I’ve been at this whole travel blogging thing for a while now – nearly seven years, in fact.
And in those seven years, I’ve noticed a trend that has remained fairly constant throughout my world of travel blogs and Instagram accounts: the insistence that you’ll only ever be happy and fulfilled if you quit your job to travel the world.
While many cubicle dwellers probably do dream about handing in their two-weeks notice in order to go gallivanting around the globe, there are plenty of others for whom that’s either just not feasible, or who simply don’t have the desire to leave their current lifestyle behind in order to travel.
And I just wanted to say today that that’s okay.
The people out there who insist that travel and a 9-to-5 job can’t possibly exist in harmony together in someone’s life have missed the mark, in my opinion.
Sure, I love the location-independent life that I’ve been lucky enough to be able to build for myself, but I would never tell…