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Your privilege is showing. Most people can't afford to take a month off, let alone a year. Paying for world travel is out of the question.


In the UK lots of people max out their overdraft and spend some time travelling after uni. They then pay this back when they get good grad jobs - e.g. like the OP.

Regardless - if you cannot afford to do some travelling after uni, spending time in a war zone is hardly a sound alternative.


>Regardless - if you cannot afford to do some travelling after uni, spending time in a war zone is hardly a sound alternative.

Depends on the person.

"There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough, and liked it, never really care for anything else."


That makes no sense in context on the author's statement, which was essentially saying, I did this because I wanted to, NOT because I had no choice.




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