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 Halloween Reader, 🎃 In case this is your first Snippet: every Sunday, paid SeekPTO members get the full Drop with all 15 new Paid Travel Opportunities, direct application links, our PTO tip of the week, and more. This free Snippet gives you our weekly story and a taste of what's inside. Before we get into this week's drop, a quick story that might sound familiar if you grew up with a very specific career script: Picture a conference room. Fluorescent lights, a whiteboard covered in acronyms, a stack of engineering specs with my name stamped on the cover page. First-gen kid, classic script: become a doctor, a lawyer, or an engineer. Anything else and you're letting the whole family down. I picked engineer. Checked the box. Sat in that conference room for years, polishing other people's bridges while a completely different map lived rent free in my head. The tense part came on a random Tuesday, staring at a spreadsheet of load calculations, when I finally admitted the thing I'd been avoiding. I didn't want this life, no matter how good I was getting at it. So I told my parents I wanted to get paid to travel the world instead. Reader, that sentence does not land well at Thanksgiving! My mother's fork stopped mid-air like I'd just announced I was joining the circus. The fear and the right decision can sit in the same chair at the same dinner table. I quit the engineering job anyway. No safety net, no five year plan. Just a half-built idea and a spreadsheet of scholarships and grants I'd been collecting for fun. That spreadsheet became SeekPTO Sunday, the actual email you're reading right now 🥂. The safe path someone mapped out for you and the funded opportunity pulling at you can both feel true at the same time. Chase the one that scares you more. I still think about that conference room. The whiteboard, the specs with my name stamped on top, usually right as I'm hitting send on this newsletter from an airport that spreadsheet paid for. Chase the wildest option on the list. It might end up paying for everything. This week, we found 15 new ways you can be paid to travel ✈️Fellowships, scholarships, remote roles, sweepstakes, grants, residencies: if it pays or covers your way to go somewhere, we're hunting it down and dropping it in your inbox every single Sunday. Only for our paid members of SeekPTO. But here's your Sunday Snippet, the free preview of what paid members are getting in full today: Free Leadership Fellowship With Two Funded Trips to Colombia
Cohort programming and the Summit are fully funded, with no application fee. Monthly virtual sessions run January through June, then four days in person at the Fortis Summit in Medellín in June 2027. 🔵✈️ Free Sweepstakes for Trip to Minnesota & $20,000 in Tech Gear
Grand prize ARV $30,000: round trip flights for two, two hotel nights, a two minute in store speedrun worth up to $20,000, and a $7,000 tax gross up check. No purchase necessary. 🔵✈️ Full Tuition Plus CHF 13,500 a Semester for a Master's in Switzerland
CHF 13,500 per semester for living and study costs plus a full tuition waiver for the whole Master's program. About 60 scholarships are awarded for 2027/28. 🔵✈️ These 3 opportunities alone are worth checking out, and they're a fraction of what's in today's full Drop. Upgrade to get every link, every week.
P.S. If you've ever sent something messy that led somewhere good, hit reply and tell me about it. I read every one. – 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.