Posts Tagged ‘career’

Travel Is Not My New Job

May 16th, 2010

Since I started telling more people about my trip this week, I’ve been getting quite a bit of advice about how to make money on the road.

What are you going to do while you travel?”

Is there something wrong with being lazy? Most of us never truly get the opportunity to do absolutely nothing. Sure, we may take a day off to eat chimichangas and watch football, but that’s not what I’m talking about.

Image credit: The Wandering Angel via Flickr under Creative Commons

The concept of a career break is foreign to most people in the corporate world, so in an effort to process what I’m doing, many well-meaning friends are trying to turn the trip into a job for me. » Read more: Travel Is Not My New Job

Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah

April 11th, 2010

In a few days, I’ll be traveling to Wisconsin to tell my family about my plans to travel the world. I may be 45, but I’m still going into the trip with a fair amount of trepidation. Since they’re not big travelers, I’m anticipating some interesting discussions.

To facilitate the announcement, I agonized over a nice letter that summarizes my plans and thoughts. Eventually I came up with this:

Dear family,

I’m leaving my job and everything I own to travel the world.

Hugs and kisses, Joel

image credit: Foxtongue via Flickr

I’m hoping that really kind of says it all and we’ll just go back to playing cards with the dulcet tones of Shep Smith and Fox News in the background.

In case it’s not enough, I’ve put together a little list of the questions I figure might come up. » Read more: Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah