15 years
If there is nothing that could be useful I will take surfing school :P
There are a lot of surf hostels out there - the school might come in handy :D
What kind University course is best for hostel work?
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I kind of keep thinking on going to Australia on student visa so I would be able to work in some hostel there (as far I'm thinking about Sydney).
As for student visa I'm supposed to study something and why not study something that would prepare me for a hostel job and in a future for owning a hostel. But I don't know which profile of half year or year courses would be best for it (Hospitality??)
I would be grateful for ideas
If there is nothing that could be useful I will take surfing school :P that still allows me for student visa :D
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15 years
i started out doing architecture and ended up with degrees in economics and international relations. not sure if theyve been helpful, but combined with traveling they have given me a pretty good idea (i hope) of how the world works. education doesnt have to be vocational to be relevant IMO.
i still owe the aussie government the better part of $35,000AUD. :D
15 years
If there is nothing that could be useful I will take surfing school :P that still allows me for student visa :D
That's it right there - suf school sounds like the perfect answer.
My advice to anyone in school is this: take classes that you like and study subjects that interest you. In the end, your degree doesn't matter because it doesn't give any indication that you actually know anything. A degree simply says that you have learned how to learn.
I have degrees in Zoology and Spanish. Now I spend my summers running a hostel in Portugal and my winters teaching English in France. What ties it all together is that all of those things interst me, and therefore (I would argue) make me well rounded.
The key is in the transferable skills that you pick up along the way. What could you learn in surfing school that would make you a good hostel worker/manager/owner?
15 years
education doesnt have to be vocational to be relevant IMO.
I don't think it has to be related. I basically got a degree in how to eat roots and berries in the forest and make fire by rubbing two sticks together. Completely unrelated to what I ended up doing :D
15 years
Yeah
I'm just about to finish International Relationships (I know that it sounds kind of cool but not exactly on my Univ.)
I feel glad for some of the lecturers for making students mind an open mind.
Thats the best the studies gave me apart from some knowledge about the world in history and theory varying from region to region(I sure know more about east europe than central africa).
I keep thinking about it as a good soil for traveling ;)
15 years
I am currently enrolled in a Hotel mgmt program and would say 90-95% of the course work is relevant to opening/managing a hostel. I am currently enrolled in Human Resources, Hotel Law, International Marketing. My college also runs a quality Culinary arts program that I have also accumaleted credits in. I am doing this to market myself towards the large full service hostels here in the US. I will be the first to tell you it is not for everyone with a 60-75% dropout/fail rate. There is also a Entrepanaur/Small business mgmt program at the college that trains the student to go from concept to business launch, I would not be here if I did not think it was worth my time. This is not to say Travel and work experience are not important.
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