8 Signs That You’d Be Happier As a Digital Nomad

If you read our recent post all about reasons I love being a travel blogger, you’ll know that over 15 years ago, we packed up our stuff and left our regular jobs back in Canada to explore the world while working abroad.

I’m extremely grateful that we’re still on the road and living this life while working remotely.

Before we left, I felt like I was being pulled by some higher power. Every day at work became more laborious, and the more we started thinking about traveling and living abroad full-time, the more things just started to fall into place.

For us, this has been a dream life. We travel and explore new places all the time, we don’t have a fixed office address that we need to clock into every day, and we can choose our own hours and work from anywhere.

But to get to this point, we had to follow the signs that were pointing us in this direction. I can’t be certain, but maybe these signs are the same for you.

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8 Signs You’d Be Happier as a Digital Nomad

Sometimes when you’re making steps in the right direction, life gives you signs to show you the way. For us, the signs were quite clear. Here are 8 signs that you also might just be destined to become a digital nomad.

1. Your Job Isn’t As Fulfilling As You Want it To Be

This is a huge one to me. My job in Canada just wasn’t fulfilling me in any way. I’m a creative person. I like building things. I like writing, taking photos, and creating videos.

My job in a plastic packaging plant in Alberta, Canada simply wasn’t ticking ANY of those boxes and it made me feel trapped.

I would go to work every day and work my ass off and by the end of the week when the weekend finally came, I was completely exhausted. 

Once we started planning for our digital nomad lifestyle, this all changed. Even though I was still working at that soul-crushing job for another 8 months while we saved up enough money to leave, I had a new energy.

Suddenly it was like I was beaming with new ideas and thoughts about what our life could be like. My creativity was sparked again and I was writing down my ideas for where we’d travel, what we’d see, and how we might earn money doing it.

Everything started to fall into place and within 8 months, we were flying to Southeast Asia to start our new…