Why We Quit Our Jobs to Travel the World
Welcome back to travel support.
Well, travel Thursday, travel Thursday, we got a brand new
series for y'all inside of this lovely brand new podcast studio
that we're sitting inside of. So a lot's changed. It's been a
little while. Yeah, it's been a little while. But we have a
brand new idea for this podcast, a brand new thing that we want
to do. And it's called quit your job, travel the world. And
that's more or less what we're going to be talking about
pretty much every single podcast episode, every single week
from here on out is our thoughts, our process, every single
thing that we had to do to go from like, in our nine to five
jobs, you know, four, five, how long five, six years ago, all
the way through saving up enough money, quitting our jobs,
traveling the world for a year that has now turned into like
four or five years, and then eventually coming back home, all
of that stuff in as much detail as we possibly can, in as many
episodes as it takes to get there. So that that's our plan.
Yeah, on top of like our we're still going to be doing our
three days in X videos on a budget on our main channel. But
we've been getting a ton of questions from a lot of you
regarding this topic of what it was like to truly just quit your
job and travel the world, but not just what it was like, but
like specific questions and recommendations. And we have gotten
a chance to actually meet a lot of you out when we're
traveling. So cool. And, and hearing stories about you guys
taking some time off, getting sabbaticals, all of this has
like prompted a lot of good questions and conversations
around this idea of, yeah, what is it like to quit your job to
travel the world? Yeah, because I think it's perfectly natural,
like if somebody came around to you and just said like, Hey, I
quit my job to go and travel for a year. I think the first
question out of almost everybody's mouth is just how
right. And then after that is like, how can you possibly
afford it? And then after that is like, no, really, like, how
the could you possibly afford to do that? You know, there's
just for doing that. There's so many questions, I think around
this process and definitely way more misconceptions than not
about what this actually takes and the sacrifices required to
do it. Like, there's so much bad advice on social media about
travel. And just in general in the world, like, there's all
these kind of influencers who you see out there, traveling the
world, doing all this crazy stuff every day, and then they'll
give you advice, they'll be like, how did you do it? And
they'll answer like, you just got to change your mindset, bro.
That's all you got to do you manifest. You got to manifest it.
Listen, you just like stop buying Starbucks for like three
days, and then bam, all of a sudden $40,000 in your bank
account and the boom, you're a Polly. You got to stop talking
like that. So it's, it's that sort of stuff that energy of
like, providing absolutely no real detail about how to do this
thing and no real understanding, but just saying that it's like
some mindset shift that you need to make to be able to quit
your job and travel the world. It is part of it, for sure, but
it's not the whole story. It's not the whole picture.
And we know, you know, a lot of people we're not saying you
should go out and quit your job and travel the world. Not at
all. That's not what we're trying to encourage people to do.
But because this was a thing that we did and it changed our
whole life, our whole lifestyle, our whole jobs. And we've gotten
a lot of questions from a lot of you about this. This is one of
the reasons why we want to talk about it. The other thing is we
also think that, I mean, the more that we do this, I feel like
the more that I've learned personally that there's so many
ways to travel the world and not quit your job. So I think for
people that are not looking to go out and burn bridges and
quit your nine to five, I think there's so much in the series
that also hopefully will be helpful for you about traveling
and what it means to take an extended amount of time to
travel or chase any big dream that you have.
That's true. That's true. Because I think, I think really
what we're making here is the guide that we wish that we had
before we started this whole thing, the guy that we wish
that we had when we had this idea of like, Hey, do you think
it'd be possible to like take a one year trip and go wherever
we want and then, you know, kind of like return back to normal
life? Yeah. And at that time, when we first had that idea,
there was nothing and there still isn't really much out there
that's talking about this in like an actual in depth how to
sort of way. I mean, because the truth is not everyone can
quit their job. No, no, should they? No, I think a lot of
people have an idea of like, I want to go to Europe for two
weeks or I want to go like go around Southeast Asia for like
three months and then take an extended break. And I think I
don't know this, this series will change and evolve over time.
I mean, already this podcast has changed over time. We're no
longer sitting on the ground for those of you that aren't
watching all your cheers now. We have cheers. We have a
backdrop. But I think the hope is that this podcast will also
provide information that we don't even know and have the
knowledge about like, I would love to bring on experts and
other people that know what it's like to take a sabbatical,
ask your jobs about taking a sabbatical. What it's like to
be a digital nomad. I mean, we are digital nomads and that we
work and we're nomadic and we work on our computers but we
don't have the traditional like we have a boss that we work
for. Right. I mean, I guess. I mean, each other. I suppose
YouTube. All of this is supposed to be hopefully helpful for
anyone that is remotely interested in travel long term.
But let us know in the comments what questions you have,
what thoughts you have and hopefully we'll keep growing
and evolving this thing and providing the information that
you're looking for. Also, tell us what you think about this
backdrop. I'm undecided. She thinks it's a little busy.
It's a little busy. We have a lot going on. If you're listening
to this, right, like if you're listening to this on
podcast, there's maps. There's a giant backpack. There's
like 25 different photos. I love it. In fact, the busier the
better for me. Maybe that's my ADHD head talking but just
like the more stuff generally the heavier I am. And I'm like
minimalist, clean space, just a few things, really important
few things. Yeah. Anyway, so let's get to it. So why should
you listen to us about this topic? I think it's a reasonable
question. Maybe maybe you've never seen our faces before and
this is just popping up for you and I think it's a good
question that you should ask of anyone before you listen to
anything they say on the internet. So between the two of us,
we have quit our jobs to go and travel the world five total
times and that's a lot. Times. Four of them were Josh. Sure.
Yes. Let's be clear. Yeah. And so going through this process
is kind of second nature to us at this point. We've done it
a lot. We're like you go in, you work a year, you save up a
bunch of money, you move all the things in your life that you
need to move, you sell all your stuff and then you go and
travel for a year and then you come back home and you're
like, oh, now I need to do this whole thing again to save up
more money to be able to travel again. Doing that as many
times as we've had and also now traveling effectively full
time for our living. I think makes us one of the most
experts on this extremely niche topic of quitting one's job to
go and like pursue anything big but especially specifically
traveling the world for like a year or three months or however
long you want to go. I think the goal really for this podcast
series is to be able to share our experiences, share what we
did, what mistakes we made, what things we wish we had
known, what things we would have done differently and then
hopefully provide that experience for you to take and
say, is this something that I want to do? Yeah. And if so, to
be able to actually like help you do it. Yeah. You know, to
help you make it reality. Okay. So, that's what this
entire thing's going to be about. That's what this podcast
is going to be about from here on to the you know, foreseeable
future which I'm really excited about. The thing that we want
to talk about today is why would anybody want to quit their
job to travel the world? And I think this is a very good
question and I think for some people, they'll hear that and
be like, duh, like doesn't everybody want to quit their
job to travel the world? You know, when I hear that, I like
immediately want to be like, no, I want to play devil's
advocate and I want to say, but on the other hand. So, I
think that's like what we're going to talk about today. Like
what was our reasoning for quitting our jobs to travel
the world? What was like the impetus? What was the reason
that made it happen? What was that that driving push? And now
that we're on the other side of it, do we have regrets? Do we
wish we would have done things differently? And yeah, like a
pros and cons. Why did we originally want to quit our
jobs to travel the world? So, I'll just talk about my my
first time here back in 2011, 2012. And I think that the
story is going to resonate with a lot of people out there of
like, maybe something that they're stuck in right now or
something that they felt before. So, 2011, I had gotten out
of college a couple of years before that I was working like
a pretty steady job. But I always had this like feeling
that something was missing in my life. I always had this
feeling that like, I don't know that this like nine to five
job that I had been like working my entire life towards, but
not really for me. I just been like working towards it
because I thought that that was the thing that you were
supposed to do. You know, just like go to school and get
like pretty good grades and then go to college after that
and then just like pick out a major that's like safe, but
also kind of will make you money and maybe will also be
lucrative at some point and maybe will provide job
security and stability in your life. And I realized after
like a couple of years of working that job that I didn't
really value many of those things if any of those things
like stability was not a thing that I was particularly
interested in security. I just I never really spent much on
anything at all. Well, it's interesting because I mean, I
think
it's interesting because to know that you don't value it, you
had to have had it, right? So it sounds like I mean, and we
both were lucky enough to come from stable and kind of
secure families. Yes. And to be in a place where we could
make that decision. But yeah, for sure. It sounds like at
that time you were like, this is great, but like what else?
It just wasn't making me happy. Yeah. It just wasn't making
me happy. I I remember distinctly going into work one
day and I worked in IT and we were installing this like new
phone system for this company that we were working for. And I
went into this big boardroom, this huge place and there were
like 40 people in it. All them old, all them just cranky as
hell. Wait, did you say 40? Yeah, they were like 40 people.
Oh, I think you said 40 years old. No, not no. They were all
the ages were all sort of like, I don't know. Probably not
talk about age. Yeah. Yes. There were there were just a
bunch of like people who were much older than me and and made
it like further down the line of the play like like the path
that I had just started. And I remember sitting there and
seeing like the people on our side of the table trying to
explain that like here's how the phone system is going to
work and you don't have to worry. We've got it. Everything's
going to be fine. And then the people on the other side of
the table so stressed out and just like, oh, you better not
screw this up. But this phone system is the most important
thing that could ever occur. And I just had this like
disassociative moment of just like watching this happen and
nobody in the room like really actually cared the fact that
they were losing sleep over losing hair over it losing
their minds over this thing. This thing I just looked out at
I just in that moment I just like sat back and just
projected into the future of like, that's going to be me. If
I don't do anything different, best case scenario, I'm going
to be like that VP of IT just right across the table from
us face red, screaming about a phone system that'll be me
someday. Best case scenario if I do this. And at that moment,
seeing myself turn into this person that's like, you know,
30 years older than me who had made pretty good money, but
lost his sanity and kind of like his spark to live.
Over that time just like witnessing that in real life
future me. I just knew that there had to be a different
path. And I knew that it wasn't that and it wasn't that and
I know that that's like a privilege thing to even be
able to think about. I guess I like travel wasn't even a
thought in my mind at that point in time. It was just not
this whatever this is whatever is causing people to behave
like this. I just I can't do it. So why yeah, why travel? Why
was it like I need to take a break and just I don't know
go to Disney World or I need to who just travel but uh why
not just change careers or go back to school or you know,
why why was it travel? Yeah. So I think part of it over
honesty time is that it just it made me sound cool. My ego
wanted it for a little bit. Is that like I wanted to be the
guy that went on a trip around the world. You know, I
wanted like in my head that was the version of me was just
like little nerdy Indiana Jones. You know that that's the
people that I looked up to when I was a little kid was people
just like flying around to whatever they wanted and like
that part of that was there and then I found an opportunity
which you know if you're gonna know me at all. Great deal.
Finding a good deal is about the biggest motivator for me
on earth to be able to do something. I found this way. It
seemed impossible at first of course to be able to quit your
job and travel. It wasn't even an idea and then I saw this guy
who had like traded in a bunch of little pudding things for
like millions of American Airlines miles and then just
traveled forever. He just like kept flying from place to
place off of his infinite American Airlines miles and I
was yeah see it's like putting cups. Yeah, little pudding
cups and you who do you take it to? He teared the thing off
him, mailed it in and then they gave you American Airlines
miles and this dude just I wish that still exists. You know,
this dude just like figured out that the pudding cups were
cheaper than what the miles were worth. So, he just like
bought pallets and pallets of this stuff. Yeah. But it was
that idea and that sparked in me this first concept that like
oh, I can be the guy that travels around the world. I just
need to like do some really wacky stuff in my life. You
like combined your love for gaming any system. It's true.
With the love of travel and met them. Yes. And that's what
really brought that idea first to my head. Honestly, I was
never really the person. I I'd only left the country I think
once by the time that I was like 21 and when I saw that I
saw a different vision in my mind, you know, no longer did I
see me 50 years old losing somehow more hair than I've
already lost and like yelling red faced across the room about
building on a phone system. I saw me in Thailand eating like
pod tie on the street or like hanging out on a beach in
Malaysia or like traveling across Europe with a backpack
on. That's the new vision that I had in my head as soon as I
saw this like wacky dude with his pudding cups that he had
like solved this problem of just being able to travel around
the world for effectively free and being able to see that the
vision that I saw of myself that person wherever that went
probably didn't have a lot of money like that future me who
is traveling the world was probably not rich but I
realized I didn't care about that. That's not what that's not
what I wanted. That's not what I wanted. What I did want was
at that time to look cool. Honestly, this is like the
guy that did that but to just be more adventurous to do an
entirely different path in my life. Something fully different
than anything that I had done before. Anyone that I knew who
had done it and back in 2011, it's not like there were a lot
of people talking about this. Almost nobody. So, it sounds
like your initial why was just opting out of the current
situation. I was running away from something for sure. I was
running away from something but then I also in the part of
running away this something like dug up the uncovered this
whole other life path. Yeah. That I don't think I would have
ever found had I not you know like I think those things led
to each other but for sure the first thing was just fully
unhealthy like I gotta hit the eject button on whatever this
life is and do something doesn't really matter what's
different. It wasn't like it wasn't like uh ooh let's um let's
take two weeks off. Let you let's use that PTO for a little
bit and then go back to work. I need a refresher. You were
just like nah. Nah. There was no world where two weeks of
PTO would have been able to and those guys had taken tons
like the other people in this giant conference room. They
had taken those two weeks of PTO per year. Maybe even more. I
bet they have four or six weeks as an American because they
had been working there for 30 years but still it's just it
seems like they had just lost their spark for life and that
for me was terrifying. Okay. So, what about you? I've been
talking for too long here. So, what about you? Um so, when
was the first time that you like had this idea in your head
that hey, maybe it's time to go and do something bigger. Take
a big chunk of time out and go and do something. Yeah, it
wasn't. I mean, truly, it wasn't until we met and we got
engaged and I remember the exact moment we were sitting on
the couch in our apartment and we were planning our two week
hopefully, if we were lucky, two week vacation honeymoon.
Yeah. We had done some light planning for our wedding but
really, we were focused on where are we going to go? What
what places are we going to see on our honeymoon? And I
remember we were filling out the spreadsheet and I was like
well, I've always wanted to go to Thailand. I've always wanted
to go to Rome. I've always wanted to go to Paris. I've
always wanted to go to the UK. I've always wanted to go to
Cambodia. I've all you know, there's all these places kept
coming up and I remember filling out the dates and saying,
well, we could only have like three days is three days and
is three days enough as we're learning? No, never. Yeah. Three
days and anywhere is not enough. It's a good start. Three
days, you know, in Thailand and then we have to fly all the
way somewhere else like how is that going to fit and I
remember just feeling like it was the most clear thing that I
felt in a really long time and maybe like the last three
years that was like a clear solution. The clear the
clearest solution was what if we quit our jobs and take a
year? I think I like looked at you and I just said, well,
why don't we just take a year? And I remember you were so
stoked and I was like, and I was like, yeah, yes, I'll do it
again anytime. And I was and and I wasn't even I don't even
think I thought about it the way that you were thinking
about it. I think because I had spent most of my life not
running away from things and and I had lived the same thing,
the stable, secure life, very I had lived the same way, very
stable, very secure, but I value those things and I and I
still do. But you know, I did the same thing. I I was lucky
enough to go to college. I was lucky enough to go to grad
school. I worked in a very stable job. I I you know, and I
wasn't even really interested that much in travel and the way
that I think a lot of people crave travel. I remember at the
time before we met, I wasn't even I think I used to scoff at
people that would travel the world and they'd come home and
they'd be like, oh, I was in Paris for the summer. I was in
Barcelona and I'd be like, okay, yeah, I was at home just
substitute teaching for a little bit. Yeah, that's what I
was doing saving money. It just didn't resonate with me
because we didn't travel as kids. We didn't go
internationally. Travel was a leisure thing and my life
wasn't for the longest time. It felt like life wasn't meant to
be lived for leisure. Life was meant to be lived for working
productivity, taking care of your family. Those were the
things, right? Like and so that's why I never really left
home. I never really moved far away from my family and taking
a trip. Even taking PTO was like not good. I remember when I
first started my real job and I told my mom, oh, I'm going to
a conference and I remember I was going to take an extra day
for the after the conference. It was in Arizona, I think and I
was like, I really want to see um I really want to see
Antelope Canyon and it's so close and by so close it's like a
few hour drive. Sure. But I decided I was going to go to
the conference and then take an extra day to go and see
Antelope Canyon. My mom was like, don't take up too much time.
Don't take off too much time. Your bosses will be upset and I
was like, so that was my mindset. Like I cannot, I'm not
allowed to. It's frowned upon. It's your only job is to work.
You should be afraid of taking vacation. Yes. You know.
And so, I don't, I mean, so for me, it wasn't like a one
moment that like changed my life. I think it was a creep for
me where like I started to enjoy travel more. I loved
nature. I love nature photography. I loved being
outdoors and the more I started to experience that on my
little two day, three day vacations, eventually one
week vacation or two week vacations, it came to a
point where I was getting upset that the system that we
were in didn't allow for more experiences of the world.
Yeah. And so, by the time that we met, it just was like this
pure frustration in planning our honeymoon and thinking down
the line. I don't know when I'm going to get to see Thailand.
I don't know when I'm going to get to see all of Europe. I
might be 70 if I keep going at this pace of like one week
here, one week there, two days here, three days here.
And who knows what kind of trip you'd have at 70 or if you'd
even be able to take a trip at 70. Or if I would be alive
even in my 30s or 40s. Like there was no guarantee and
there was a part of me that also realized after I turned 30
that nothing's promised, right? We know that. We say that a
lot but my dad had passed away in my late 20s and this is
weird but I had a college roommate who had known me and my
family for a long time and the way she explained it to me was
when my dad was alive. I remember, I never, I always went
home on the weekends for college. I always went home on the
weekends for college. I spent all of my time off, all of my
holidays with my family. And a lot of that's cultural but a
lot of it is also this like fear that I had that something
was going to happen to my family. Oh, so it was like you
couldn't leave because, oh if I leave but then what if?
What if something happens? I'm gone and this occurs, okay.
And so, that's what I'd spent most of my life doing. Like
never left home, never left, not even, not even for like a
weekend, you know, in college I spent most of my weekends
with my family just for that fear. I remember canceling a
trip to visit my cousins in Colorado one Christmas because
I thought, what if this is the last Christmas? Oh. And like, I
don't know where that came from but that was like a thought
that I'd always had. My college roommate said it to me,
Bas, she was like, it's almost like you're living like your
dad's dying but he wasn't. And then, and then when he passed
away, I realized that I'd spent almost 30 years of my life
living like he was dying. Not living. And for him, right? Like
he was still there. Yeah. Anyway, long story short, it was
for me it was blessed. Did he ask you to do that or was this
a thing that you like self-imposed? Was this a, was
this a thing that you decided of like, okay, my dad's health,
it's not terrible but it's not great. Yeah. Like, I need to do
this. No, he never asked. You know, he never, but it is one of
those things that is implied in our family. Okay. Family comes
first above all else and I still think those things are
true but it looks different for different people and I think
for me, it became this. Well, I have to make sure this is
okay at home. I have to take care of this. I have to like, I
felt responsible for a lot of things at home. Right. And if I
wasn't there, then what's gonna happen? Unnamed bad thing
with her like, who knows like, but it would be bad. Whatever
it would be, it'd be bad. And then I realized after he
passed, I mean, anyone who's gone through a loss like that,
any loss, it's bad anyway but. Yeah, there's nothing you can
do to really prepare for it. No. And while someone's around,
I mean, that saying is still, it's cheesy but it's true,
cherish the people and your health, your life, the things
around you while you still can. Yeah. And I realized I was
cherishing it but like, not. I wasn't. I wasn't really
cherishing it. I was acting like eminent bad things were
gonna happen. You were just like holding on to it as tight
as you could. Yeah. Hoping it wouldn't slip. And that was
paralyzing and that in turn led me not to ever consider
travel, ever consider a different career path, ever
consider leaving. Do you think, what do you think your dad
would have said if he knew that like, that was the
decision you were making and why you were making that
decision? Oh, I think. Like, would he have said go or would
he have said, please stay close or would he have said like,
make sure you visit a couple of times a month? Like, what would
do? I think. What do you think his advice would have been? I
think he would have said and he would have been honest,
selfishly, I want you to stay. I think that's what he would
have said but I think he would have ultimately been happy
and proud and like, happy that I'm happy. That you want to go
travel or did the things you want to do. Yeah. And and I
think, I still think to this day, this is getting way on
topic. Sorry. This is. I'm just sure there's a lot of
people out there who are probably thinking the same
thing. Yeah. You have thought and probably going
through a similar thing that you went through. I know
everyone has different relationships with their
families in different ways to, you know, relate to their
family. For me, it was like a, I felt like I had to be
home. That was like my duty. That was my responsibility.
Whether it was imposed on, I mean, there's a little bit of
that. I don't want to put my parents on blast but you
know, it's. It was an expectation. There is some
expectation and it's a little bit of cultural
expectations and there's a little bit of pride that I
have to help and take care of my family. Yeah.
But I think by the time we met and we got engaged and
we were thinking about all these places that I'd never
been that I wanted to experience. Like I think it
was the first time that I was told or that I was
allowing myself to dream. Allowing myself to think
what alternative reality could I have here. Yeah. And
what do you think made you be comfortable with that
mindset? Whereas like the 30 years before that you were
like, no, this is the thing that I need to be doing.
I think it was just true, just frustration and just
understanding that I would never be able to do it
if I didn't do it then. Let's see. And I think like I
said, I'd spent 30 years up until that point not
doing the exact opposite of that. Yeah. And I wasn't
any. I mean, I wasn't unhappy and it sounds like you
were very unhappy in your job. But I think that
there's something in there that we had a lot in
common which is just avoidance of future regret.
Sure. And I think that both of us had that same thing
of like, how am I going to feel if I don't do this?
How am I going to feel if I let this opportunity pass
20 years from now, 10 years from now, whatever, even
two years from now? Yeah. How am I going to feel and how
am I going to look at myself? Am I the type of person
that goes on a trip around the world or am I a type of
person who just dreams about it and just lets it kind of
slip away? Yeah. And that decision for me of like
avoiding that regret that I knew I would have if I didn't
actually go through with it because it felt so right.
Hearing the idea felt so, so right. I lost a really like
my best friend I lost in, I don't know, sophomore
junior year of college. I just watched this guy that I
spent every single day with just all of a sudden go from
super healthy to stomach cancer to I'm speaking at his
funeral in like three months. And that like changed
something in my head. Immediately, the realization
that I don't get to control how long this ride goes,
that I don't get to decide, you know, when this ride
stops for myself, this ride of life. That came
definitely from back then in college, just watching my
best friend and going through all of this with him
step by step and just seeing how just unexpected. There was
no reason, the healthiest dude, amazing swimmer, just like
worked out all the time, ate pretty good, never really
dragged, just like he was doing all everything right,
everything right in college and then it was just over for
him. And that was a huge wake up call for me to realize
that if I'm going to do something, I need to do it
as fast and as soon as I can because I don't get to choose
when this is done. And I know that that sounds scary and
yes, that's had some negative side effects for sure, where
like I feel like I'm always in a hurry to do everything all
the time. I like injected some of that fear in it, but it's
also injected, I think some positive motivation of the,
you know, the way that I look at life in general is like,
it's time to go. I gotta do this because I have no idea
when I won't be able to anymore. And I think the
riskiest thing that anybody can do is to assume that you're
going to be able to do it later. I mean, we were lucky
where we were in some of the best positions financially
because of our jobs. We had each other to like support
those dreams. Yeah, well, I mean, we had to make ourselves
be in a good position. I don't think we were in a good
position when we started. We were in like a, we started at
zero, which is good. A lot of people are not at zero, but
what I was saying is like we had we had the resources to
build on that dream and support and support and I think
we're lucky. I mean, I mean, a lot of you hopefully can chime
in, but we've met a lot of people that come from very
different places, very different countries. Some
countries, like a lot of European countries, it seems
like it is the de facto path to like go travel for a few
months after your after your job or in between jobs. And
that's not really the case here in the US and it's not
really the case in like Singapore or a lot of Asian
countries and a lot of mass majority of countries. So,
yeah, it's so different, but I do think, yeah, we were lucky
that we found each other at that right time and that we
were planning because honestly, who who doesn't want to
tell someone we're planning a one year honeymoon? Right.
Because like for me, growing up, I always felt like I had
to have a reason to travel. Yeah. It could never just be
because I want to go see the world or because I want to
go take pictures on the beaches of Bali. Like I had to
have a reason. It had to be either I'm visiting family. Oh
okay. Yeah. Or it's for work. It's a conference. Right. So,
that's why I was always looking for conferences abroad. But
it's so much more fun to say and kind of justify it. We're
going to take a year off for a honeymoon. So, when that like
when that decision locked into your mind of okay, it's time
to do something different. It's time to go and maybe travel
the world for a year or six months or however long that we
can. Would you say that you were more afraid or certain than
like what fears came into your mind and what were you excited
about? I don't think I was afraid of the actual traveling or
the actual saving up. I mean, I knew one we were both very
thrifty to begin with and we saved a lot. We didn't really
have a you know and that we would I knew that we would
come up with a plan. The thing that I was most worried
about honestly was telling my job and telling people like
telling my family, telling my friends that this is something
we were going to do just because I hadn't known. We
hadn't known anyone that had done that before and I'm
generally a person that's afraid of judgment. I do care
about what people think. I care about
I cared about and I still care about like the job that I was
in the career that I built. That was like the most top of
mine. Yeah. For me, it was how the heck am I going to
afford this? Yeah. It was the first thing because I was
broke at that point in time like broke broke and I was not
making that much money. I was just on the you mean on your
very first one. Yeah. And I was just like I was just
sitting there just trying to cobble together like a
couple a hundred dollars to be able to afford a couch or
like an apartment consistently and I I remember that
moment in time just seeming like doing some basic math
that looked like it was going to cost like fifteen to
twenty thousand dollars to be able to travel the world for
a whole year like I wanted to and just looking at that
mountain and just look like Everest like an impossible
mountain to climb. Of course, I was afraid of telling my
friends. I was kind of excited to tell my friends but I
knew that their reaction and everybody's reaction and I
think you know fairly enough was just you're not going to
do that. Like yeah, this is another one of Josh's
crazy ideas because I do have a lot of crazy idea. This is
what you do. Um my fear was basically how am I going to
find the money and am I just going to let myself down
now that I've told everybody that I'm going to do this?
You know like how am I going to pull this off? And I think
that that right there is a perfect segue to to the next
episode that we're talking about. So, this is just episode
number one. I don't know how many episodes of this thing
it's going to take to be able to explain every single thing
about how to quit your job and travel the world but I'm
sure it'll be quite a few and we've got a lot of
interesting topics to talk about. So, I also am really
really excited. Don't you think I forgot about the devil's
advocate of like why quit your job to travel the world
because I think there are definitely some cons. We won't
get there until later. Yeah, we're going to talk more
about that and everything else. We're going to bring
experts on to talk about all like the kind of hard stuff
definitely hard stuff of like how do you actually tell
your boss that you're going to quit your job? How do you
reapply for the job that you quit when you come back home
without it being weird? How do you save up enough money?
How do you sell all your stuff? How do you actually get a
visa? Everything. Everything is going to be in this
podcast eventually. And let us know in the comments are
there topics or questions that you have around this very
topic or if you have thoughts or expertise or
experience doing this yourself. What were some of your
motivations and if you don't want to quit your jobs to
travel the world, tell us why too. Yeah, there's going to be a
listener Q&A at the end of every single one of these
episodes once we'd start getting enough questions and
we're going to be answering all those and the deeper and
more awkward that you can ask the better. Okay, that is all
for this one. Really hope you guys enjoyed this. We're
super excited about this new series. Yeah. Don't forget to
hydrate. See you next week.
