I have $100k in networth, 0 debt, 0 mortgage, 0 dependencies. Is it insane to quit and travel the world for 6 months? I don’t mind leetcode later. It is just annoying that I want to travel to new places and I can’t due to my work. I want to meet new people, new cultures, try new food. Maybe I am just too entiled and not appreciate enough my current life? Idk. What would you do if you were in my shoes? TC: 190k, 1YoE. #single 27 yo male.
Yes.
Care to share your thoughts, please
1. You're poor. 2. You have good TC/yoe which will help you improve on 1. Ride the TC wave while it lasts. Go travel when the bubble bursts and sadness hits. 3. You don't have to waste all your time and money to see the world. Go on 2-3 vacations a year. If work doesn't allow, change work. 4. Don't fall for the bullshit that traveling compulsively will make you a better person. If you're not already a good person traveling won't make you one. You'll just be more tired and poorer. 5. Go do volunteering if you want to feel better about yourself. Or to help. I presume you're not going to go to Africa and adopt a starving child and give him a chance. 6. Planes are polluting. Ask Greta. 7. You don't have to see all places in 6 months. You can't anyway. Trust me, they'll be there every year. You can see more than a dozen in a decade. 8. Spending all your money and time on food is pathetic. Food is not that special, just another way to be a snob. You enjoy it for the 15min you're chewing it and then you shit it. You can find ethnic food here too. I ate at an Ethiopian restaurant in SF once and it tasted like shit. Why would I spend thousands to go to it's original country just to taste some sour crap ? 9. People who do exaggerated things or compulsively have inner issues. Moderation is the key. Wasting all your time and money won't make you special and won't impress anyone. And it will not fill whatever void you're trying to fill. 10. When you feel like being a snob again, go in front of the mirror and slap yourself.
I did it at 27 as well. The perspective it provides me is literally one if the most valuable in my life.
Thanks. Glad that I am not the only one. How did it change your perspective about life? What did you do after the trip?
Well, the best and easiest way to put it is I started feeling empathy, and stopped seeing humans as just numbers that needed to be moved to do what I wanted. Ohh and what I did after was take the OTC crypto Industry mainstream and kinda pioneered analysis of coins to ensure clients got them from non-"tainted" sources(before chainalysis and elliptic even existed). Which Essentially carried on my trip around the world for an extra 2 years. Until OTC became a theme park for degenerates lol
Not crazy. What you’re doing at 27 is a good predictor of what you’ll be doing at 37, if you don’t like your circumstance now there is no need to act like you’re going to “free up” later. I travel alot and it got waaay better after I dropped the girlfriend, I used to come back from Ibiza after a month all the way to SF to be present. . Just do you
Just convince ur boss to give u a 6mo leave without pay. You may have to wait a few weeks, if u’re a good performer they should be ok
Ask your job to take a leave of absence instead... no need to quit outright
Go for it when you can. Working for others is just an illusion of safety. No matter how good a company's culture is it won't and can't afford to see you as a person, intellectually and spiritually. You have to invest in those yourself.
Go do it
I don't think it's crazy at all. But, lots of people here will say it is and try to warn you that recruiters won't consider you if you have a long gap in your resume. I asked something similar a while ago and even with more in savings than you, got many comments from people saying I would ruin my career prospects with a gap. 🙄🙄🙄
Why does it have to be either/or. Take a month off and travel.. come back and see after few months what you want next
Do what makes you happy
I know. But at the same time, I feel like my job provides me pretty good cushion 🙄
@Cisco cushion from risks, which are what make up life naturally.