Lately I've really been considering the possibility of traveling different places (pref. outside of the U.S.) and getting jobs from place to place in order to fund my travels. Does anybody know if this is very possible in this day and age? I'm still a bit sketched out about the sites who claim to help with this as many of them are fake etc.... I'm 18 years old and in my first term of college, and although I am enjoying the college atmosphere, my love for new places and adventure is to much for me to be strapped down to a Univeristy and having to turn in papers etc....
You should finish college first since you started already. A lot of hostels let you stay for free if you spend a few hours a day doing laundry and helping clean. And most hostels serve breakfast to their guests for free, so you can get a free room, free breakfast, and grab some stuff from breakfast for lunch, and there you go. 1/2 the hostels I've stayed in have signs up asking for people to do that. No residency / visa checks either.
In your first term! No man he should stop right now. I'm halfway through the 3rd year, for me it would be crazy to stop now but ohhh do I regret me still being here...
I have no experience with what you are planning to do, but I do have kind of the same aspirations to spent my three months summer holiday. i once read about this organisation wwoof in a magazine that really looked up some of the residences that were commited to this organisation. www.wwoof.org, it's an organisation that helps people who sign up find organic farms to stay and work for a limited amount of time. this organisation might be trustable
I've been WWOOFing last summer in Belgium and France. it was cool. every farm/community was different, some made you work (not very hard), other didn't really, some were superorganised, some were just a bunch of pot-smoking hippies, one was a family, one was a huge farm, and on all of them I met really cool and inspiring people!
just go. worry about it later. where do you want to go? I can tell you that you'd be able to do volounteer work in Asia, probably India and getting cash work in a bar should be no problem in New Zealand or Australia. I don't have experience with other areas, but if you can tend bar I guarantee you could also get cash work on Mediterranean party islands, and probably most of southern Europe.
