Try a job abroad as a children's holiday rep for something new, says Annette Rawstrone
Has the start of the new millennium made you reflect on your life and caused you to make umpteen resolutions to do something different and exciting this year? Children's rep Fiona Bruce would encourage you to go with your dreams. She impulsively decided to take her childcare experience abroad and now, five years on, ensconced on a paradise island in the Caribbean, she can't ever imagine doing an 'ordinary' job again.
An NNEB, NVQ in playwork or equivalent qualification is your passport to working abroad in exotic locations as a children's rep. The hours tend to be long, the work demanding and the pay basic - around #80 per week - but in return you get food and shared accommodation provided. Not to mention the perks of a lasting tan, a ready- made social life and all the fun that living in a new country and investigating a different culture can hold.
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