Whether you are just starting out in your therapy career or have been working for twenty years a short-term travel contract can be a great option for you. One of the best parts of a travel therapy job is the chance it gives you to make more money than you would in a permanent position. The question though is how much is the difference. That’s why over the next 5 weeks we will be doing a 5 five part series on the pay for travel therapists versus a permanent therapy or rehab …

Each start to a new year can be beneficial to your psyche. It can provide a cleansing sensation that wipes away all that was in the previous year and give you a new outlook and a feeling of refreshment. If only for a short period of time, the new year is a great time to assess your current goals, whether it relates to your well being, career or life in general. Now’s the time to revise or at least start thinking about the things you’d like to. Don’t just accept what is going on… And in the words of the late, great Michael Jackson. Make that change.

The next thing you are going to want to think about in planning your travel therapy assignment is your housing options.
First off you need to decide if you are even going to need housing. If you have decided that you are going to work an assignment that is within an hour of your home then you can opt to receive a housing stipend instead of worrying about setting up housing. But if you are going to need housing you basically have two options.
1. Have the travel therapy company find you …

The second thing you need to do in the process of starting your travel rehab and therapy career is determine where you want to work. Just as figuring out why you want to travel will play an important role in a lot of the future decisions you will make as a traveling therapist (regarding your career), so will where you want to go.

Before you start out in your travel therapy career you need to evaluate exactly why you want to travel and what you hope to get out of it.

Do you want to make more money?
Are you trying to gain more experience to start your own practice someday?
Do you want to broaden the kind of patients you work with?
Are you looking for a change of pace?
Do you want to improve your current skills? Be exposed to new ones?
Are you interested in meeting new people?
Intrigued by new places?
Just need an adventure before you settle down?
Need an adventure …

You know who they are, you’ve been annoyed with them at every job you’ve ever had. The boss who doesn’t know up from down, the guy who always gives you a punch in the arm as his way of saying hello, Mr. B O, the gossip queen, the clock watcher, the manipulator and the one who always seems to bring something for lunch that stinks up the whole joint. Yes we’ve all seen some derivative of these and if you’re honest with yourself, you may admit that at one point …