11th May 2009, 01:48 PM
I'd also agree with using archaeology as a passport to travel, I used a four year stint in Germany as a base from which to travel round eastern Europe. I met some of the nicest people I think I'll ever meet, drank myself senseless in the capitol cities of the Austro-Hungarian Empire while gazing in wonder at fantastic Jugendstil and Bauhaus architecture and spent Millennium Eve waltzing in the snow outside Vienna's Rathaus. If anybody does get the chance to work abroad - then go for it.