Thread 2838074

How do you people get months off at a time to travel? Most employers only let you take off 2-3 weeks in a row. Are you all rich NEETs?

my family treats me like shit but somehow is ok paying for me to stay in budget airbnbs while I hike in hopes of somehow turning it into a travel writing career
im not rich, there's some sort of rodent or something crawling around stuck behind the fridge or oven in the kitchen of my trailer turned cozy cabin, but you just can be careful with spending, and I only travel domestically

>>2838076
So have you written anything? Have strangers read it and shared it around?

>>2838074 (OP)
I just quit my job with $120K saved, going off to Asia while figuring out what to do next. im 26 btw

i get 5 weeks off a year from my job. i use it for a solid month long vacation + some 3 day weekends

i live in social housing so i save on rent, then i travel and i play the big shots abroad.

>>2838074 (OP)
How much do you want to live the travel life?

Are you willing to give up your cushy careercuck benefits to do so? Are you willing to rent a cheap room monthly instead of signing a lease on a spacious apartment? Are you willing to live without a car to avoid the expense of ownership and the hassle of storing it when you're overseas? Are you willing to save 50+ percent of your paycheck every single month?

There are countless jobs you can take which liberate you for part of the year. Normies generally don't like such jobs because they don't offer the stable income that your average paycheck-to-paycheck normie needs for peace of mind. But if living the travel life is your goal, they're perfect for you.

>>2838079
um its a work in progress
i have a few pages down
and im trying to take notes
and also I have thousands of photos
its very important for me to get the best photos I can
but I think I'm a better writer than photographer

>>2838080
I'm same age but I don't have half of this saved. Did I fail at life? :(

>>2838089
If it makes you feel better, there are people older than you with even less.

>>2838089
It really doesnt matter at this point, its all about your future earnings/success and being content with where you're at. My savings are decent for my age, but if Im unemployed long my peers will catch up easily

>>2838089
Personally I fail to see the point of stacking cash beyond a certain point, or accumulating valuable possessions. Especially because you never know when bad shit's gonna happen in life...a severe disabling injury for instance, which will ruin your ability to enjoy the fruits of your labor if not kill you outright. That's why I quit work every year to travel, typically spending about 35% of my funds each travel season. One advantage of having a lower balance is that working and saving money feels impactful. Adding 10% to your savings every month feels a lot more worthwhile than adding a mere 1%.

Everyone on 4chan is either really wealthy or dirt poor with no responsibilities and nothing to lose, normie wagies have no place here.

>>2838099
>my favorite cope for being broke is a logical fallacy
lolwut

>>2838099
>One advantage of having a lower balance is that working and saving money feels impactful. Adding 10% to your savings every month feels a lot more worthwhile than adding a mere 1%.
That's a bad thing not a good thing. When I was increasing my net worth a few percentage points every month I kept fighting through the bullshit and eating shit from my corporate abusers telling myself it's worth it and to keep going.
After I hit the point where it was like 1 percent per month and sometimes investments would increase my net worth faster than my salary I got the good feelings of calm and the bad feelings of the realization I'm wasting my life.

>>2838074 (OP)
I just quit and then find a new job once I'm back.
It takes ages for someone to actually hire me with all the resume gaps but it does eventually happen. Or at least it did so far.

>>2838074 (OP)
It always makes me sad when I talk to Americans on vacation and they ask me how long I'm here for. I say 6 weeks and they are so envious. They say they are here for 1 week. 1 week isn't even worth getting on a plane for, let alone flying half way across the world... You cunts need to sort your shit out. Here was 4 weeks leave a year + sick leave + long service leave. If I save up 2 years worth of leave work won't see me again for 2 months and they can't fire me for it.

>>2838074 (OP)
>Most employers only let you take off 2-3 weeks in a row.
personally, I can get away with 4weeks at a time
and I don't want to travel longer anyway
>Are you all rich NEETs?
working class :(

living and working in Germany helps a lot
>35h/week so easy accumulating overtime
>overtime can be used for extra days off
>33days of vacation per year (matched with public holidays that's ~8weeks off)
usually it's 30days but I pushed for extra days instead of salary when they hired me
>WFH with 2 office days / week but can be skipped if cleared by manager (mine always does, so easy workations)
the salary isn't as high as it could be (~85k€/y as senior embedded dev in defense)
but rarely any stress and can't beat work-life balance here

Save money
Quit your job
Read Kerouac for positive chi
Backpack, volunteer for accomodation and food
You can stretch your money far when you have no dependents, not paying rent etc., especially if you do seasonal work every now and then. Met people who have been on the road for years doing this. I am in western europe and spent under €600 last month and wasn’t even as tight as I could be (had nice meals couple times a week and daytrips)

>>2838074 (OP)
>Most employers only let you take off 2-3 weeks in a row
In America maybe.

In Australia, I can work a bit longer each day, so instead of the standard 8 hour day with a paid hour lunch break I can do a 9 hour day with a half hour lunch break, this easily banks up money and legally required (thanks to my labour union) days off per year. This doesn't even include the week we get for for Christmas to New Years or the week during Easter.

When it gets cold I usually take the entirety of June or July off and romp around South East Asia, just whatever tickets are cheapest.

From Australia currently live in Europe, my job is in critical shortage pretty much planet-wide. I own a house home after working hard for a number of years and I now rent it out. So I packed up and moved overseas and got a full time job so I can travel around Europe (made an agreement with my employer so that I can take additional time off, was discussed in interview). When I get back home I will probably work for like 6 months straight making good money, then take like 2 months off at a time and travel for that duration. Rinse and repeat.

>>2838237
>senior embedded dev in defense)
>horribly boring
>doing something un-useful that is overall harmful to others (promoting violence and militarization of society
if people who had jobs had fun sounding jobs I would want one, but its always just robot work for nefarious purposes

>>2838074 (OP)
>How do you fund your travels?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contingency_Fund_for_Foreign_Intercourse

>>2838256
What is your profession?

Worked, saved, invested. Now I ain't gotta do shit for quite some time.
Fuck brokies.

I've minimized my expenses, and lived somewhat frugally for my whole life. I eat out once a month, for example, and it costs me $10-30. I have no subscriptions to anything except for car insurance and a water heater.

I make $55k after taxes and my expenses are around $30k. Most of what's left over gets invested in ETFs.There is no magic to it. I live by myself and make it happen

>>2838261
>senior embedded dev in defense)
>horribly boring
why would you assume that???
i really like my job and the work I do, it's interesting and challenging

>that is overall harmful to others
anon
I develop software for satcom equipment

rescue services, researchers, airlines and militaries alike (and may others) use this
my company does not sell or develop weapons, you just call it "defense" if a significant part of your revenue is from militaries

>but its always just robot work
almost all engineering jobs aren't that though
there's plenty of positions where you can design and build cool things

>>2838087
the homeless life you say

>>2838074 (OP)
my life was in a fucked position (work and family) but i had an investment property i sold for good profit and used that to travel around europe and asia for a couple of years
>>2838088
i got 100s of pages of notes from everywhere i went and over 150k photos, but the last thing the world needs is another fucking travel blogger shilling affiliate links and copy pasting the same itineraries

>>2838289
Not everyone buys a place to live. Always homeless unless you keep renting in that same location.

>>2838074 (OP)
My company lets me work abroad for half the year.

>>2838277
professional larper, he works at maccas I saw him the other day

>>2838074 (OP)
21k CHF/month income + bonus and stocks, 16 weeks of paid vacation, unlimited unpaid time off, able to work from home/abroad
Just don't be a fag and take your autism frogs back to >>>/r9k/

>>2838288
yeah and uh what are those satellites used for
>and copy pasting the same itineraries
I want to do something different offer more of a narrative flow and insightful observations on local culture and sociology
plus im appalachia-specific and there's not as much competition there as say travel blogging se asia

am 25 make 55k a year and have 0 expenses since I live with my parents.
usually go on at least 2 international trips a year, one with my parents since they like to go to places like Mexico/ Florida or Hawaii, and will let me crash at their hotel as long as I pay for the flight. Then I will go somewhere unique and travel cheap on my own, eating like 2 weeks of stored granola bars and street food.
I get one sick week + two weeks of PTO a year, but I also get unlimited unpaid time off, which i usually take an extra week / 9 days from.
Honestly I take as much unpaid time as I can get away with and have been adding a couple more days every year. I've seen co-workers fired who never go anywhere , never take time off and pride themselves on not taking sick days even when they need it. so oh well might as well see our world while I am in the position to.
have somewhere between 150-200k in stocks, If I ever am fired I think I will do a world tour.

>>2838099
If you speak with an advisor they'll advise you not to stack cash for the long run anyway - the return is simply too low, and depending on where you live its buying power may depreciate in 10 years well below what you gain from interest

Here's how I've done it throughout life
>family money
>freelance gigs
>working abroad
>boyfriend
>working with a billionaire family, going with them, or going during ample time off

It helps to be me

>>2838231
What's wrong with going back to the same job? It saves a lot of hassle, both from your side and from theirs.
>no need for you to apply for new job and prove yourself all over again
>you've already learned the ropes, no need for training
>>2838116
>coping brokie
Sounds like (You). I've spent twice as much time traveling as I have spent working since I renewed my passport in 2020. Despite wildly variable annual earnings, I've never come close to having less than $10,000 USD liquid cash funds on hand. And no, not a whit of this success is thanks to retard copouts like collecting NEETbux or living with mom.
>>2838234
Normie Americans are mega homebodies; many of them can't stand to be away from the comforts of home for more than a week (even if they have up to three weeks of PTO).
>>2838503
My CD with a local bank is currently earning 3.85% APY. But most of my cash is sitting in my Schwab account earning nothing. The flip side is, it sure feels nice to get a $42.73 ATM fee refund after a month in Thailand.
>>2838298
Staying put in one place gets really fucking tiring after a couple months desu. I'm ten days away from being "homeless" again, and can't wait for that liberating feeling of hefting my bags and setting out into the great wide open with no keys in my pocket.

>>2838530
I am not reading ANY OF THAT