Why I Gave Up My Dream Life as a Digital Nomad Well Before COVID Struck
Life is not a one-trick pony.
On vacation in Bangkok for my 25th birthday, I met a professional poker player. He all but made me drool.
Max was traveling through Southeast Asia while gambling online. He would go from city to city, beach town to beach town, while “working” for an hour or two from the common room of whatever hostel he happened to be staying in. This covered his travel expenses and then some.
He was basically on perma-vacation.
I wanted what he had. So when I got back home, I made a plan.
I had already been thinking about transitioning into the world of tech, and I thought that perhaps as a freelance programmer, I too could work from wherever I pleased and be on perma-vacation.
My Transition to the Nomad Life
A few months after that trip to Bangkok, I enrolled in a coding boot camp in New York City. There I learned to program and eventually landed a job at a small NY-based startup.
About eight months into my role, I asked if I could work from Colombia, where there was no time difference from New York (and where it was sunny and beautiful in January.)
