https://piped.video/watch?v=V-yO1DcdUFQ

I’m one of those who work 5 days a week to earn a living. We have our vacation days to enjoy whatever we want to do in life, but we still need to go back to work because people like me will struggle in life if we lose our job.

So I’m curious how some people like the guy in the video can travel around the world for almost a year without working. There are also other vloggers out there who left home to go on a travel and they are still young. Do they already have savings enough to support until they retire?

  • @bstix
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    41 year ago

    Great question. It is impossible for anyone living paycheck to paycheck. Hell, everything outside the hamster wheel is impossible in that case, so first thing is to make a savings account and a budget that allows you to put any amount into savings. If that is not possible, you seriously need to find another job or at least ask for raise. Otherwise you’re wasting your life making money for someone else.

    It doesn’t necessarily cost a lot to travel for a long time, but it does require a return ticket and a way to cover the cost of starting a new life when you return. Depending on how easy it is to get a job on return you’ll need savings to do that. I noticed that the backpackers I’ve met have all ended up in larger cities where jobs are easy to get. Even if it’s only temporarily that is a good plan. Just be careful to always keep a surplus so you can advance out of fast food jobs later on.

    Anyway that’s my suggestion. Plan and enable the return and you’re good to go. All you need then is to save up as much as you’re willing to spend on your travel.

    Some people are able to do it with a whole family and that requires a whole other situation in which you should have a job as you travel. I know a pair who managed to it by landing a hotel review service. Their job was basically to take pictures and make descriptions of hotels worldwide. Unfortunately that is more of a job than leisure and it’s hard to get that kind of job. Some of the YouTubers are probably doing something like that.

    Being a travel guide is also a really good way to experience different places while working, though it’s badly paid and less free. It allows to see some of the more popular tourist locations.

    If you have children in school ages it requires a lot more effort and a job and location that is more fixed, but that is also an option if you can find it. Large companies might want a local representative which could be a pretty neat job. Most countries have school programs for international visitors. Much research is required.

    I once met a guy from England who had his whole family along, while he was teaching English on a small unknown island in the Pacific Ocean for a few years. I have no idea of how he got that job, but that’s also way to see more of the world, though it’s more of an immigration than travelling. I think it shows that you don’t have to keep running in a local hamster wheel. There are hamster wheels in other places too. :)