By all means, go for it. I'm not trying to persuade you from not doing it, only trying to point out that living on a beach teaching english is not the panacea you are imagining it to be, because from the sounds of it, anything is better than your current demoralizing office job.
By all means, go for it. I'm not trying to persuade you from not doing it, only trying to point out that living on a beach teaching english is not the panacea you are imagining it to be, because from the sounds of it, anything is better than your current demoralizing office job.
pontifex
Lifer
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i agree somewhat. it owuld be nice to get away where the weather is nice and just not have to worry about working. just be able to do something you enjoy every day or just go out and be able to spend time doing things you enjoy or doing new things.
sitting in an office all day dealing with all the crap that entails is just awful.
10 years.. you might gone too long to easily get re established. but no one will notice you've been gone a year or two. i slipped back into society after a year with no problems whatsoever.
i highly encourage you to do it.. with the intention of coming back after a year. if, after a year, you find you're cut out for that lifestyle, simply dont come back.
My idea of throwing it all away is an 5 million dollar home on a remote island, fed with a fiber connection, a swiss bank account and supermodel with a couple of swedish maids....oh wait....thats upgrading my life, not throwing it all away....sits back down...
I think about it all the time...
Climbing the mountains in the Himalayas and come back fvck up all the idiots...
You can always dream.
After getting the bad news that I did not get the job that I applied for, that feeling is growing bigger and bigger inside me. I tried to convince my wife to sell everything here and leave, but she really makes good money at her job, and is hard for her to made a decision like that, with not garanties that she will make the same in another place.
No matter what I do, study, present myself, trying to keep up with technology, never is enough for the hiring people, they always want more for less.
I have two boys (26 and 23) they have jobs (thanks to God) and are healthy as well as my wife and myself.
I wants to move and live a happy life, with not stress and not to worry about the future, I will take care of that.
Sorry, but I needed to rant a little bit
Eltano
No matter what I do, study, present myself, trying to keep up with technology, never is enough for the hiring people, they always want more for less.
I have two boys (26 and 23) they have jobs (thanks to God) and are healthy as well as my wife and myself.
I wants to move and live a happy life, with not stress and not to worry about the future, I will take care of that.
Sorry, but I needed to rant a little bit
Eltano
No sometimes you just get sick of all the racists, nerds idiots from the midwest etc. etc.
Sometimes you just want to get away. I think about it all the time. Living a pure life in some monastery, learning what lifes really about.
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.?
-Charles Kingsley
-Charles Kingsley
purbeast0
No Lifer
- Sep 13, 2001
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I have thought about this, specifically after I came back from Aruba. I checked what it would take to get a job in Aruba, but in all honesty, getting a job over there is near impossible for a foreigner. I'm not saying I would work there forever, but to work there for like even 2-3 years would be awesome.
After seeing the movie Into The Blue, I got this feeling again that I would love to live in a place like that, doing small jobs and living much more relaxed.
After seeing the movie Into The Blue, I got this feeling again that I would love to live in a place like that, doing small jobs and living much more relaxed.
I have to say that I was just thinking about this last night. I live in South Jersey right now, and I LOVE the beach down here and LOVE the laid back life style. There is no traffic, not a lot of busyness, etc. But I stress, because the highest salary down here is $50,000 if that in my field, where in North Jersey (where life is a lot more "busy"), I can make some more money to pay off bills, debt, etc.
I have high blood pressure, and I know its partially due to stress... yet i think most of it is stress of school. I am going to miss South Jersey --- the beach, laid back life style, etc... but the hard part is, I haven't met a lot of friends down here, at least not a lot of CLOSE friends. By moving to North Jersey, yeah I'll have the busy life, but I'll still enjoy my daily runs, and my weekend trips to the beach in the middle of the night where I can just relax and have time to myself. I think a mix of both is good.
Although I did live in Belize for a month, and I LOVED it down there (and by belize I mean the central, 3rd world portino of the country). They are so laid back, no Internet, hardly any working phones, just nature, and the jungle. I absolutely adored it. Hopefully one day I'll be rich so I can go down there for months at a time and volunteer. But in the end, with my health problems, and debt, and all, I think I'm at least partially tied to this current society.
I have high blood pressure, and I know its partially due to stress... yet i think most of it is stress of school. I am going to miss South Jersey --- the beach, laid back life style, etc... but the hard part is, I haven't met a lot of friends down here, at least not a lot of CLOSE friends. By moving to North Jersey, yeah I'll have the busy life, but I'll still enjoy my daily runs, and my weekend trips to the beach in the middle of the night where I can just relax and have time to myself. I think a mix of both is good.
Although I did live in Belize for a month, and I LOVED it down there (and by belize I mean the central, 3rd world portino of the country). They are so laid back, no Internet, hardly any working phones, just nature, and the jungle. I absolutely adored it. Hopefully one day I'll be rich so I can go down there for months at a time and volunteer. But in the end, with my health problems, and debt, and all, I think I'm at least partially tied to this current society.
such places exist and i've been to one of them, where people are laid back, where a wonman can walk at night fearless, where everybody tells you good morning even though you're a stranger, where people eat foods made from they grow, i.e mostly vegetables,fruits,fishes,meat from animals they rear...etc...such places exist my friend, you'll believe only if you've been to one of them, before visiting Rodrigues(the island i'm talking of) i did not believe that a place where the atmosphere is relaxed and laid back etc exists...well i was wrong
KMFJD
Lifer
- Aug 11, 2005
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I'm attempting to do something like that as well, been saving up for almost 2 years now, planning on leaving around the end of september, just sick of the commercialism, me first attitude of our society in general. Anyone know of any good(cheap) travel agents to get me 1/2 way across the world?
I've gotta make a decision soon......I'm giving my self an ultimatum....i will not be living in the northeastern US by the end of 2007. If i havent gone already by that time I'm dropping everything, selling my crap and peacing out.
Mark my words ATOT.
Mark my words ATOT.
JohnAn2112
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- May 8, 2003
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I just laughed at your choice of words...peacing out lol.
Anyway. I am young..and I dont know what I want to do when I graduate. At the moment I am a accounting / Finance major. I dont know if I will like working in an office..and doing some of the jobs that it entails. My uncle seems to have a really good job and enjoys it in finance, but I dont know if I will ever be that succesful.
I am studying abroad in Japan next semester...I might end up being there for a year if I like it. I lived there as a little kid and decided I wanted to go back and see it as an adult. I often wonder like everyone else what it would be like to just go, have fun, and see the world. My question is..how can people do this? Where does the money come from...you cant just get a job in random countries...you need money to airplane tickets...you need a lot of things...
There is no Utopia. Your idealistic view of "some foreign land" doesn't exist.
Many, if not all, quaint civilizations have either been commercialized for tourism (see Santorini, Greece and just about all of the Carribean) or are so far behind the times (see most of central Africa) that living there would simply cause more problems.
Life isn't like some movie where you can get away to some wonderful place and escape all of your problems. To experience peace is something internal. Obtaining wealth, and allowing yourself to be free of all of the burdens a lack of money causes, is one of the easiest ways to obtain peace - which is why so many people take that path.
My impression of you is that you are a well-off (financially) individual, and have always been well-off. I could be wrong, but you fit the mold fairly well.
As they say, money is the most important thing in the world unless you have it.
:beer:
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