How to Work Abroad After College

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A Guide for Recent Graduates

By Katie Krueger

So you have graduated from college. Now what? I became so sick of hearing that question the summer after I graduated that the only thing that made it bearable was to watch people’s reactions when I told them I was moving to India. Friends congratulated me and then confided that they would like to go overseas, but too many things were standing in their way: finances, pressure from parents, graduate school, or simply not having a clue for how to find work. Their responses come as no surprise. According to surveys conducted by the American Council on Education, 93 percent of students who wanted to study abroad as undergraduates never did, which means that the nation’s graduates have some serious unfulfilled wanderlust.

Convincing Yourself and Your Parents

The first thing you must do to prepare for your work abroad experience is convince yourself that 'nothing is impossible,' says Emily Hutter, a 2001 Colorado Univ. graduate who worked in Colombia as an English teacher a year after graduation. “I was not ready to get settled and 15 years down the road wonder how I missed out on something I always knew I wanted to try,' she says. So she moved in with her parents and worked a variety of jobs for on"