The Exit Row
A monthly newsletter for women chasing a big, bold life. Every issue leads with one story, one lesson, and curated resources across travel, lifestyle, career, and every other corner of your dream life.
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Happy Sunday Reader, Quick heads up: you've probably noticed this is called The Snippet now. That's because it's officially a teaser, the condensed version of SeekPTO Sunday. The full newsletter has all 18 opportunities, our tips, and access to our digital products. It's built for members who are ready to get paid travel opportunities delivered every week and ready to go after them. If you're on the Snippet, you're probably still getting a feel for how SeekPTO works, or you want a few more stories before you jump in. That's completely fine. That's exactly what this is for. This is us meeting you exactly where you are. Whenever you're ready, upgrading is a one-time purchase that lasts all year, and it takes you straight into the full SeekPTO Sunday. If you're worried about being too much for a normal job, listen closely. Picture a tiny single-engine plane on a regional airstrip. Propeller loud enough to drown out every voice in your head telling you to go back to your desk. That's where I was on a Tuesday afternoon. On my actual lunch break. From my actual engineering job. Corporate life and I had been circling each other for months, two systems running on different frequencies. Meetings that could've been one sentence. A dress code for my personality, not just my clothes. I kept trying to fold myself into the right shape and kept springing back out, every single time. So one day I just left. Drove to the airfield twenty minutes from the office, grabbed a headset, and went up. HR never heard about this. Good 😅. I came back forty-five minutes later with grass stains on my shoes and no excuse ready. My manager called me into his office that same afternoon. I sat there bracing for the word "terminated," doing the math on how long my savings would last. He looked at me for a long second. Then he just asked why. The true answer surprised even me: I needed air I couldn't get anywhere in that building! That's the tell you're onto the right unconventional thing: it makes zero sense to anyone except you, and you do it anyway. I kept that job a while longer. But that flight is the exact moment I started building my real exit, the one that became Packs Light, then SeekPTO, then this very newsletter landing in your inbox on a Sunday instead of a meeting invite. I still think about that airstrip every time I open my laptop to write one of these. The propeller noise. The grass on my shoes. Proof that the version of you that makes zero sense in a conference room can make complete sense somewhere else entirely. If this week's PTO wants a slightly weird version of you, that's probably exactly the one to apply to. This week, we found 15 new ways you can be paid to travel ✈️Fellowships, scholarships, remote roles, sweepstakes, and other funded programs. All vetted, all legit, all waiting for someone like you to apply. Ordered by deadline, closest first. Only for our paid members of SeekPTO. But here's your Sunday Snippet for being on our free list:
10x fully-funded spots at a global youth summit in Romania
Heads up: there's a $19.99 application fee. There are also 20 partially-funded winners chosen on top of this. 🔵✈️ Win two round-trip flights to Seoul, worth up to $4,000
All other travel expenses responsibility of the winner. 🔵✈️ $2,000–$3,000 scholarships for young Americans to travel anywhere
20x total winners chosen. For the 5x winners of the first passport award, extra award money will be given to cover a passport and awardees will be paired with a travel mentor to help plan their first trip abroad. There's $70,000+ in travel funding, adventures, and opportunities just one membership away. Upgrade today to get the full list of 18 Paid Travel Opportunities delivered straight to your inbox on SeekPTO Sundays.
Tip: check out with the same email this Snippet arrives at, so your membership connects to your account. 🗳️ Help Us Hunt SmarterRoll call! It's the end of October. Tap in and let us know how many opportunities you actually applied to last month.
We're trying a few new things with this newsletter to bring you the most value. Feel free to reply to this email, we'd love your feedback, especially if you want to go into more detail. – Gabby + The SeekPTO Team 🔵✈️ |
The Exit Row
A monthly newsletter for women chasing a big, bold life. Every issue leads with one story, one lesson, and curated resources across travel, lifestyle, career, and every other corner of your dream life.