When you grow up in a city as isolated as Perth, Western Australia, it's not surprising that you get the itch to leave, at least for a while. From the time I graduated from university (just a little while back now ...) I was looking for opportunities to leave Perth for a while and see something of …
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Could I be a digital nomad? Should you? Advice for a reader.
I got a long email from a 19-year-old reader named Dylan this week. It is full of questions about travelling and working as a "digital nomad" - someone who works largely online, and can be anywhere in the world but still able to work. I'm certainly not location-independent in my work yet - most of …
Travelling jobs and back-home careers – my experience with ESL teaching and adult education
A few years back I wrote a post for Vagabondish about Why Travel is Good for Your Resume (you can go ahead and read it ... I'll wait!). I still stand by everything I wrote there 100% and it was that post that prompted a reader named Jasper to write to me with this question: You say that your …