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Check out workaway online. It's a sort of volunteer site and there are all sorts of communities on there. If you can get to them, you can usually stay for free and get fed in return for agreed work. Two of my friends have been staying working at a hostel in Thailand and having a ball for the last eight months
 
Medical/Human Services fields are usually hiring, if you like helping people and can be around them comfortably. Maybe get a CNA. Then later work up to an LPN or RN in nursing. Maybe set up an online Ebay store. My mother did pretty well on Ebay. She sold antiques and American clothes/jewelry to people in other countries. My brother would go to Target, to the clearance aisle. Buy closeout items there, then turn around and sell the new items for just under full retail on Ebay.
 
Does anyone have any? I've been looking all over with no luck. I have hardly any money and no friends o...

What skills do you have?
I appreciate the whimsy of falsifying resumes and going to other countries, but that can lead to pain and disappointment.
What type of jobs/education have you had?
 
You can start doing freelance work online on sites like odesk.com. Also, living in foreign country will reduce your living cost by a lot, and get you away.

Learning another language to translate is very positive step!

Depending on your situations...maybe consider an underground network to get you out, and set-up. Basically to disappear, and start all over.
 
Re: military:

I found a lot of masculine-only societies... actually aren't so masculine-only, once you learn to blend in.

Act as one of the guys. Accept their style of reasoning & their directives. Learn from them as teachers, not as a competition.

Follow the style of talk & non-verbal language & sense of humor & body postures, even with details conveying submission... in details, not invitations and not sexualized.

Fill in the gaps, consideration of possibilities; come to be appreciated as a thinker & fast doer & a person that isn't in the way, instead cooperates in the style they're familiar with & understand.

Hang around if you need time to observe. Figure the subtleties. Figure points of access & informational needs they may not be covering.

Messengering & being a reliable courier & observer may be a good start. People need extra eyes almost everywhere, regardless of who they are and who they're working for. Don't judge, don't gossip, don't pry, learn to figure hierarchies, abide by them until you can find a comfortable spot that would work for -you- too.

Be courteous. Courtesy & honesty are hard to turn down flat out. Not figuring who might be an asset may be a fault of THEIR reasoning, and missing out a chance that's easier to grab, at the first start.

Most societies that are very segregated by gender /can/ be joined, if one's insistent enough but not a pain in the ass about it, and respecting of structures that've been in place for ages... while using them to own advantage, but not at the expense of others, as it's going to be well being of a pack preceeding that of the individual, unless that individual is a key-log and irreplacable in those people's eyes. Aka: Use the system, don't use the people.

All I'm saying, don't be turned down by official and claimed rules. If you've got the smarts & the skills & willingness to learn and improve and overcome deficits? You can be darned valuable, and not recognizing valuable is a loss.

Another thing: I'd look for less 'established' units associated with those well established. Transfers happen fairly often, it's a chance to get the hell away if the starting point is less than favorable after you've gotten through the basic boot camp and got something to start with and build on, and closer to having official references, or at least friends in the right spaces in case you need that sort of protection.

There's plenty of places world wide that welcome support forces who can or will be active combatants, if that's your call, as a gradual progress and / or by necessity.

Which is another entrance point.

Re: 'gypsy communities' - ignoring the G slur - you'd have to act by their standards, and not fetishize the communities. Some *are* accepting, unless you count those descendants of clan royalties families, where acknowledging them as royals within traditions is owed and not indulging on their lives and businesses is a thing of honor one cannot cross, only bow to. (Internationally.)

Family code of honor is a must. So are several languages; most Romani people, even where 'illiterate', are fluent in several languages & cultures, trans-national, often traveling for business and by being forced to, and not taking well to being fetishized by outsiders. There *are* things as honorable adoption within the cultures, for some of Romani ethnicities. But they take time, to actually live with the cultures, by their laws.

Also, which Arabic are you learning, out of curiosity? ;) Standard + Egyptian + Lybian works pretty well as far as communication is concerned, for acceptabiltiy across the world, and having solid formal even where colloquial up. They're a good match to have, regional & formal, and regional & informal but with enough formalities mingled in one gets by through administrative. Eg Arabic is particularly useful for reading the news, Lybian is useful for medical needs quite a lot, same with getting accross paperwork, standard demonstrating you're one of the people / sympathetic to cultures / seeing things from their viewpoint / working on it, and again, respectful person.
 
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It took an investigative journalist to work out that his doctorate was bought from Russia.

AFAIK that route of getting scholarships & degrees has been possible since at least late 70s forward, and is still in effect today, at least in certain circles. Multinational credentials help greatly. So does political orientation if one's so inclined, or at least disinclined to openly disagree, and thoroughly mind own shit while studying.

Edited to add to @Skitzii: You don't have to disappear in another country. The one you're a citizen of? May be the best cover you need. Just learn of sides of it you've been avoiding, and learn how to stay out of trouble. Shadow where not illegal. Joining in collective efforts without being a thorn in the eye. Active & unseen. The tallest shadows may come from the tallest lights.
 
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most of my skills are in the entertainment industry..

Latin American is mostly inexpensive to live (at least once you're there to find local priced apartments depending on country.) Some will give you temporary residency - others you need to leave every 3-6 months to renew Visa. All depends on country. I can give you my knowledge, and experience if interested.
 
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