About a year and a half ago I started working for this Danish company. I didn't know what all it would entail, just that I'd be in charge of like 300+ servers instead of the like 8 I was in charge of at my last job. I felt like I was in waaaaay over my head when I started and it took me a couple of months to get things figured out.
What I didn't realize was that I was going to start doing some really cool stuff, not so much the nerdy computer stuff, more the going all over the world for work type stuff. Granted its not like a vacation, so I don't usually have a lot of time to be a tourist in most of these places, but I still get to go there and experience the culture and get the stamps in my passport.