The "Working Holiday"

The "working holiday" is something that only Europeans, Australians, and New Zealanders seem to do. I haven't met any Americans or Asians doing this. It's an oxymoron to Americans. If you are working, you are not on vacation and if you are on vacation, you are not working. "Working Holiday" exists here because travel is very much part of what all young people in Europe, Australia, and New Zealand do. It's part of the culture there.

They travel for a year, sometimes more. Most of them either just finished high school or university. Very few of them have enough money to travel for a year or even a few months. Therefore, they came up with this idea of work-to-travel. The governments of these countries support this by granting "working holiday visas" to people under 30 to spend up to a year in their country where they are allowed to work and make money, so they can travel. I met a few people here, where they spend multiple years on a "working holiday", spending a year working and traveling in a country, then getting another working holiday visa in a different country and working there.