Today’s Working Wednesdays bring me a reminder of a job even I forgot that I once did. I worked in PR for a company called Card Protection Plan (CPP) a few years back. I have written before in parts about my time working as a PR (Public Relations) Assistant for Bite Communications. An excellent global Read more about Working Wednesdays: Doing PR for Card Protection Plan in London, England[…]
Being a global nomad and not having a home means you’re constantly changing your style of accommodation. You’re also willing to take whatever accommodation comes about. How about a free night sleeping in a farmer’s barn in Tasmania then? Yes please, I’ll take it! We’re going back to April 2010 for this story…the night I Read more about The Night I…Slept In A Farmer’s Barn in Tasmania[…]
Weeding. Got to love it. I’m not even being sarcastic here. I can’t remember the total number of days I spent weeding when I lived in Tasmania but it was somewhere between 10 and 20. Long days of just filling white sacks with weeds. I’ve written a bit about them before, but not much on Read more about Working Wednesdays: Weeding Out A Bean Paddock in Bishopsbourne, Tasmania[…]
I was recently thinking about my job history, including all the unpaid work, the work I have done for friends, the work I have done for others on top of my 50 plus jobs where I’ve been earning money around the world. It astounds even me, as until recently I didn’t actually realise how many Read more about Working Wednesdays: Cashier/Till Clerk in Tesco, Branksome, Poole, England[…]
Thinking about escaping the boredom and mundane-ness of your home town, village or city? But not sure where to go? Here’s a piece on how YOU can move to the skyscraping metropolis of Hong Kong and teach English! A quick guide to teaching English in Hong Kong, all from four years of my personal experience Read more about A Guide To Teaching English in Hong Kong[…]
You might have read a few of my book reviews on here before, but this is one with a difference. It’s not a story about a guy travelling round South America chasing after the girl of his dreams or about a globetrotting Northern Ireland football fan. Let’s get serious for once. This is Nomadic Matt’s Read more about Book Review: How to Make Money With Your Travel Blog by Matt Kepnes[…]
By the end of 2011 I had worked in 3 schools in Hong Kong as an English teacher. I always like to pick up extra work on my travels and I got the opportunity to work on Saturdays at a Primary School in Yuen Long. I like the charm of Yuen Long – I Read more about Working Wednesdays: Teaching English in Yuen Long, Hong Kong[…]
My final flirt with cauliflower harvesting and indeed working on Tasmanian farms came at Phil’s Farm on Loanes Lane, Ambleside in East Devonport in Northern Tasmania. I had spent almost 6 months living in Tasmania, working on farms almost the entire time and still fitting travel and sightseeing in on my days off. As a Read more about Working Wednesdays: Cauliflower Harvest at Ambleside, East Devonport, Tasmania, Australia[…]