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Not 100% for me, but probably 50% of the time on the road and in hotels.
I used these years to save as much as I could before changing to a office role.

It was amazing as a young man, getting to see the world and being paid to do it, but all the things people envy about travel gets incredibly boring fast.
Lounge access, hotel upgrades, nice rental cars…. Once you’ve done it 10 times, it’s just another day at work.

Hotel breakfast will never be something I look forward to again, and that actually makes me a bit sad as it used to be the highlight of vacations.

My advice: if you’re young, save as much as you can as this lifestyle matches poorly with a partner and children. You will be happy you did when you get tired of missing all birthdays and events and swap to anormal hours with (often) less pay.

Otherwise: enjoy it! Traveling us fun, but make sure to set up some «you-time» where you explore and enjoy where you are. Try local food and turn off the brain for a few hours, so your only memory won’t be the office building you visited

1. i was very dissatisfied with the amount of lifetime my job in the US was taking from me with so little in return, so when i came across an ad for English teaching that advertised half my hours double my pay i applied, when i was offered the job right away, i accepted, made a bunch of money for 3 years, had savings and plenty of breathing room, invested most of my savings.

2. with breathing room, i thought about what i wanted next and how much it cost:

i wanted to never work again unless i wanted to, basically retirement. I had traveled a bit and realized that with 200 countries, i could literally choose my cost of living and cost of retirement. i picked Thailand to start my retirement since i had visited before and knew the costs. i needed $250 USD/month to start($100 month for a hostel, $150 for food and beer).

i had nearly that coming in from investments, so i signed up for a conversational English speaking app and doubled my income to about $500 per month by chatting 5 hours a week. i used the extra money for private places, extra food and beer, renting a moped, museums, etc.

i traveled for a year working up to 5 hours a week, received an offer to open my own school in China, went back and saved money for two years until i had plenty of passive income to lived abroad indefinitely(USD 500+/month), and here i sit 8 years later, on the way to jeju south Korea after a month in Mongolia, Japan next week.

advice: make a change sooner rather than later, time is finite.

...sooo basically the FAQ in the travel community, hahaha.

Not me, but I work with people who do (or could do) that.

To cut it short, in my field, software development, there are a lot of consultant companies which enlist regular SW engineers and basically rent them to other companies looking for (mostly) temporary help in their projects.

These consultant companies have lots of connections and I would imagine would be more likely to find you remote only gigs than through regular job channels. At least my company requires some weekly office presence for the permanent employees, but basically has no enforced requirements for the temporary consultants.

I guess it depends also, do you already have a skillset, or are you going to choose a trade based on the remote work opportunities?

I found it on LinkedIn. The position I filled turned up dry for three months. Then they expanded the search to the whole European union. I negotiated to keep working remote from the EU.

Acquire a very niche skillset and look for jobs in a small market.

Sounds like they would charge you admission instead of paying you for that job.

I've got some friends who work in corporate insurance, they get shipped all over the world, though still have to go to the office a couple of times a week when not away somewhere

I'm a software engineer and you can find yourself sent abroad for conferences or to do workshops with other teams in other offices (if you work for an international company). Though they're being a bit more pushy about getting people in the offices recently, so once again, not going to be necessarily 100% remote in that scenario (though some places manage to make it work)

Golf. Or work somewhere that puts plastic on things.

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