Petrina Darrah is a freelance writer from New Zealand who is currently working in Europe.
The digital nomad lifestyle is often sold with images of youthful people smiling into open laptops, against a backdrop of palm trees or enviable beaches.
If you believed the photos, digital nomads would be working from hammocks, sun loungers, and even mountain tops. I’m writing this sitting on an airbed on the floor of my sister’s living room in Inverness, Scotland. I’m wearing sweatpants and a hoodie I raided from her wardrobe because my floaty Bali dresses would probably dissolve in the blustery highland weather.
It’s not what I had envisioned when I quit my full-time job in June to travel and work remotely. But it’s a lifestyle I’m in control of, and I love it.
Read the whole story here: https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/expe...me-a-digital-nomad-heres-what-its-really-like
The digital nomad lifestyle is often sold with images of youthful people smiling into open laptops, against a backdrop of palm trees or enviable beaches.
If you believed the photos, digital nomads would be working from hammocks, sun loungers, and even mountain tops. I’m writing this sitting on an airbed on the floor of my sister’s living room in Inverness, Scotland. I’m wearing sweatpants and a hoodie I raided from her wardrobe because my floaty Bali dresses would probably dissolve in the blustery highland weather.
It’s not what I had envisioned when I quit my full-time job in June to travel and work remotely. But it’s a lifestyle I’m in control of, and I love it.
Read the whole story here: https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/expe...me-a-digital-nomad-heres-what-its-really-like