It takes a while to come to terms with the idea of quitting your job and leaving on a trip. Once I knew I HAD to take this trip, the very next thought I had was “Great-I can leave. How do I come back?”
What follows is what I’ve learned from both Allison and my own experiences. These are all the things to consider and tips we learned on how to come home from a year living and traveling abroad.
All of us have been impacted by the Coronavirus to different degrees leaving us with a lot of uncertainty. The one thing we are certain about though, is that all of us are stuck inside. While binging Netflix and scrolling TikTok is not a bad way to spend your days, what if you could spend that time making money instead?
Read MoreQuitting our jobs to travel in 2015 was just a quick route to live a temporary life of adventure. However, on the road we continuously had to monitor our budget and always had the looming thought of needing to return back to the states to work. After depleting our $60,000 travel fund it was all over with one flight back to Chicago… or was it?
Read MoreCongrats! You’re quitting your job to go travel. Which is awesome. We’ll take you through 4 ways to make that possible (and hint - not all of them are unpaid!)
Read MoreAre you tired of hearing travel bloggers, travel vloggers, miscellaneous travel people tell you on travel blogs, travel vlogs, and travel stuff about how you can make travel content online to make money? Well, we are too because for the most part… it’s complete bullshit.
Read MoreIf you want to have a better life of travel, our tip for you is to turn your full-time salary employee position into a freelance or consulting gig. I know it’s shocking that there are other ways to travel and work without just being an Instagram influencer. Becoming a freelancer in a field you are familiar with is a great and relatively easy way to work full-time while traveling.
Read MoreAirbnb has been growing like crazy which means there are tons of options for you to generate income if you own almost any type of space. Having trouble thinking about what you’ve got to rent out? How about a flat piece of asphalt? In Albuquerque, New Mexico, we used Airbnb to find a driveway to park our RV on that we had driven across the United States in.
Read MoreThe main reason we want to share our story becoming a digital nomad is to show that "overnight success" is only perception and that in almost most cases takes several years to accomplish. I remember looking at other people online thinking they were lucky. What I didn't know was their full story. Here's ours.
Read MoreOne exciting aspect of being able to work and travel is meeting the other people who do the same work as you! We sat down with Louise from Solopreneur Sidekick to talk about how we have been able to make money while traveling and some of the ideas we have for you to join in the fun!
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