gap year boredom

[ErrantWhatever]

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Anyone else really excited that it's almost February already? Soon August will be here. It has been fantastic to clock in and out of a research job and have nothing to study, no lab reports due, and no horrible exam around the corner, but at some point boredom absolutely sets in. I can try picking up new hobbies or re-instituting old ones, but I'm starting to reach that point where I daily have to say, "You will either get this again when you are 70 or never again (cuz you're dead...in which case, maybe you'll have it again.). So enjoy it, @ss." Or I'll just call up a buddy in residency and let him bitch me out for being able to experience boredom.

Anybody else feelin' the itch?

 

[Patassa]

Anyone else really excited that it's almost February already? Soon August will be here. It has been fantastic to clock in and out of a research job and have nothing to study, no lab reports due, and no horrible exam around the corner, but at some point boredom absolutely sets in. I can try picking up new hobbies or re-instituting old ones, but I'm starting to reach that point where I daily have to say, "You will either get this again when you are 70 or never again (cuz you're dead...in which case, maybe you'll have it again.). So enjoy it, @ss." Or I'll just call up a buddy in residency and let him bitch me out for being able to experience boredom.

Anybody else feelin' the itch?

Assuming you're single, why don't you travel? Go wwoof. Wwoof.org, bounce around Europe, S.America, or Asia, whatever. There's plenty to do and see. Go spend a few months in Africa or C.A./S.A. at a clinic in the bush or the jungle. Go pick fruit in New Zealand or Australia. If you're bored, you're not trying.

 

[ErrantWhatever]

Assuming you're single, why don't you travel? Go wwoof. Wwoof.org, bounce around Europe, S.America, or Asia, whatever. There's plenty to do and see. Go spend a few months in Africa or C.A./S.A. at a clinic in the bush or the jungle. Go pick fruit in New Zealand or Australia. If you're bored, you're not trying.

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[Patassa]

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Wwoof = work for room and board on organic farms. Getting yourself to Europe and carpooling (covoiturage or carblabla in France or the UK) really isn't that much money.

You could also line up working in Hostels for room and small stipend.

Fruit pickers get paid decently.

The cost of getting to these places really isn't that much, sell some crap you don't need, sacrifice drinks/dates/cable/whatever luxuries you don't need for a couple of months and you'd have the money I bet.

 

[lunalight]

Anyone else really excited that it's almost February already? Soon August will be here. It has been fantastic to clock in and out of a research job and have nothing to study, no lab reports due, and no horrible exam around the corner, but at some point boredom absolutely sets in. I can try picking up new hobbies or re-instituting old ones, but I'm starting to reach that point where I daily have to say, "You will either get this again when you are 70 or never again (cuz you're dead...in which case, maybe you'll have it again.). So enjoy it, @ss." Or I'll just call up a buddy in residency and let him bitch me out for being able to experience boredom.

Anybody else feelin' the itch?

Grad school = not bored 🙁

Today is the first day of spring term. Blerg.... I complain about being busy, but TBH I get cranky when I go too long without something to do. I'm can't believe it's almost Feb either! So excited for July. Been working towards this for 3 years, trying to "make up" for all the mistakes from before, what a great milestone the first day of MS1 will be.

 

[kami333]

Wwoof = work for room and board on organic farms. Getting yourself to Europe and carpooling (covoiturage or carblabla in France or the UK) really isn't that much money.

You could also line up working in Hostels for room and small stipend.

Fruit pickers get paid decently.

The cost of getting to these places really isn't that much, sell some crap you don't need, sacrifice drinks/dates/cable/whatever luxuries you don't need for a couple of months and you'd have the money I bet.

^ This!

It was always my dream to try the working holiday, unfortunately at this point I'm too old and have too many animals/bills that need my constant attention. I did have the opportunity to work abroad after graduating college and loved it, only came back after renewing my visa became impossible.