Greetings!

I figured I would take a little time today to get you all caught up to speed as to how this blog came about. I’ll try to keep this as concise as possible…

First, as you can probably guess, I want to do a lot of traveling around the globe. And as I alluded to in my previous post, my first destination of choice is Australia, although there are many others. Ever since I was little, I’ve always had that bit of wanderlust. I’ve met plenty of people from all over the world, competed in an international sporting event, have a bachelor’s degree in international business, and yet I somehow have only gone out of the country once, and that was to Toronto (not very far outside the U.S., actually, so that doesn’t really count).

Over the years that itch to move about and see the world keeps getting stronger and stronger. I have no regrets over how I have spent the first 10 years of my adult life. Most people who study international business do a semester or two studying abroad. I was on the college’s tennis team and didn’t want to miss out on any of that experience, and I made the right choice. Overall, I’ve done some cool things and met some amazing people during this time. I wouldn’t change a thing.

Second, I recently resigned from my job that I had been at for the past five years (it’s now been a week since I left), and I am taking a little time off to reevaluate where I want to go from here. I won’t to go into all the details. There were a lot of things I liked about the job. It involved one of my bigger passions, I got to travel a good bit around the country to places I probably never would’ve gone to otherwise, and I got to know a lot of great people. What’s so bad about that? Nothing, I’m very grateful for having had that opportunity.

I am also grateful that I finally, after mulling this over for a long time, decided to get out. It was time. I was burnt out (something that happens to people all too frequently in that profession, and many others for that matter) and was really struggling to stay motivated. Long hours and low pay, among other frustrations, got to me. It isn’t even so much the pay. I think if it were a six-figure job I would probably feel the same way. It just wasn’t the right lifestyle for me, not enough balance. I look at where I was headed five, 10, 20 years down the road, and at the people who were already there, and it scared the hell out of me.

For the past few years, I’ve been thinking of ways in which I could work for myself. There was a big craze in real estate and I grabbed every bit of info that I could find on the subject before realizing that it wasn’t really for me. Now what?

If I could pin point the two things that helped me advance in my career it was writing and having some sort of uncanny ability with computers and the internet. Hmmm… why didn’t I think about that before????

Well, now I’m here at a bit of a crossroads. I gave about five weeks notice when I resigned (I’m such a good employee!) and knew this nomad project was something I wanted to work on, although I kept that from most people unless I already knew they were like-minded. I think people were a bit surprised about how calmly I told them that I had no idea what I’d be doing after I left and that I didn’t have another job in the works. I know it was the right decision even though the prospect of not having an income at the moment does scare me a bit from time to time.

So I decided back when I resigned that, while I would still look for a new job, I was going to journal about how I was going about my journey to follow my dream of working and traveling on my own (i.e. being a nomad, if you will, or what The 4-Hour Workweek author Tim Ferriss calls, the “new rich”).

I’d read other stories and how-to guides of people that had successfully gone down this path before, such as the Working Nomad Ebook, and it really excited me! This is what I’ve been looking for all along and I could totally see myself doing this as well! Then I thought, I’ll also journal about my path, except instead of telling my story at the end, I would detail all the emotions, triumphs and bumps along the road as I’m doing it, how unique!?!

Then after searching some more, I realized there are already people who are/have done that as well. AGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh well, I’m doing it anyway!!! I am learning a great deal and gathering tons of inspiration from these people, although I feel that each one of us have our own unique perspectives and experiences that I think anyone looking for guidance along this avenue can benefit from all of it.

Full steam ahead…