Create your own Digital Nomad Lifestyle - Here is mine! |
| Written by Richard Vader |
| Tuesday, 02 June 2009 15:57 |
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As a Digital Nomad you can create the lifestyle you want. Funny enough, before I became a Digital Nomad, I was actually already living the lifestyle I wanted, so in that perspective nothing has changed much for me. But having that said... the skills I have now as a Digital Nomad makes lifestyle design just a lot more easier! I always wanted to travel and explore the world. Enjoying adventure trips and doing outdoor activities while living my ideal life. When I started out, I wasn't a Digital Nomad. In my twenties, I got certified as a PADI Divemaster and PADI Open Water Scuba Diving Instructor and I had experience with leading groups on adventure trips. Guiding, teaching, and tour managing was my trade and I worked my way up in the travel and diving industries. It is easy to travel and to work in the travel industry, but it doesn't make you a lot of money. Much later on my road I discovered the possibilities of making money online, and specialised myself in Internet marketing. I am also able to work as web developer and search engine optimization consultant. So in terms of finding work, or working while traveling I have enough options to choose from. While I enjoyed all the jobs I have done in the past, I feel that being an Internet Marketer gives me the absolute freedom, as long as I am connected with the Internet ;-) One interesting thing that I have learned over time is that traveling for too long gets me saturated with experiences, and I finally loose the excitement of it all. It is like everything is getting too normal. The solution for me is easy; I just need breaks between my travels, which are also great to give my mind the time to give all the experiences a place in my head. I needed one of those breaks when I was in Thailand in 2001. I was having a great journey on a sail-yacht, sailing from Australia to Europe. For some unexplainable reason at that time, I felt like I had to bail-out during the trip. First I thought that I had fallen in love with Thailand at first sight. Much later I discovered that I was just saturated with experiences and that the break I needed coincidentally happened while sailing in Thailand's waters. Before boarding the yacht, I had been living and working in the Caribbean and done several trips in Europe and South America. I was living a dream, but somehow still missing something... In Thailand, I tried to connect with my soul and figured that I was actually missing a base called home. A home where I could go back to when I needed a break. Then I looked at it another way: I also could choose to live in an amazing exotic country with pristine nature, beautiful national parks, white sand beaches, tropical Islands, and stunning mountain areas and from there launch my travels and adventure trips. And that is what I did! I made Thailand my base and my new home. Now I have both my home and work sorted out. Being a Digital Nomad, I can work from home, I can work remotely at any other destination, I can work while traveling, I can travel to interesting places for leisure and I can enjoy all the outdoor activities I like to do. Life is a lot more fun when you are in control of it and this style matches perfectly with my needs. |
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