You’ve probably seen the elf videos all over Instagram and TikTok — elves in Lapland, living what looks like the dream job. Walking to work through snow every morning? Baking cookies in a cabin in the middle of the forest?…
Seasonal jobs are often sold as the perfect way to travel and earn money — free housing, high savings, no experience required. But the reality is more complex than that. When I first started looking into seasonal work in Europe,…
Everyone says “go work a ski season abroad” — like it doesn’t matter where. It does. Pick the wrong country and you’ll barely cover rent. Pick the right one and you’ll come home with €12,000+ in the bank. What Kind…
€12,000. That’s what was sitting in my bank account four months after working a seasonal job. Not after years of cutting back, not after selling half my stuff — just four months of work in the Alps. I didn’t do…
