Escape from Cubicle Nation by Slim Pamela

Author:Slim, Pamela
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: PENGUIN group

What led you to believe it was possible to “work from anywhere”?

When we first had the idea to do this, it was right after Jonathan had been laid off from his job and my business was still pretty new and not generating enough of an income to support us. Jonathan had never really thought of going freelance or running his own business, but we agreed that we no longer wanted to be at the mercy of an employer and we’d rather make our own decisions and be in control of our own future.

Having decided that, I was convinced that we didn’t need to be paying such high prices for the lifestyle we were living in the UK and was very taken with the idea that if we were living somewhere with a far lower cost of living, then it wouldn’t put so much pressure on our business to make much money. Once I’d convinced Jonathan that this was a great idea, we began to research where to go and how we could do it.

How did you simplify your life in order to be on the road so much?

We sold our apartment, got rid of a lot of our things, and then put the rest into as small a storage room as we could manage. We did come back to the UK after the first six months on the road and culled all our things again and moved into a smaller storage room; that passage of time helped remove some of the emotional ties to things we just didn’t need anymore and couldn’t see needing in our future.

After our first few destinations, we also realized that we rarely used half of the clothes or items we carried with us, so cut down that to a minimum too; we now travel as light as possible (often with no more than 30 kg between us). Our mindset these days is very much one of minimalism—if we need something, we can always buy it, but when we do, we ask ourselves how much we’re likely to use it again in the future and whether we can live without it.

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