Bad idea because
- Jobs hiring will complain about the gaps in your resume
- when you are too old to work anymore you will have nothing
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- Not if you're a freelancer. I know some people who've been doing that for years, no issues getting a new gig.
- Then you retire.
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A woman I know worked as an escort on and off and spent most of her time traveling, but I don't think most people have the looks and the charisma to do that even if they want to. I'm not sure what other careers both pay enough and let you quit and then start again easily, but presumably there are some.
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Honey, that was a lifestyle boomers actually lived once. Though it's more of a silent generation lifestyle
So just longer “camp” work? Some people work for 3 months and get a month off.
I knew a landscaper who would work for the 6 months you can and then all winter would go and stay on the mountains. The company he worked for only needed to keep a couple guys for snow clearing, so it worked perfectly.
I did one cycle of it, but now I'm too burnt out and despaired and in need of medical care to think of going back to any form of employment and I'm really lucky that I dont have to worry about it too much
So many people talk about doing this but few actually do.
I've done something similar involving working holidays. I'm tired now and Covid fucked up my plans and my career is going to be hell to get back into, but I want to change anyway. Just hope I got enough experience and education and brains to climb up the ladder, I just don't know where yet.
I'm glad I did it but it isn't for most.
if you're a native English speaker, you can start doing this next week.
every month you teach english generally results in 2 to 3 months of savings.
My friend spent a few years in Taiwan and Thailand this way, no need to be a teacher by trade either.
it's a great job.
teach as little or much as you want, save as much money as you want, go pretty much wherever you want, and then chill out the rest of the time.
I taught for several years and am still traveling on the savings a decade later.
did you use to teach online or in-person? i have heard of people doing this but i always just assume its already too full of people doing it that it would be hard to make space for yourself to get into it
both.
I taught in person in China at first, and then after I started traveling full-time I taught online because all you need is a smartphone.
and no, the market is not at all saturated, it is wide open. there are literally thousands of jobs available right now across dozens of countries and online.
if you have any interest in traveling, or you need money, and are a native or fluent English speaker, teaching English is such a great deal.
I'm happy to answer any other questions you have.
thats great thanks for being so open to share your experience, how did you manage to get people driven to enroll to be your student? i get that online you would usually join a platform for it (there are many which is hard to know which to use, but they have many users so they do the work of marketing your service for you, but so comes with the competitiveness for students with other teachers)
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I kinda love it and kinda hate it
Nothing new.