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I work full time. No gap years.
My passion is photography and I travel every chance I get to go to interesting places to take pjotos.
Here is where I have been to since 2006 (just over 10 years) https://www.flickr.com/photos/phil_marion/albums
How do I do it?
No kids, a wife that has the same interests to travel and not have ids.
I have a union job - God bless unions and I pity anti-union folks who hate unions. Hope they enjoy their 2 weeks a year.
As I have over 15 years service at work I get 5 weeks paid vacation a year plus 2 additional days. I always travel over Xmas so that I get 3 more days vacation (the statutory days don't count).
I live in a major city and use public transit and bicycle to get to work. Carless living saves thousands of bucks a year.
People who travel a lot are either working in a travel-related workplace, are college students that are traveling mom and dad's money, are college students and are on break or are retired adults that have time to travel. You could also do it the way lots of people I know travel, which is to work a few months, save up $5,000 and then travel, and then come back home work again and then spend it all over again. They basically spend all the money they earn on traveling. Traveling is not that expensive once you get there, because you're basically just paying for the flight and you can stay in cheap hostels, etc.
I personally think traveling is overrated. I would rather just visit places nearby me and save up money for better things like a home, but that's just me. I just don't see the point in blowing thousands of dollars of hard earned money, just to visit a place. If I were a multimillionaire, then it wouldn't be a big deal.
However, some of my friends are people that love traveling, so more power to them.
People who travel a lot are either working in a travel-related workplace, are college students that are traveling mom and dad's money, are college students and are on break or are retired adults that have time to travel. You could also do it the way lots of people I know travel, which is to work a few months, save up $5,000 and then travel, and then come back home work again and then spend it all over again. They basically spend all the money they earn on traveling. Traveling is not that expensive once you get there, because you're basically just paying for the flight and you can stay in cheap hostels, etc.
I personally think traveling is overrated. I would rather just visit places nearby me and save up money for better things like a home, but that's just me. I just don't see the point in blowing thousands of dollars of hard earned money, just to visit a place. If I were a multimillionaire, then it wouldn't be a big deal.
However, some of my friends are people that love traveling, so more power to them.
That's the best part of being an Adult, you can place your priorities in the order you desire!
Location: We_tside PNW (Columbia Gorge) / CO / SA TX / Thailand
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I get the saving $ and budgeting for trips, but how do most of you get away with taking that kind of time for work? ...are you the rare unicorns who have been with the same company for 20 years and have a lot of leave?
some of both...
1) Work for a BIG company with lots of resources to back fill your position.
2) Schedule your LT trip within the constraints of your work responsibilities. (My projects lasted about 20 - 26 months, then cycled. so I would pre-schedule time off at end of project)
3) Take LOA (Leave without pay and no guarantee of job on return) I did that often and always came back to a job (lucky)
4) Benevolent employer who values time off for employees (My employer allowed us to take all summer off, if we trained a technical educator to do our engineering job)
5) Setting the priority.
6) 30+ yrs at same (previously) great employer
7) liberal leave policy (Flex hours + could take up to 29 days in a row w/o pay and not lose benefits)
That's the best part of being an Adult, you can place your priorities in the order you desire!
Yep. I remember as a child always being puzzled why adults who can choose to eat whatever they wanted wouldn't just eat candy, ice cream, etc. for lunch and dinner. I always vowed that when my time came, there would be a fridge filled with cake and nothing else.
Strangely that didn't stick since as an adult I rarely eat sweets. Not sure when this change in viewpoints happened.
That's the best part of being an Adult, you can place your priorities in the order you desire!
unfortunately due to peer pressure, a lot of folks take other people's priority as their own priority - for example, owning a beautiful large suburban house, two cars etc etc.
I personally think traveling is overrated. I would rather just visit places nearby me and save up money for better things like a home, but that's just me. I just don't see the point in blowing thousands of dollars of hard earned money, just to visit a place. If I were a multimillionaire, then it wouldn't be a big deal.
However, some of my friends are people that love traveling, so more power to them.
"Better things" are just that things. Some people value things.
Other people value experiences. And traveling is a great experience.
People who travel a lot are either working in a travel-related workplace, are college students that are traveling mom and dad's money, are college students and are on break or are retired adults that have time to travel. You could also do it the way lots of people I know travel, which is to work a few months, save up $5,000 and then travel, and then come back home work again and then spend it all over again. They basically spend all the money they earn on traveling. Traveling is not that expensive once you get there, because you're basically just paying for the flight and you can stay in cheap hostels, etc.
I personally think traveling is overrated. I would rather just visit places nearby me and save up money for better things like a home, but that's just me. I just don't see the point in blowing thousands of dollars of hard earned money, just to visit a place. If I were a multimillionaire, then it wouldn't be a big deal.
However, some of my friends are people that love traveling, so more power to them.
Home is not better things. It is expensive burden for people who want to keep up with the Joneses
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