Ranch Jobs Abroad

While ranches and cowboys are often associated with the western United States, it’s definitely not the only area of the world where tough men and women have used their strengths and smarts to make a living off the land. Learning ranching skills abroad offers double bonuses: experiencing a brand new culture AND perfecting skills that could be beneficial in your professional or personal life. 

If you’re looking to make dude ranch employment your profession, then the skills you gain from doing international horse ranch jobs will be a bulls-eye for future employers. Anyone who is studying agriculture, animal science, or large animal veterinary medicine will also benefit greatly from getting hands-on work with a variety of farm animals and ranching techniques (don’t forget the less marketable but equally important benefit of getting to cuddle baby lambs on the job!).

Even if your chosen profession isn’t the life of responding to “Ranch Help Wanted” calls forever, you’ll still benefit from learning practical physical labor and skills, like teamwork and problem solving — these golden skills are applicable to everything. Whether you’re learning to drive cattle with a gaucho, building fences with a jackeroo, or training horses with a vaquero, you will gain a much more heartfelt understanding of a country and culture than you ever could from inside a classroom.