Thursday, November 6, 2008

Looking forward to time off

In just over three weeks I will be on vacation. An 11 night cruise of the Caribbean. I will visit Grand Cayman, Columbia, the Panama Canal, Costa Rica and Cozumel. I have never been to any of these places, closest would be Cancun, and never been to South America at all. I am so looking forward to doing not much of anything.
I like going on cruises, I have done both the Eastern and Western Mediterranean. Those were the last two vacations. The Eastern was in an inside cabin and was my first cruise. I had a great time. The Western was in a suite, I was selling cruises at the time and the sales representative upgraded me 3 days before I sailed. My boss said it was because I did a favor for a client. They had sailed on the same line in the summer and had left a bag at the port for Rome. I made arrangements to pick it up for them to bring back with me and save then several hundred dollars. I guess good deeds do get rewarded.
The previous years I had been to Rome and Paris staying in hotels. When I win the LOTTO, I will buy a place in Rome. It seems that vacation places have always been places where I have wanted to live. It started way back when in the mid 80s when I visited friends in Virginia Beach, Within a year I was living and working there. In the late 90s between jobs I visited Ft Lauderdale, I had been before on short stays, but after being here a week, I wanted to live here. That came true in 2001.
Of course back when I moved to Virginia Beach, I used a headhunter to find a position since the internet was still a novelty. My move to Ft Lauderdale was facilitated through a transfer. Though after getting laid off I used a web based employment site to obtain a new position. Of course if job.travel had been around then, I'm sure my search would have been shorter with less unsuitable jobs being sent to me.
So when you get back from that next wonderful trip and would like to explore employment options, check out job.travel, the possibilites are endless.

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