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.
The “problem” with other people questioning this experience isn’t with them. It’s with your reaction to them.
Who cares what anyone thinks? I sure the fuck don’t…
Let it go. Be kind. Explain how it has worked for you.
I think the problem is I hate when people ask me about my salary, spendings and savings. It’s too private for me.
There’s a popular saying “when you change the way you look at things. The things you look at change”.
Stop hating it and the problem no long exists.