Check if your company has any overseas positions available and be prepared to pay much of your own way.

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Drivers climbing the greasy pole of motorsport have to pay their own way, and the tricky point comes when your financial backing fails to match up to the budget required of the next step.

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And like that man who came all the way from Japan to Joplin, make sure in your own life that you pay it forward.

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