Let me just quote this post, it's a classic post in my opinion:
I feel like going back on travelling (in the americas). I cant live in a city where i need to see more than 5000 women to see one that i like. Where the weather just sucks 98% of the time. Where young people dont like each other, its like we want to kill each other.
The other half of me wants to work, save money, plan carefully my next move for a good job (maybe Canada, maybe middle east, maybe Africa, maybe Asia, etc). Because even though im way happier when im travelling, i find myself lacking a sense of responsibility when travelling and i feel the need to be making money and increasing my finances.
I congratulate you guys that were able to travel and make money online. For real.
Quote: (12-05-2011 05:36 PM)xsplat Wrote:
You can travel broke, and be working for a long term wealthy future, if you are willing to gamble that your talents will pay off in the long run.
I'm a terrible entrepreneur, with failures stacked upon failures, who nonetheless always had unreasonable confidence that I was actually a brilliant ideas man predestined to wealth. I lived hand to mouth for years, with occasional bouts of great income, before moving to SE Asia, where I again mostly lived hand to mouth. However in Asia you can live on very little, so being poor doesn't mean you need to get a real job. You can still keep plugging away with irrationally self confidence on your various projects.
And if you do that, eventually you'll stumble upon a winning formula. And even if you are not yet wise enough to know to focus on that forumula, time and more failures will teach you focus.
And an entrepreneur can make more than a wage earner.
Life as a permanent traveller can be more fun, adventurous, less stressful, and yield more sexual rewards than a life aimed at securely securing resources. You risk poverty and live in poverty year after decade. But it may turn out that those decades were a training that you can't get in any school, and you'll eventually find a venture that quickly stocks your safe with bullion.
I feel like going back on travelling (in the americas). I cant live in a city where i need to see more than 5000 women to see one that i like. Where the weather just sucks 98% of the time. Where young people dont like each other, its like we want to kill each other.
The other half of me wants to work, save money, plan carefully my next move for a good job (maybe Canada, maybe middle east, maybe Africa, maybe Asia, etc). Because even though im way happier when im travelling, i find myself lacking a sense of responsibility when travelling and i feel the need to be making money and increasing my finances.
I congratulate you guys that were able to travel and make money online. For real.