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Re: Location Independence

Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2014 10:24 pm
by blackomen
You've read the 4 Hour Work Week 1 too many times..

Not saying I wouldn't dig that lifestyle as well..

There's another blogger, Chris Guillebeau, who used to talk about running his businesses while he volunteered in West Africa several years ago.  It seems running an online business is a prerequisite to this lifestyle though.

Re: Location Independence

Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2014 1:37 am
by Mark Leavy
blackomen wrote: You've read the 4 Hour Work Week 1 too many times..

Not saying I wouldn't dig that lifestyle as well..

There's another blogger, Chris Guillebeau, who used to talk about running his businesses while he volunteered in West Africa several years ago.  It seems running an online business is a prerequisite to this lifestyle though.
I have read the 4 hour work weak, but my business is a real brick and mortar deal - with 60 employees, engineers, mathematicians, field operators and all of the support staff required to make it work.  Built up over ten years.  After 30 years of cubicle life.

Re: Location Independence

Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2014 2:18 am
by MachineGhost
Mark Leavy wrote: I have read the 4 hour work weak, but my business is a real brick and mortar deal - with 60 employees, engineers, mathematicians, field operators and all of the support staff required to make it work.  Built up over ten years.  After 30 years of cubicle life.
You are the evil capitalist exploiter that lounges around smoking fat cigars while others toil by the sweat of their brows!  Tar and feather!

I used to be inspired by aspiring to a cosmopolitan P.T. lifestyle, but now I realize it's sort of pointless.  The entire world is Americanizing.  Same shit, different country.  The inner space is much more important now than the illusion of physical freedom.

Re: Location Independence

Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2014 3:05 am
by gizmo_rat
MachineGhost wrote: The entire world is Americanizing.  Same shit, different country.  The inner space is much more important now than the illusion of physical freedom.
To be fair to any Americans on the forum I'd say Corporatising, rather than Americanizing, it's an evolutionary dead end but dinosaurs were around for while too.
Completely agree with your point about freedom in the head, not much else you can attempt to exercise control over. Though on reflection I doubt that warmer weather and more adventurous cuisine would seriously impair that.