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Lonely Planet The Career Break Book Lonely Planet The Career Break Book Ref: LP0426

Stop daydreaming at your desk, ditch the nine to five, say ciao to the rat race - take life by the scruff of the neck and give it a shake! Whether you want to pen a novel, gawp at migrating wildebeest, row the Atlantic or relax on a Goan beach, The Career Break Book is the guide for you.

Questions you'll ask - answered

* What should I do with my house, mortgage, finances, pension, pets, car etc.?
* How can I ask my employer for time off?
* What happens if I take my children out of school?
* How will future employers view my career break?
* What if I decide not to come back??

Exciting ideas - and how to realise them

* Watch polar bears from a tundra buggy
* Learn Thai massage at a monastery
* Take a felucca up the Nile
* Build a house or rent an island
* Join the UN Volunteer Programme
* Monitor animal populations for the US National Park Service
* Write a best-seller
* Sail around the Caribbean
* Visit an ashram in Kerala
* Take the Trans-Mongolian Express from Moscow to Beijing
* All this and much more!

1st Edition / January 2005
ISBN: 1740598660 / 9781740598668
288 pp / 4 pp colour
Charlotte Hindle , Clare Hargreaves , Andrew Dean Nystrom , Jill Kirby , Joe Bindloss



   £12.99  


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