Hello Everyone,
Rasa and I have just finished graduate school at Australian National University and are back in the States until April 2010. I graduated with a master’s in Environmental Management and Development and Rasa with a master’s in Applied Anthropology and Participatory Development. We hope to use these degrees and the next couple of months to look for development work abroad. If we do not find anything, we have a backup adventure to tide us over.
As for work, we currently have our resumes in at Peace Corps, USAID, the State Department, UNDP and UNESCO. These jobs sometimes take up to two years to get through the hiring process so we are waiting. While we are doing this we are extending our search to short-term contracts with smaller organizations like Action Against Hunger, ACTED, Care or any others you could recommend. We really have no preference as to where we end up, just that it is someplace worth our while.
If we do not find anything, then we plan to do the London to Mongolia Rally but take our time to rubberneck. While passing through these countries, we will also be knocking on doors and looking for work in person. Plus, we need more material for our blogs, especially now that Rasa will be documenting future adventures in video (inspired by Sonia). If interested, you can subscribe to receive her updates at robrasa.com/herblog (just enter your email in the upper right box).
In the mean time, Rasa and I will both finish our Africa blog posts and then go through our year in the South Pacific before starting our next road trip in April. I will catch up on our route map through Africa as well, which was last updated in Cameroon. We will also make a trip to the West Coast some time after February to visit friends and family, until then we are staying in NY. Lastly, by popular demand we will be publishing a photo journal of our Africa trip. I’ll let you know when it is up in our book section.
So please keep reading and commenting on my blog, it motivates me to keep it going. As always, thank you for that.
Rob and Rasa – have a great trip. Finally, after much technical challenge, the Gallery (and pictures of Rasa) are up on the PWW website.
Wow!!! It’s an impressive web-site/ blog/ adventure all in all. Keep living the dream guys and documenting it as well as you are so that those who are not able or willing to venture as widely as you both are able to live their dreams through you. It’s great knowing you both xxx
In my 77+ years of life, and a half century career in the Community Economic Development field that’s taken me all over this world, I’ve found that job skills have increasingly become like highly specialized products.
This type of products have “niche” markets; and the trick is, to find just that right niche & fill it. (“Building a better mousetrap” doesn’t really get the job done any more; there are simply too many “mousetraps” out there, and it takes so much time & resources to inform & educate the buying public.)
Finally, make sure that “niche” is an all around comfortable fit; one spends a lot of time in their work, so it should always be satisfying/gratifying, rather than just something to pay the bills.
With your education, experiences & talents, I’ve not a single doubt you’ll both find your appropriate “niches” very soon.
Rob & Rasa,
congratulations on finishing your most recent round of studies. I know it’s difficult and I appreciate all you put into it. I’m glad for you.
All i can say, again, is Wow! Your shots are fantastic. I love sand dunes, so the one of Peta walking along the top of the dune, and seeing the contrast of the sand against the blue sky was extraordinary. Just amazing! Thanks again for sharing…
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Congratulations on the DOS result!
All the best,
Leopoldo
I love it!
thanks robert for showing normal routine life of Mangolian people.I m going on official duty there n curious about mangolia .U r really my taste i m always try to see daily life of local people.
Sharma, thanks for the comment. We loved Mongolia and can’t wait until we have a chance to return.