Here’s a typical experience:
Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2024 3:36 am
I go to a place. I stay there for a few days. I leave. I go to a new place. I stay there for a few days. I leave. I go to a new place. I stay there for a few days. I leave…
Every few days, there’s a new neighborhood/city/province/country, there’s a new hostel/guesthouse/hotel/tent, and every few days there are new friends.
Continually meeting and saying goodbye to new friends is probably c level executive list the hardest part. Even I’ll admit that I’ve had to take breaks from meeting new friends from time to time.
It’s very hard to meet great people, experience great things together, and then abruptly leave… and then regularly repeat this cycle.
It’s like a mini-breakup every three days.
Travel
“I’ll probably never see you again. Have a nice life!”
Unless you have a very strongly defined set of values, this constant maneuvering between relationships will definitely cause you a lot of tension.
I used to joke with my Malaysian girlfriend that I was a full-time boyfriend working under a short-term contract.
Simply put:
There’s virtually no stability in the digital nomadic lifestyle, unless we have a steady job, which, for many of us, is not particularly easy to come by.
But again, if you can find work that is a) fulfilling and b) steady, you’ll always be able to fall back on this bedrock.
But if you really, really like stability, then being a digital nomad is probably not right for you.
2. Do you have anything you can’t leave behind?
I have created a life for myself where I don’t have any entanglements.
I don’t have:
Every few days, there’s a new neighborhood/city/province/country, there’s a new hostel/guesthouse/hotel/tent, and every few days there are new friends.
Continually meeting and saying goodbye to new friends is probably c level executive list the hardest part. Even I’ll admit that I’ve had to take breaks from meeting new friends from time to time.
It’s very hard to meet great people, experience great things together, and then abruptly leave… and then regularly repeat this cycle.
It’s like a mini-breakup every three days.
Travel
“I’ll probably never see you again. Have a nice life!”
Unless you have a very strongly defined set of values, this constant maneuvering between relationships will definitely cause you a lot of tension.
I used to joke with my Malaysian girlfriend that I was a full-time boyfriend working under a short-term contract.
Simply put:
There’s virtually no stability in the digital nomadic lifestyle, unless we have a steady job, which, for many of us, is not particularly easy to come by.
But again, if you can find work that is a) fulfilling and b) steady, you’ll always be able to fall back on this bedrock.
But if you really, really like stability, then being a digital nomad is probably not right for you.
2. Do you have anything you can’t leave behind?
I have created a life for myself where I don’t have any entanglements.
I don’t have: