Are you wondering how to quit your job to travel the world? Craving a life of adventure but feel tied down by your 9 to 5? Dreaming of azure skies, exotic locales, and new cultures, but can’t imagine how to afford it all?
This may be the article you’ve been waiting for.
Quitting your job to travel the world might seem like a far-fetched dream, but with the right plan and a dash of courage, it’s more within reach than you think. Yes, there are bills to pay and mouths to feed, but what if you could do that while satisfying your wanderlust?
Intrigued? Read on, as I spill the beans on how to make this audacious dream a reality.
Let me share a little bit about my own journey.
It all began at a crossroads for me, when I was fresh out of a grueling Master’s program, transitioning into the world of technical writing in the tech industry, and just after I met Charles.
As much as earning money was a wonderful change from life as a starving grad student, the corporate life was just as soulless, and life-sucking as I’d heard. And while I didn’t exactly hate my job as a technical writer, writing standard operating procedures and software wikis didn’t exactly feel like fulfilling a life’s dream.
To be honest, I was less than six months into my new career and I was sick of it already.
One day after a particularly frustrating day, and a crowded evening commute home on Calgary’s Light Rail Transit, Charles and I got talking.
We’d dated less than four months at this point, but we hatched a plan to travel the world together during that conversation. I wanted to visit Southeast Asia, and he wanted to see Australia, so we decided to combine our trips and travel to the southern hemisphere for a year.
It would make a more romantic story to say that we quit our jobs on the spot, bought round the world tickets, and took off the next morning, but the reality is that it took us about eight months more to get on that plane.
Money was a huge part of that. No-one was going to pay our way. We saved money for flights, accommodation, and living expenses, and I also had to set enough money aside to pay off my student loans for the year I planned to be gone.
There was also a lot to consider – I had an eight year old kitty, Cosmo, who couldn’t go with us, and we each had apartment leases, plus so, so much more.
20 years later, we have a lot more dialed in. Today, we make our living fully online, but it was a long process,…
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