Like most people, I have a 9-5 job. I start each week with a relatively clear idea with where 40 hours of it will be. There is a certain comfort that comes with knowing what exactly you should be doing and getting a routine pay check along with it.
But of course, this comes at a cost. For most people, they do the work not because they like it but because they get paid for it , which essentially means that they’ll be spending a third of their life on something they’d rather not do.
On the other hand, if you were lucky enough to have found a job you do like, there’s still the case that you’re basically tied up to a place for most of the year. You’re not free to come and go as you please, and you’ll have a month off work in a year to go somewhere, if you’re lucky.
Of course, it’s not all bad, you gotta do what you gotta do, and most people are okay with this. Life is all about trade offs and at the end of the day, having a stable job is not a bad place to be.
For me personally though, working as a migrant means that I have missed on a lot of events as it is. It’s not easy to just fly out whenever you need to if you are tied up to a job. I also have several projects that I know I’d rather be cultivating and spending more time on.
The thing with trading time for money is that your trading life’s most valuable resource, one that you can never buy back.
I think a lot of people stay with their 9-5 job because they cannot see how they can do things any other way. I myself am not certain which steps I must take in order to achieve this goal… but I know that other people have successfully done it, and I would never know if I don’t at least try.
I could stay in a comfortable 9-5 job or I can take a chance on myself and possibly have the future I actually want to have.
Life is too short to keep being complacent, and to achieve big dreams, I know that I have to take a big leap of faith.
This is the start of my journey. One day I know I’ll be a digital nomad.