I need to vent.

Everyone all the time asks me how can I afford traveling all the time. I work remotely and have a corporate 10 years long career, I don’t have kids and don’t have a car or an apartment. I speak 2 languages and used to be the most hardworking person ever to make my career. Don’t get me wrong, I’m still from a poor country and I don’t make big money, I travel on budget, but in my country I would be consider above average in terms of money. I’m great in managing money, I provide for myself and am independent for 10 years and I used to live for only $275 a month.

Also as a digital nomad I travel to live in a country, I’m not a tourist that spends much money every day.

How do you deal with it? People tell me all the time that I’ll get broke or that I should work more or that I have a sugar daddy. They ask me if this lifestyle isn’t expensive. Obviously it is, but having kids also is super expensive.

The most funny thing is that I meet people that makes literally 10 TIMES MORE than me and they are jealous and ask me of I could advise them to make more and how much they should make to afford being a digital nomad.

  • Freakonomical@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    It’s the jealousy …

    • They are stuck in 9-5 while you are not
    • They have 10,20 year loans which you don’t
    • They have to compromise their partner’s lifestyle which you don’t
    • They want what you have but they can’t have it even though they followed all the “rules” in life ---- married, job, kids,mortgage — and it makes them mad, they can’t comprehend it — basically entitlement.