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Show foreign campaigns are skilled salesmen and saleswomen who sell everything from radios to plastic products. The airlines and the steamship companies employ a wide variety of Gullivers. If you are looking for statistics you will find approximately 300 jobs that can be filled by competent compe-tent people for work abroad. The question of whether you are competent com-petent can only be answered by you yourself. You should have the required education, plus the essential es-sential qualifications, plus experience, experi-ence, plus a real desire to live abroad and not grumble over the sacrifices necessary to such a move. An ambition to see the world can be satisfied. Should it be your ambition right now might be a good time to query the vocational field appealing to you and streamlining stream-lining your education accordingly. ir.: ,rra steamer wall numnUuiiy, St LEa train wWstle in the distance une roar overhead and the Gulliver sigh deeply. sounds mean far-o places ?V those faraway places is where hi:;' ?" ..wts to be. .V Thl ven to see another part of ,J world is a perfectly normal I- Many young men and worn- ' "".'re satisfying that desire and I1- eaminS a salary besides. They are Lly aiming at a career abroad. Tnd it is not always a job with -ft tanner headlines. The position of 4 teaching for instance, is regarded M a typical stay-at-home job. Yet Pii can be a springboard to foreign jjjvei. School teachers, both male 111. ' and female, have been sent abroad If to teach the children of military personnel. These young teachers j tavel wherever military personnel !3v be stationed. Opportunities for overseas teaching teach-ing may also be had in the mission 3. jjy. Teachers are being sent to Alaska, Tuerto Rico, Hawaii, the Canal Zone, the Virgin Islands, Cuba, Guam and other parts of the world. Salaries are generally lower than thoso paid in the United States but the teacher who wants to see life abroad counts the experience ex-perience as the added value. Many of the large oil companies employ teachers for their employes em-ployes children. A teacher, under oil contract, could be sent to Africa, Af-rica, South America or even Iran. JJTJESES, doctors, technologists and others connected with medicine are in demand by the government, the oil companies and the mission fields. Openings in the foreign service, through the State Department and the War Department, have been found for secretaries, typists and stenographers. Librarians too are sent overseas through the Office of Special Service. Frequently commissioned for |