances in 2020 ours wasn’t entirely because of Covid. After a visit to the UK last year we were off back out into the World again, visiting Morocco, Tunisia and Turkey before heading back to Thailand. Then a relative had a fall and we decided to stay in the UK more permanently.
While we of course have sympathy for everyone else that have had their lives curtailed, Covid arrived at probably the best time for two people who can’t drive that decided to move to the countryside, miles away from friends, the nearest shop or bus route. We have a roof over our heads and little to miss that we wouldn’t have missed anyway. I guess I’m a glass half full type of guy.
There are fields front and back of us, a section of garden in which sheep randomly appear for a few months to nibble away at the grass, a table to work on with plenty that I’m keen to do, regardless whether we’re being paid or not. We’ve got ourselves a couple of bikes and can almost make it up the hill to the shop without puking or having to lay down beside the road for a bit.
Most importantly, unlike the last time we visited home, we have an unlimited fast enough internet connection that doesn’t require putting the phone on top of the shed to get a signal. If this goes I’m a scream, smash the glass and cry type of guy.
When our income plummeted we no longer had to worry about paying advertisers being effected while we shifted the furniture around. Though we have kept displaying past advertisers who, through no fault of their own haven’t been able to renew, we have had the freedom to close down some of our sites and move the content elsewhere without breaking any agreements.
Over the years we have moved things around here and there for reasons I can no longer remember but seemed a good idea at the time. Often it just created more work for me. The Working Traveller, for instance, has been a printed small press magazine, the magazine of our first website PAYAway, and the magazine of the Overseas Job Centre, until it finally settled into a blog format in 2010 as an independent website. From now on TWT will become the blog of the Jobs Abroad Bulletin, and part of our main website.
Coming Up on The Working Traveller
TWT had been reduced mostly to a photo a week in recent years so we are going to try something new here from now on. We have accumulated ten years of posts and some are even half decent. From today we will be posting daily to TWT. Some days it will be just a photo but we have plenty of travel posts and photo features ready for updates too. I expect it will take a while to move everything here so The Working Traveller as a separate site will continue to have a half life for a little while yet.
Eventually we hope to update and repost our travel articles, as well as add new working abroad features and news but this is a little trickier at the moment when travelling abroad to work is in such flux. Hopefully later this year.
Changes to the Jobs Abroad Bulletin and our Other Websites
Though we have been posting vacancies sent to the Jobs Abroad Bulletin, the number of jobs we have been receiving has fallen through the floor. This should pick up in 2021 but to compensate we had already moved the JobSpy column from The Working Traveller to JAB, reposting a portion of recruitment adverts we find on other websites before sending you over to the host site for the full details and to apply. JAB already had its own JobSpy category, where every weekday we posted five links to vacancies we found on other websites, but we have suspended this for the time being.
We have closed down our Free (or Cheap) Volunteer Work Abroad website and moved the content to JAB as the first mini site that we hope to host here. Every page and listing has been checked and updated and we have added a few new ones too – though, as always, there are many more NGOs to evaluate and add.
The Overseas Job Centre UnAgency now forms part of the Jobs Abroad Bulletin too and the working abroad articles and big directory of useful links have been moved here and here. These are long overdue an update and will get one soon.
There is much more to do but we are not going anywhere, literally or figuratively, for a while. One advantage of being a small operation is we haven’t had to lay anyone off. Our costs are low and we are well used to living within our means.
When countries open up and travel returns to some sense of normality there will be many casualties both in our home countries and where we will wish to travel but we will still be here, hopefully with word of a vacancy abroad that once again will help you to finance a stay somewhere exciting and new.
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