Balance and Travel Fatigue When Remote Working

if you've traveled for an extended period of time like a trip of maybe six months you know that after around two months you kind of get bored not bored in the sense of the place but you kind of get overwhelmed by the amount of dopamine you're getting from new places maybe you have a couple of nights where you get a bit drunk in the hostel or you start to spend the days a bit hungover not really doing anything not motivated to go out and explore you also if you're on an extended trip you don't really have anywhere you need to be especially if you book things last minute you haven't planned out your entire trip and so travel fatigue is just a slow decline in motivation to actually do anything this is where remote work will come in if you're working 20 hours a week or more you have a really good split between the time that you're actually traveling and the time that you're out exploring and doing both back to back especially if you're not working a job which takes up too much of your time that you can't travel or too much of the day so you can't explore the two work really well together this is what i think is one of the best ways that you can live is working while you're traveling because you have a proportion of the week that is available to go out and explore and you have a proportion of the week where you're doing focused valuable work it's quite intellectually stimulating [Music] you're earning money while you travel so it's paying for your trip every time you do it and you don't get this travel fatigue situation you don't get bored of traveling because most of the week or proportion of the week you're spending it sat there probably on a computer getting valuable work done and paying for the rest of the trip so then the time that you're not working you're not likely to just sit in the hostel and do nothing you're probably going to go out and explore because you have less time than an indefinite empty agenda you know that maybe the next day or the day after that you have to work it also cuts the number of days where you are able to move from place to place so you maybe have to be a little bit more selective with okay i'm going to travel on a tuesday i'm going to move places on a tuesday i'm working wednesday thursday but the balance between the two is what's most important is you don't get travel fatigue you don't sit there in the hostel all day you can if you want to but i don't think you want to right you're paying for your trip you have a smaller amount of time to explore so you try and pack more in and then you have these hours during the week where you're actually getting valuable things done you don't just switch off completely start to lose your skills you're you're building them as you're going around says a little bit about balance and travel fatigue i've written a little guide on remote working uh it's free you can check it out in the description just talks about why you'd want to do this what to look for in a job a couple of recommendations for platforms so you can find one i think it's the best way to live so if i can help more people do it amazing