Tim Ferriss was a client of mine for a while and his whole 4 hour work week is just marketing bullshit. He spends 4 hours a day alone whining up and down the chain of command to anyone he hires trying to get out of scope work for free. I used to respect the dude, but after a few years working with him, 99.9% of what he says and peddles is straight bullshit.
I work remote and make pretty great money, but between the 9-5 and side businesses, I work about 50-60 hours a week while traveling and haven't met anyone at a high-end level that puts in much less time, if not more.
Tim Ferriss was a client of mine for a while and his whole 4 hour work week is just marketing bullshit. He spends 4 hours a day alone whining up and down the chain of command to anyone he hires trying to get out of scope work for free. I used to respect the dude, but after a few years working with him, 99.9% of what he says and peddles is straight bullshit.
I work remote and make pretty great money, but between the 9-5 and side businesses, I work about 50-60 hours a week while traveling and haven't met anyone at a high-end level that puts in much less time, if not more.
I live the lifestyle you're talking about.
What would you like to know?
I think the question everyone has is, where does the money come from.
Back to my Banff days my gf and I ran into many 'world-trotting backpackers". Some of them were legit and would camp in mamny places and try to do odd jobs for money but most were posers with a backstop provided by their parents. The worst of that bunch were two australian chicks trying hard to look like they were roughing it. They were at the same youth hostel we were at. One morning I'm waiting for my gf and these two posers are using the phone to call long distance and they pull platinum AmEx cards -- which at that time had $50,000/month limits IIRC.
Tim Ferriss was a client of mine for a while and his whole 4 hour work week is just marketing bullshit. He spends 4 hours a day alone whining up and down the chain of command to anyone he hires trying to get out of scope work for free. I used to respect the dude, but after a few years working with him, 99.9% of what he says and peddles is straight bullshit.
I work remote and make pretty great money, but between the 9-5 and side businesses, I work about 50-60 hours a week while traveling and haven't met anyone at a high-end level that puts in much less time, if not more.
You're right on with your observation. The VAST majority of "digital nomads" are broke and will never make it. They spend all their money and go back home in 6-12 months.
My money comes from my website (outdoors website - hiking, camping, etc).
I spent 3 years busting my ass to build the site and grow the revenue/profit (this was in addition to having a full time job). In 2 years I was making more from my site than I was with my salary. Thought about quitting job but decided to stay put another year to continue growing the site. Great decision.
After 3 years I was making about 3x my salary from my site (and it continues to grow each month). That's when I decided it was time. Quit my job and now work on my site to keep growing it while traveling where/when I want, doing what I want...total freedom and peace of mind.
It's fantastic. Haha. And ANYONE can do it. It's all about consistency.
Thats really cool! I've got a blog of my own that I'm struggling with. I have a few questions (if you don't mind answering):
1) How much content did you have on your website before you decided to start monetising it?
2) Do you still regularly update the site with fresh content?
3) I'm personally having a really rough time managing a full time job, training and working on my site. How did you balance life and your website?
I'm happy to answer your questions.
- I had about 30 - 40 articles on my site before monetizing. I wanted to make sure I had enough content up that I'd get approved by the various networks. I first used Adsense and native ads (Content.Ad, Taboola, etc), then added Amazon (also tested a bunch of other networks and monetization types as well).
- Normally yes. The past couple weeks I've been traveling a bit so haven't updated it much though. Went to Malaysia for a few days last week - Kuala Lumpur and Melacca. I'm in Thailand now and in a couple hours I'll be traveling to Chang Rai and staying there for a few days. Anyway, when the writers finish the articles and queue them up, I review them and publish them to the website - Usually I'll publish about 1 - 4 articles per day.
- I didn't balance it. I went balls to the wall. I sold 95% of my stuff, moved out of my nice apartment and moved back in with my parents for a year (increasing my morning commute time but about 45 mins). I slept in my 8 year old brothers bed (I was 36 at the time). I woke up at 4:45am every morning, commuted to work, then worked on my website on my office computer until my job started at 8am. Fortunately, my boss would normally come in around 11am so I was usually working on website until he came in. I'd sneak times throughout the day to work on it as well.
Every day after work I'd go straight to the library, work on my website until the library closed at 8pm. Then I'd drive 60 mins home, go directly to bed, wake up at 4:45am and repeat. I also went to the gym 3 days a week. On those days I'd hit the gym after work then go straight to the library till close, then home. On the weekends I'd wake up at 8am, go straight to a coffee shop and work on my website until the coffee shop closed at 9pm (did this on both Saturday and Sunday). I'd visit my best friend once a month and crash at his house for the night. But other than that, I worked as described above 7 days week, nonstop.
After exactly 1 year, I moved out of parents place and lived in my car for a little over a month. During which time I still worked on my website as I said above. Then I found a way to sneak past the alarm at work. So from then on I snuck into work at night and slept in the storage closet. I slept/lived in the storage closet for 2 years and still kept working on my website as per above. It was rough. hah. But as mentioned in the previous post, it was all worth it. Now life is just beautiful, hah. I love it.
Hope that helps.
Yes I think. 3 people.
1. Girl with a huge safety net, she writes poetry books and joins programs that have her move around. I believe she's in India right now. Really nice.
2. Cam girl. Hella bad. She doesn't pay for shit, ever. She works a couple hours a week diddling her doodle, and her life is so easy you can see the search for meaning in her day to day life.
3. Old homie. Like, we were 8 when we we met. Dude kinda became big shit in a big city selling pot. He kept investing that money into his capital, got a couple side businesses to make sense of his income, and eventually that state legalized it. Now he makes a couple phone calls a day and everything runs itself, and he has enough connections that he's basically set for life. We talked numbers and he's banking about 200k a month before costs. He doesn't have to leave his house.
You're right on with your observation. The VAST majority of "digital nomads" are broke and will never make it. They spend all their money and go back home in 6-12 months.
My money comes from my website (outdoors website - hiking, camping, etc).
I spent 3 years busting my ass to build the site and grow the revenue/profit (this was in addition to having a full time job). In 2 years I was making more from my site than I was with my salary. Thought about quitting job but decided to stay put another year to continue growing the site. Great decision.
After 3 years I was making about 3x my salary from my site (and it continues to grow each month). That's when I decided it was time. Quit my job and now work on my site to keep growing it while traveling where/when I want, doing what I want...total freedom and peace of mind.
It's fantastic. Haha. And ANYONE can do it. It's all about consistency.
Soma is a sleep aid, mild narcotic, and the drug of mass pacification from the book Brave New World