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When I was 25 years old, I set out to create a mobile lifestyle, to seek out a way to "work" so that I can be anywhere around the world. That quest took me 5 years to fully accomplish...which was well worth the countless moments of despair, doubt and uncertainty.
But just like any goal, once you attain it, you have to figure out how it plays out in your daily life.
Balancing Work and Travel
Don't get me wrong...I'm not complaining about my situation. But I think it's good to notice that there is no freedom that doesn't come with a corresponding level of responsibility. Working while travelling, I'm realizing now more than ever is a balancing act. When there is no boss breathing down your neck, have to set your own priorities and work with very little structure then you have to impose those on yourself.
Scheduling and Timing
One of the most difficult part for me is timing and schedule. When I'm in my home environment, I have a routine and a schedule I can follow. Also, I'm wired to do my best work early in the morning between 8am and noon. After that, my productivity gets a diminishing return. But then, since my partner is located 9 Hours earlier than me (while I'm in Italy), I have to start working at 5pm in order to sync with him.
Resisting to Temptations
While being in Italy, it is a constant fight to get me to sit in front of my desktop. I mean, there are so many amazing things to do and see here...who wants to sit in front of a computer screen for 8 hours when you are perched at the top of Capri Island?
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Conclusion
If you have the desire to reach for a "mobile" lifestyle like I did, realize that their are drawbacks. Everything comes at a cost. When I first pursued it, I didn't realize that I also had to give up on certain things such as having co-workers I meet everyday and a more balanced social life and a regular schedule that allows me to leave work with a clear conscience rather than work being 5 feet away from me 24h a day. It may sound ridiculous but those little things matter once you don't have them anymore.
No matter how much of a good planner we think we are, life always have its own plan awaiting us.
You are right @cryptoctopus I quited my job and I have been living the mobile lifestyle, steemit and other online activities and within this period i have gotten lots of complaints from previous colleagues and friends about not been available, I thought been self employed will come that easy but i really miss alot of things.
I think I’ll realize it when I go to Pakistan in 3 weeks . I was saying how I’ll psot 2 times a day and ty to comment a lot . But then I know it’s not possible because when you’re somewhere else and especially with family , things always come up. Plus Pakistan sucks with electricity . But I’m going to try to enjoy the little moments while I’m there and Steemit can tag along the ride .
I bet you’re having fun, psot more pictures !!
It is very difficult to do post quantities for days, steemit is a hobby where you can entertain or report interesting topics.
greeting from the other continent.
It’s not , for me this is a passion . I am committed to this paltform and always try to provide quaility content in every post
That's the idea, keep it up.
Scheduling and timing has never been an issue for me, but resisting temptations.....oh well!! That's a story of it's own LOL!!
P.S. : The steemauto auto upvote finally worked haha. It just isn't instant that's all. I waited for a few hours for this post and the vote eventually went through (even though it was set to a wait time of zero minutes).
I've had problems with it as well. I used to work for me, but lately, it hasn't worked at all.
One of the first things I realized when I told my wife I'd like to set out on my own for a more mobile life was when she said O great you'll be here all day everyday so you can help with errands and such.
The first thing I realized when planning to set out on my own is that I will need to rent a space so that I can separate work and life because my wife will have a hard time respecting those boundaries.
Actually makes me reconsider setting out on my own and just finding a 9 - 5 job that I can tolerate while still being able to work on the "mobile" projects I want to work on.
Yeah, making work your hobby and hobby your work;)
The co-workers and the 'working environment' are indeed the only things that keep me at my job at the moment. They are a very valuable yet often understimated thing. I'm currently not very active on Steem, since I haven't got the words to describe what I'm gonna do as I'm still thinking about it. But I'm almost certain I'm be doing some very major changes career-wise in the near future.
I like working with people as well. You can find places to sometimes co-work with other nomads, which makes it less lonely. But also sometimes it's distracting if you try to work with too many people at once. You just end up talking and laughing instead :)
good job
wow very nice post and good job
I completely agree with you, my friend, when you are far from your usual life and you travel it is always difficult to plan the rest and work. I did experience the same inconvenience for a long time when I had to go on business from home and I confess to you honestly, it does bring not convenience, but on the other hand we have the opportunity to add new images to the Steemit and your journey through Italy is an excellent example! Thank you @cryptoctopus
@cryptoctopus - Sir having a job, we framed into a schedules & tasks... As you said it's there is a boss who is ready to breathing down our neck... My husband got that experience Sir... Not only the boss, his schedules made by his clients too... But I got a little freedom... It doesn't mean I don't have schedules... But in family environment I got a little free time than a regular job...
When talking about financial freedom, Steemit made that freedom... I love it, but sometimes it's little hard to keep on track... But I'm trying to keep in that track Sir... Because, I'm addicted to Steemit Sir...
+W+
I always love to work in a proper schedule because it engage me in the work and stop me from thinking rubbish things. But it sometimes become difficult when you are out of normal workplace. I like your dedication towards your work, keep us motivating and encouraging us in our difficult times.
@cryptoctopus,
Actually I wish to be a free guy! In current moment I am having a huge stress at my workplace and STEEM and STEEMIT is the place which is deducting my stress level! Specially financial free that's what I am talking about!
I got a boss who is willing to take the last breath of all co-workers under him! So, with STEEM and STEEMIT atleast now I got a chance to build a future! Your article which is full of your experience helped me to build my dream true! Actually I want to build that dream! I will do!
Cheers~
I wished a lifestyle like this, but i definetly dont have the needed discipline.
If had to travel to work, i would only work if i had an specific job to do at that place... Or else i would definetly get distracted with every new thing i saw around me.
I would suck at that.......
Yup, there are but these drawbacks can be minimized with proper and planned time management thing. You can do your work wherever you are in the world in a timely manner! Ah, I also have a wish to free myself from a job slavery! I wish I could achieve my objective this year!
Thank you for this post. How long do plan to stay in italy.. i would love to see more pictures.
there are so many amazing things to do and see here...who wants to sit in front of a computer screen for 8 hours when you are perched at the top of Capri Island?no more schedules work when you are out of home to a travel. your experience is giving a valauble input to discuss this matter. we all hope to stay home, do travels & earn decently. you highlighted negative side of practical situation. impressive article @cryptoctopus
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While I understand that having a mobile lifestyle comes at the cost of co-workers, I imagine that you can meet quite a lot of interesting people with common interests and lifestyles, and if you spend time with them regularly, I think a structured schedule might actually form itself.
Hi @cryptoctopus, I got what you mean. Like I think for most of us here, we dream of having your lifestyle. A life without being tied up to a 9 to 5 job, and a boss whose breathing on your neck every minute. I have been dreaming whole of my life to work from home. Having found Steemit was like the best thing to work my way towards achieving my dream. And sometimes when I got to take leave and sit at home to do my things like doing Steemit, there are so many other things that's just making me distracted from doing what I want to do. So I really understand what you mean. And I am sure when the time has come I will have to make sure that I manage to cope with the time management and meanwhile embrace the moment living on a mobile lifestyle. Stay blessed and Steem On!
I really think that you are badass, balancing your life this way. I do respect that you give some things up, just to make content for Steemit. It looks like you really have something to give in this community and you can find it back in your posts.
I just want to say I really enjoy reading your posts and it is kickass to travel around the world and let everyone see how things are there with amazing pictures ;)
Please keep doing what you are doing right now, your life will be more balanced as you grow, and you will grow.
@shawnvanderveer, This is a very inspirational comment , really i impressed reading your comment. In this any situation, we have to maintain our balanced to survive in our compitition of our life.
We do indeed ;)
Thank you for your good response.
@cryptoctopus, you just described my reality at the moment.
Whatever decision we make, we must learn how to ensure other areas of our life doesn't suffer or pay for it.
I found it very difficult when i first started but i am adjusting gradually to it right now.
what steps did you take to ensure you remain focused and productive?
Be it you work under someone or not, the world surely has a way of balancing itself.
We all decide to live a care free life not depending on a boss, no someone to order us around or having to wake up each morning and not having to answer the call
Yes Sir.We all want to have that expensive trip abroad spend some quality time with our family and friends but still everything comes at a cost.
Great to know you never gave up on your dreams, this post should be tag motivation as it acts as a motivator when you see someone progress in whatever they decided to achieve a long time ago
There is no perfect "life".
I guess it is the grass is always greener syndrome. We think there is something better over "there" only to realize there are challenges one we get to that place also.
The idea of a mobile, freeing life is appealing to many especially those of us tied to the same town, same job, same office. I watched a film on Netflix about a couple who picked up, left Berlin, and traveled North America on a bus. One thing that struck me is they ultimately got to the point where all they wanted to do was settle down.
Travel is great but it is always nice to get back home to your own pillow as they say. Living out of a suitcase can get old after a while.
The balance you mention gets tougher as Steemit becomes a bigger part of my life (and future plans). I am more of an all or none guy which can be very unhealthy. It is something I am working on by I can get tunnel vision to the exclusion of all others.
Thanks for the reminder.
hahaha nice if i say true i think we should have a better shedule for our life and if we are on work we try to do best and should do our duty and must understand our resposiblities to do our job exellent as we can
and other side if we are on travel we should forget our work for a while to enjoy our life and travel because i think we work and earen for make our life more luxury and relaxy and if we dont make ourselves easy on your free time there is no reason to work for oursleves
i like your all journeys and really enjoy always to see when you share with us beautifull photographs and give your reviews on all these best and beautifull places and this photo is shwoing this island as dreamy place..
so 100% enjoy yourslef on you journey and forget every thing about your work in these days @crytoctopus
It is true what you mention about mobile work, because you get away from the social environment and what you have around you is your family, so it is always good to look for balance, what I do is to do sport with friends and not have social relations.
You are totally correct,
Freedom must come with responsibilities, some times these responsibilities makes us want to give up on some certian things or even the freedom itself.
These should be the basis of the decision
You must weigh the draw backs before you choose a life steyle
Thanks for sharing.
Italy is a wonderful place to be in...blogging can wait while you enjoy yourself for a while, hahaha 😁😁Life is too short let's enjoy the better part of it.
The photos are really nice. Love from Nigeria.
I believe when you have total freedom, maintaining a high productivity is a matter of discipline.
This is why I believe having a strong discipline is extremely important if we want to accomplish our goals. Discipline is what makes the difference.
The temptation to do fun stuff will always be there no matter what. Its up to us if we remain productive or surrender to the leisure activities.
Its not easy to work while you are travelling especially you are in beautiful country italy but we can't escape from our responsibilities because "The real freedom of any individual can always be measured by the amount of responsibility which he must assume for his own welfare and security." Enjoy travelling and keep working along.
well good to read this and know some your thought but i think we cannot ignore the both sides of our life we are living on this earth with our seprate thinking and seprate life styles every one think and do in thier own style but i think must do some which our heart say us to see the occasion and point wehre we are stand this time and pick oppurtunity to believe on our sleves and our heart order
hope we alwasy enjoy our work and traveling because boths are the different things and bring some good and different experienc of life
your travel in italy and rome is good and i think you are enjoying it with your own style as you think it better on that spot
It is wonderful when you have something busy with and you are. Insistent at it. Determination and persistence are the keys to sustainable growth.
This is very correct. Even in your freedom, there is always this responsibility to keep your sanity. The responsibility to do things without procrastination. The responsibility to be focused and to plan.
As fun as travel looks, it doesn't mean being idle or being extravagant. You could be working while on a trip too, as you said. Good one there @cryptoctopus.
This is the great initiative to own work and also love to own work . Because of that He is success man of steemit.
I agree with this. But sometimes it can be challenging to work while on a trip. As @cryptoctopus said, he was in Capri Island in Italy. Damn that place is beautiful. How will you work when you know that there is a thousand sights you could see . Kinda difficult! 😊
Really I can imagine how it feel, balancing work on transit, mobile life style is sure interesting and for me more preferable, rather than having that day to day tension of resuming at the office at 8:am
But lots of things are always traded to achieve this.
Nice write up @cryptoctopus
Actually this is the expression of writers and photographers creative thoughts. This is the great quality to impress for their visitors. Day by day @cryptoctopus is growing up and earning more popularity.
I can't imagine that one can fulfil his desire(which looks like impossible)in practical life.
But you did it @cryptoctopus and I must appreciate you on it. Definitely if you do something out of the box then you have to sacrifice some personal things.
Great share Sir, keep it up and stay blessed!
Desires carefully following with all amount of focus can be fullfilled which he did. Now, according to @cryptoctopus which I totally agree..
A cost of action that must be paid to reach your desire or goal and a cost that must be paid for even operating on accomplished goal.
@Cryptoctopus you lesson is well shared and received by me. Thanks for sharing.
having co-workers might be the best thing that gives tradition works.
But im not ready to change my life for that
Great post. I say that all depends on what kind of person you are. I just hate regular jobs. Everything is better than doing some work just to pay the bills. For me most important think is to DO WHAT YOU LOVE. Period.
Your work is about your travel experience, it makes it much easier for you. I bet you love it and you enjoy it.
and in the end it was worth all that effort @cryptoctopus
Really i liked your great shots..i learned about Pompeii which it wasn’t irrelevant, it was a huge shock to the Roman world when it was destroyed.
Pompeii was in an area that Rome’s rich and famous built their holiday homes. It was to Rome what the Hamptons are to New York.
It was like someone wiped out Bridgehampton and Montauk, and sent a cloud of ash drifting over Fire Island. Not to mention it took out several naval ships in the vicinity, one of which had the Roman equvilant of John McCain (or Joe Biden) on board. In that scenario everyone in New York would be appalled by the news. Partially because they were horrified by the loss of life, partially because they were wondering how much the value of their second home had been damaged.
the work accompanied by effort will lead you towards the reward @cryptoctopus
At times that your stress levels are on an all time high, take the time off. Seize the opportunity of having a well deserved vacation. You will be relaxed, refreshed and will have the much needed energy to conquer the world. A bit exaggerated? Fine, you will have that new perspective when reviewing those work piles you left behind. Lol.
You are so right. Right now you have succeeded in your plan. Sometimes things we leave behind Do matter. I guess everything has to do with balance. Not to leave much behind.
Thanks again for a nice article
In order to become free and happy, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always easy to bring such a victim. It all depends on the person of his character. Thank you. Great post for reflection.
Having your kind of lifestyle means you will have to give up on some of the growing experiences and even friends you had. Nice post!
Yes of course, the little things you do will certainly be missed when the bigger things come to play!
A very scary house I can not afford the highlands but the sea view is very beautiful I wish I had a house like this one day
Every job has its own difficulties. It is important to do business with pleasure and I think you enjoy your job. Thank you for sharing your opinion with us.
I prefer working in one place without having to travel too much - I might find it fun and educating to fly to a conference once a year in the USA or something like that but I do find that for me, and I guess for most people - it's much more normal to be in one constant place - what with family and friends that will really miss you (and vice versa) when you are away.
I know that there are people who like travelling, they see new places and meet new traditions and they really need this excitement to spice their everyday life, and it's totally legitimate.
I guess there is a scale to this question - some prefer being stationary and some prefer travelling, fortunately - we can always travel on trips - there are some cheap options and fulfill that need when it arises.
Dreamy. I do not know if it 's nice to live there. it looks a bit scary. If I left my lover I guess I was there to commit suicide haha :)
:) It must be hard to work while traveling ..
there is not any job easier already! Most people I might think you won you from where you sit. I'm sure you've come a long way to come to this level!
it is difficult but always successful. I work as well as I can. I am striving to produce quality content. I'm not sleeping ... I did not get much benefit. maybe one day, someone will notice! anyway ... life conditions are hard in the country where I live. I try not to think too much. Thank you for your lovely and sincere expression. I'm sorry for my bad english
Thank you @Cryptoctopus for sharing. Like you've said, you are not complaining. I believe you shared this so that those of us seeking or desiring some kind of "out of this world" kind of lifestyle and exceptional freedom may know that such a life has its cost.
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I always look forward to your articles because it usually have valuable lessons to get from it.
Thanks for always sharing valuable contents.
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Determination and persistence are the keys to sustainable growth. As rotein can not be maintained in a travel because you are entered in a new environment that is completly change from you environment
I also faced smae situation because of the environment although i have no work but a morning walk and doing exercise can not be done on a travel witth me
Thanks for sharing your experience of travel and doing work with in travel keep it up i wish you all the best
enjoy your life with a great travel hope you ahve a good day stay blessed
5 years its a long time to pursue something, but you did well, whatever you did, actually that a hard thing, for pursuing something and you just kick out all your other social life, Yor are totally right, but i think when you have a whale of a responsibility like steemit, than you have to be good in manage all your schedules, as you mentioned you paid a cost for getting through all of this, but once you relize how much now people love your work, admire your work, when ever you contribute in the steemit its worth for us, and i think that the thing which balances all the other pressure, which you just set aside, now you are better one, who know to handle it.
Keep sharing such amazing traveling, that inspires us, encourage us, and the most happening thing it built a community which is forever.
Thanks a lot #Cryptoctopus you are doing well job...
Blessed you...
Steem On...
not for months or even years of holidays, both disrupts your mental health and reduces your work efficiency in a serious manner. Travel away from everyday routines and problems will allow you to return to work with a better energy. You can stay alone with yourself or with your loved ones, and you can collect your private life that you have neglected. You have to decide how much communication you will have with the office. Dilerseniz can only reply at certain times of the day during the holiday by e-mail, you can talk to your boss or your colleagues.
Remember, working life is taking up a large part of our life. Working hard by making concessions to private life does not guarantee the comfort of your future. But the small savings you will make during this period will make you comfortable in your retirement.
thank you for reminding this!!
The quest took you 5 years!!! That's the price you pay for such a big achievement. It takes patience and self determination to attain that. And scheduling and timing is key to help push you through that journey. This I have experience in as lots of my work is on a computer in designing different projects. I have to always have great timing since no one is around to push me. And clients always need their work on time. This is where discipline in calculating your time now come in.
Am glad you got successful in your journey. I personally I haven't reached where I want to be yet.. And your 5 year wait has inspired me to continue fighting hard till i get there.
Thanks for reminding us of patience @cryptoctopus
wow very excellent post sir @cryptoctopus
