GirlGI | Girl Gone International Issue 9 | Page 38

WANDERLUST:

For the Young, Broke Professional
By: Deidre Mathis

5 Most Employable Skills I Learned From Travel
After graduating with my Master’s degree, I decided
that I wanted to take some time off from work and life
to complete a gap year. I feared many people would
think a gap year at that point of my life was crazy
considering I was a 26 year old recent graduate who
had the type of job my parents described as a

‘good government job’, but I wasn’t happy or fulfilled.
I had been in school since age 6 and I had done
everything I was supposed to in life by that point so I decided I would finally embark on something
that I truly wanted to do. I took every penny I had to
my name and financed a year doing things that only
brought fulfillment, meaning, and pleasure to my life.