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How (and Why) to Include Travel on Your Resume

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Day 2 of 30. Welcome to my social experiment in... Day 2 of 30. Welcome to my social experiment in...

Quitting my job in my 30s to take a DIY sabbatical 🎉

I have had a lot of intrusive thoughts cross my mind over the past several months leading up to today: 

Am I harming my career by taking time off? 

Have I saved enough money to do this?

Will I still be hireable when it’s all said and done?

Is it too late for me to be doing something like this? 

Am I making a mistake? 

But the more I thought about it, the more I knew in my gut that the only thing scarier than leaving a comfortable job I love… is living with regret and forever wondering ‘what if.’

So, here we are! Nervous, excited, possibly going to throw up a little if I think about it any more, but going for it nonetheless. At the end of the day, that’s all we can really do when we want something that terrifies us badly enough. 

Stay tuned for part 2 in 2 days... this is me #GoingForTheGap 🫶🏽
I am in the middle of a big life change (1/30), an I am in the middle of a big life change (1/30), and I’m challenging myself to open up about every emotion along the way. 🥹

You know that feeling where you know you’ve outgrown a situation, a moment in your life, but are too afraid of escaping that comfortable, familiar place in search of something new?

Where you can sense that something is shifting inside of you, but if you voice it, it becomes real, and you’re not sure if you’re ready for all of that? 

This is the moment I’m in.

welcome to my 30ish day challenge of posting. Documenting. Showing up and feeling all the things as I take a leap I’ve been hoping to do for ages.

Truthfully, I don’t really know what I’m doing, but I’ll be figuring it all out as I go! 

Any guesses? 

#30daychallenge | vlog | #fyp
I am in the middle of a big life change, and I’m I am in the middle of a big life change, and I’m challenging myself to open up about every emotion along the way 🥹 Day 1

You know that feeling where you know you’ve outgrown a situation, a moment in your life, but are too afraid of escaping that comfortable, familiar place in search of something new?

Where you can sense that something is shifting inside of you, but if you voice it, it becomes real, and you’re not sure if you’re ready for all of that? 

This is the moment I’m in.

welcome to my 30ish day challenge of posting. Documenting. Showing up and feeling all the things as I take a leap I’ve been hoping to do for ages.

Truthfully, I don’t really know what I’m doing, but I’ll be figuring it all out as I go! 

Any guesses? 

#30daychallenge | vlog | #fyp
Visit Mo’orea with me! 🌴 Have you heard of t Visit Mo’orea with me! 🌴

Have you heard of this island? I took a solo trip here from Tahiti on my last day in French Polynesia and this is how I spent it. I’d have loved to spend more than a day here but this was all the time I had and when there’s a will, I’ll find a way. Like biking nearly 30 miles on an e-bike in one day which transparently, I have never done before 😅

Side note, in preparation for my 30(ish) day posting challenge, I’m already challenging myself to show up more consistently, more authentically, less polished. My goal is to fall in love with social media again. I’m starting by having more fun with video editing and voiceovers, like this one.

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Tahiti | French Polynesia | Moorea | #moorea | #freediving | Coral Gardeners | #coralgardeners | #travel
Postcards from Polynesia 🌴 Has a place ever fe Postcards from Polynesia 🌴

Has a place ever felt like a warm hug and a familiar friend? French Polynesia felt like this to me. Like a place I’ve known my whole life. If it weren’t for the French speaking and the love of roquefort (jokes but seriously I will never be sophisticated enough for blue cheese) I’d say it felt like home.

Some of my favorite moments from my first time in these beautiful islands (swipe):

🌸 Watching the surfers at world-famous Teahupoo
🌸 Every time a whale revealed itself to us 🫶🏽
🌸 This playful little girl, who had no idea how big she was and got a liiiiittle too close 🥹😅
🌸 Boat chats, dancing, and endless inside jokes 
🌸 Swimming with a fever of 20+ eagle rays, where I felt time slow down before my eyes 
🌸 Our wonderful hosts for the week and of course, the pink pony club 🐴
🌸 Seeing a coral nursery and feeling hope 

🫶🏽 i have one more post from French Polynesia coming for now, thank you for following along!

📸 underwater photos @natureman.j 

French Polynesia | Tahiti | Humpback Whales | Freediving | #FYP | #freedivers | #travel
When the doomscroll aches, look around, come up fo When the doomscroll aches, look around, come up for air, and name at least 3 things to be grateful for. 

Can you do that? 

PS - Follow @racheloffduty for more travel joy. I’m on a journey of self re(discovery) in my 30s, and I’d love to take you along 🫶🏽
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