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Taking a gap year to travel the world only turns the young into fantasists (guardian.co.uk)
1 point by dc3 on Jan 10, 2011 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



Oh yes, it is better to prepare yourself to the dead-end desk job in a country that has fallen out of touch of the developing world, or in other words, has stagnated.

Jobs of the future will not be lawyering or doing corporate programming in England. They will be in solving real-world problems anywhere. And traveling can at least give some perspective for that.

Anything else is sticking your head into the sand and believing that the economical domination of the West will be eternal.




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