Are you trying to decide if you should quit your job to travel long-term, or find a way to take cool trips without sacrificing a location-based career?
Do you have incurable wanderlust?
This is where "vacation hacking" comes in.
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Exactly How a Work + Travel Lifestyle Changed My Life
A few years ago, I didn't know what a work + travel lifestyle was. I didn't know that there were really cool opportunities all over the world that allowed to you work in exchange for travel, work while you travel, or even move abroad.
I had never considered it.
Why? I thought you had to work-work-work-save and then travel and then go back and do the cycle all over again. Rinse and repeat.
Never did I ever think I would land multiple international travel jobs in Europe and Asia that would allow me to see the world in an entirely new way, make new friends, meet people from all over the world, and have the time of my life.
Here's a timeline of exactly how I went from dreaming of traveling to traveling for my job over the past couple of years:
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Let's be real: the in order to survive in the modern world, you need to be making money. Making money comes from working, but there are alternative ways to get paid and/or cover costs compared to the whole corporate grind.
However, some people have it backwards: they think that in order to travel, you must save-save-save at a boring job - maybe even for years - in order to take that dream trip, and then come back home and do it all over again.
There's nothing wrong with that, though you can find jobs all over the world that pay you to travel instead.
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The Quick 6-Step List For What You Need To Do, To Live a Work + Travel Lifestyle
If you want to travel more, then you must get out there and do it: travel. It's not as easy as it sounds, though. Timing, planning, and getting through those mental blocks often get in your way until you just put it off, again and again, until next year.
Then the cycle repeats and you see that one kid from high school on Instagram who has this really cool travel job and all their pictures give you serious FOMO...and then you realize that if they can do it, so can you!
Okay. Here's the quick reference list for what you need to do, to travel more by living a work + travel lifestyle: