Jonny Blair in Bournemouth

Working Wednesdays: The Easiest 5 Jobs to Travel The World With

Through my years of working and backpacking around the globe I’ve built up a wide and varied range of work experience. I’ve managed to find a job everywhere I’ve wanted one and this is mainly through hard work, a bit of charm and experience in the types of job that are easy to find as Read more about Working Wednesdays: The Easiest 5 Jobs to Travel The World With[…]

Working Wednesdays: Travel Expert for Think Places

  As my travel blog has built momentum over the years and more and more people read my stories, inevitably opportunities have fallen my way. I’m really excited about some of my latest side projects and no qualms with sharing them here on my Working Wednesdays feature. It was always my dream to earn a Read more about Working Wednesdays: Travel Expert for Think Places[…]

barman at oasis concert

Working Wednesdays: Barman at an Oasis Concert at the BIC, England! D’You Know What I Mean?

What a dream Working Wednesdays when you find out you’re working at a rock gig of one of your favourite bands! It was 2008 when I finally got free entry to an Oasis gig as I was working on the bar there! Between 1996 and 2008 I had been to 13 Oasis gigs as a Read more about Working Wednesdays: Barman at an Oasis Concert at the BIC, England! D’You Know What I Mean?[…]

graduation picnic

Working Wednesdays: K3 Graduation Picnic and Day of Sightseeing on Hong Kong Island

Today’s Working Wednesdays is as recent as a “WW” on Don’t Stop Living has ever been, as it happened last week on Friday 21st June 2013. Having been based in Hong Kong for the last two years or so of my nomadery, this has seen me take on about 5 or 6 different jobs, the Read more about Working Wednesdays: K3 Graduation Picnic and Day of Sightseeing on Hong Kong Island[…]

clay pigeon shooting in sydney

Monday’s Money Saving Tips: Work Freebies!!!

One of my favourite things about travelling is the FREE stuff you can get. I’ve worked in lots of jobs which had FREE food, drink and other things. As an employee, it is important to milk free stuff from your company while still enjoying your work and being a professional employee. Even if it’s not Read more about Monday’s Money Saving Tips: Work Freebies!!![…]

jonny blair on pavilion bar bournemouth

Working Wednesdays: Serving Tea and Coffee at Ballroom Dances in Bournemouth Pavilion Theatre, England

Today’s working Wednesdays takes me back to the seaside town of Bournemouth in England. It’s a town I spent about 5-6 years in or around. I had a lot of different jobs there, some of which I have already written about (selling ice cream, barman in a hotel). Bournemouth was a really decent base for Read more about Working Wednesdays: Serving Tea and Coffee at Ballroom Dances in Bournemouth Pavilion Theatre, England[…]

pj gallaghers irish pub drummoyne sydney

Working Wednesdays: Barman in PJ Gallagher’s Irish Pub in Drummoyne, Sydney, Australia

I’ve written a fair amount on Irish Pubs on here, and even also about the time I worked in Sydney, but here today on Working Wednesdays I’m reminiscing on that surreal time in the land down under where I worked in a pub modelled on the Crown Bar in Belfast! The pub, once owned by Read more about Working Wednesdays: Barman in PJ Gallagher’s Irish Pub in Drummoyne, Sydney, Australia[…]

frog suit on london underground

The Day I…Dressed as a Frog on the London Underground System

I spent a year living and working in London, and a fair bit longer travelling there to and fro over the years. It’s a city oozing in passion, but it’s all a bit too “business like” for me. Full of people in suits and briefcases, people with phones that do stuff only computers used to Read more about The Day I…Dressed as a Frog on the London Underground System[…]