Are you looking to take an extended vacation? Are you in-between careers and want to see the world before sticking your nose back to the grindstone? Then surf on over to www.CareerBreakCafé.com and see what you’re missing.
This is not your mother’s travel agaency. CareerBreakCafé.com was founded by Ben Keene of Britain, upon the concept that time off to travel can also mean time off to travel meaningfully.
According to CareerBreakCafé.com, “More people taking structured career breaks means more people getting out there spending their time doing something positive with their lives, and in many cases making a difference to other people’s lives simultaneously. It also means happier people, returning to work reinvigorated, better educated and with a healthier lifestyle.”
The most recent examples of this on American soil are the thousands of university students who spent their Spring Breaks helping to rebuild New Orleans and the many other Hurricane Katrina-devastated communities along the Gulf Coast.
Surfing the site is easy. The format is magazine style combined with an online community. Because it is a British website, there is some vocabulary common to Brits but unfamiliar to the rest of us English-speakers. For example, there is constant reference to a “gap year”. Unable to get a response from any of the website creators, we are left to speculation. To the best of our interpretation, “gap year” appears to be a specific time between school careers (high school to college or college to grad school) when British subjects are required to do some form of community service.
CareerBreakCafé.com offers guidance on all things related to the big break. The site has an A-Z of things to do, places to go and how to do it. Another great feature of the site is the weekly online magazine. If you’re unsure whether or not spending significant time off the career track doing something positive with your life is worth the hassle, read these stories. One especially inspirational tale was written by Alastair Humphreys.
Humphreys departed England in 2001 to cycle around the world. He arrived back home in November 2005. His solo, unsupported journey of 46,000 miles crossed 60 countries and 5 continents on a budget of just £7,000 (about $13,200.00). The journey was in support of Hope and Homes for Children.
Even if you’re not inclined to abandon your cubicle for the great outdoors and all that that entails, reading the various Career Break Inspirations is itself a breath of fresh air. For educators at the junior high level and above, CareerBreakCafé.com has the added benefit of supplementing geography and social science classes.
So, to summarize, CareerBreakCafé.com is an easy to surf online travel agency for folks wanting to take serious time off from work or school to pursue positive, life-changing experiences. It’s got enough quality content to warrant repeat visits and to recommend to friends. It’s kind of a broken record at Brizos that any site worth building is worth building in other languages too. Especially in this of CareerBreakCafé.com where time off to do good works is not limited to the British.
So, on the Brizos SiteSurfin’ scale, www.careerbreakcafe.com rates a “T”, appropriate for teens and older.
