What is a gap year?

A gap year or career break can be whatever you want it to be. Some people travel solo or with a group of friends.

A gap year can be anything from spending a month or so in one destination to an entire year away backpacking and travelling around the world. Some people might opt for work on a volunteer project with animals, children or within a community, whilst others may choose to find paid work abroad simply as a means to make their gap year cash go further on their travels.

A gap year is typically taken before, during or after university or college. Those seeking a career break to re-charge their batteries can be any age or at any point in their career when they decide to go for it.

Perhaps the only common link between the many different activities, duration and destinations of gap year or career breaks is that everyone who takes one seems to come back saying it was the best decision they ever made.

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