Digital Nomad – Travel The World And Work Remotely From Your Computer

This book contains proven steps and strategies to help you understand what it takes to be a digital nomad, as well as the attendant duties, responsibilities, perks and challenges that come along with being one.

Being a digital nomad is a lifestyle. In recent years, it has become a buzzword among mostly young people eager to go out on the road and break out of the usual path followed by their predecessors.

As a lifestyle, being a digital nomad is appealing because it is a radical departure from what many generations have gone accustomed to. In the past, graduation from college often meant having to slave through an 8 to 5 job in a corporate setting, missing out on your younger years stuck in a cubicle at your office. Before you know it, you are retired or dead.

Digital nomadism subverts this traditional route by enabling you to live your life to the fullest, by traveling the world, while at the same time allowing you to be independent and productive by sustaining a career. You are location independent and you work remotely through your computer. So long as there is internet access, you are good.

However, work, in this sense, is only secondary to the more pivotal reason why you are out on the road: because life is supposed to be lived. An ideal life is one of constant discovery and learning, not of daily stress, which is not worth the time and effort you spend day in and day out.

Note, however, that being a digital nomad is not as easy or freewheeling as it looks like. You just do not pack your bags, go out on the road, and expect everything to fall in the right places. Far from it. As you will see in the succeeding chapters, there are challenges that you need to overcome successfully if you wish to pursue being a digital nomad over the long term.