Five reasons to quit your job

Am I serious? You bet ya! There are many others out there quitting their jobs, downsizing, starting new businesses, living the dream, so why can’t you? Do you realise that one of the dumbest things is only getting paid for the time you work? So here are five reasons to escape the rat race. 1. … Read more

Hello from Bali

Since, it was my idea to open up the blog to other Working Nomad forum members, I thought I should get around to making my first post here. I think I first came across the Working Nomad website from the Lonely Planet travel forum and I joined on the 19th of April, 2006.  I only … Read more

Living for the weekend again

Well it’s now been four long years to the week since I last worked in a proper office, surrounded by proper people and doing proper work. Well that’s not entirely fair, I do work with people these days and I do consider my work to be kind of proper. What has changed is the way … Read more

South Florida as a destination for a working nomad?

Why not? If you are already living in Florida or in the States for that matter Southern Florida as a destination may not be as appealing to you, as someone living in the UK. If you coming from Europe like I did the idea of winters in the sun and all those other attractive things … Read more

A better year for my carbon footprint

It has been a  while since I have updated the site but to be honest not too much has been going on. I have in fact been living in Bristol for nearly 7 months now and in that time have only been abroad once to Madrid for a weekend. Apart from a stint in Auckland … Read more

Where would you go?

One of the decisions that a mobile worker has to make is where to hang out. The pattern I have adopted over the last few years is to be in Europe from around March to October and then head to the Tropics and Southern Hemisphere during the winter. Locations that interest me are places with … Read more

5 things I want to do in 2009 & 2010

WARNING! Another almost totally self-indulgent post. I think it is good to have plans and to make goals. If I didn’t make plans I’d rarely do anything. If I never planned to get up in the morning then I possibly wouldn’t. The writing of this will inspire me to get off my backside and to … Read more