How to Manage Full-Time Work and Your Passion for Travel
By: Paradise Holidays
Tags: Travel, Tourism, Trip

If you love to travel and have a full-time job, then it may seem impossible to manage the two. Especially, with work demands, unsatisfied stakeholders and demanding bosses, that’s all you can do to maintain your life. For people who get paid to travel, it is a different story altogether.

In this article, we give you some tips on how to successfully manage both worlds — your zest for travel and passion for your work!

1. Be Focussed, Make Travel your Priority too

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If you wait for the right time to travel, you will never be able to plan. If you make travel your priority, you will find time for it. Suppose you work five days a week, how many days a month do you get as free days? 8–10, right? How many months are there in a year? Twelve, so 10x12 days would be 120 days, roughly. You have that many days to travel.

Alright, suppose you have to leave a day a month to do your errands, you still have 108 days, give or take a few days. If you can work overtime, your boss might give you a few days, and that can be added on as extra days of vacation.

2. Planning Makes it Perfect

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When you get the yearly calendar, you can plan your trips, and then adjust your work schedule. Make it as flexible as possible because work demands may encroach into your vacation days as well. If you don’t mind packing your bag on the day of your travel, and if you can function well on the same day as your vacation ends, then you can make it possible.

There are people who actually drive to their workplace right from the airport and work eight hours straight. But beware! This kind of trip is mainly for hyperactive people. If you need a few hours of rest after a hectic plane journey, don’t try this.

3. Blogging

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You can compile all your travels into an interesting blog. You will be visiting hundreds of people on your trips abroad and they would be curious to know about your travels. True, maintaining a blog will take more time than ever because you have to write, edit it, post pictures, promote the blog, answer emails and so on. But it brings in extra income too…

4. Make the most of Weekends and Holidays

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If you have a long weekend coming up, say Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Never let it go to waste. Work hard from Monday to Thursday, and enjoy a long weekend to an exotic destination. Does that sound good? Then try it.

Or you can adjust your work hours so you get an extra day or two and make it a vacation for 4–5 days. Certain workplaces do allow you to work an extra eight hours so you get an entire day to yourself.

5. Make the Best out of Business Trips

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Business trips need not be just business, you can a little bit of leisure and pleasure, especially if there are weekends connected to it. You can also stop somewhere on the way back, or go in a day earlier. If you are traveling during off-peak days, you can really make the most of it.

6. Make the Most of your Annual Salary Review

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If you are up for the annual salary review, then instead of money, you can ask for more vacation time. That is if money is not the foremost priority for you. If the company doesn’t have the provision to provide leave instead of money, then you may have to take unpaid vacations.

7. Choose Destinations with Low Travel Time

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When you plan to travel on a short vacation, you need to choose a closer destination. Maybe a nearby town that you’ve never been to but have been looking forward to. This would give you more joy than travel that takes up a day because that would leave you with very little time for exploration and the journey back home.

8. Having a Travel Fund

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Having a travel fund is a great idea because you don’t have to pool into your main accounts to fulfill your dream of traveling often. Just like you keep an emergency stash or fund somewhere, you can open a different account in a bank, and use it only for travel purposes. Pitch in every month, and use it whenever you need to travel.

Conclusion

When both travel and work are your passions, you can easily manage the two. You work hard for both, and you never even know it. People, who joke behind you each time you take off to some lovely destination will now ask you the question that most amateur travel enthusiasts or bloggers have, “How do you manage the two?” And if you happen to have a boss who loves traveling as much as you do, you are three times lucky.

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