Working for Corporate America - don't let your job be your life

So you're working for corporate America, and maybe you're reading this for travel inspiration because this is supposed to be a travel channel. Do we call them channels here? Well if you can't be secure in how your job is going or where your income is coming from and going - how can you travel and enjoy it completely? I think that's how I'll tie it in.

Lesson 1 for all employees; your employer doesn't care about you. Your direct colleagues might care but in what sense? they care that you show up? they care that you do the job you were hired to do? they care that they aren't pulling your weight? The answer - Yes. The person in charge of your destiny is you. How you measure success is based on you. You know what you want, you need to be in charge of getting it. If you want to be the CEO, you have to figure out how to get there and why.

Do you want to be CEO so you can show others you're the CEO? to make more money? to justify the money you spent on your degree? All that plays into your happiness and your measure of what is success. Sadly, most of the time we measure success with money - because that's how we “buy” happiness but it's a bigger picture. It doesn't mean a million dollars, it just means shelter and food. We don't really need all the things, but with money we can gain shelter and food. How big is the shelter and how expensive is the food, that's the bigger picture.

Success is being able to live the life you want to live. If you spend every penny on travel; and live in the tiniest home or couch surf and that's the life you want - that's success. If you drive to work every day, that's a limiter - you need to be physically near your employer. If you are remote that gives you some freedom. Typically remote means you're working from your home. One spot. Employers are coming around a bit to allow more remote work.

In this great digital age there are still some employers who demand the dreaded RTO - return to office. Why? Some of the companies who's huge success was built off technology are the biggest RTO companies, why? I don't know why. But - also in this great digital age where we can review every key stroke, track IP addresses and such do we really need to live near our employer and not move around while we work? I'm not up to speed on whether a VPN can “hide" your location but you should be able to say - here are my locations over the next week, I've signed the “I'll secure the company property" document so that I won't be leaving my work laptop etc just laying around - and off you go to travel and work. Unless you are customer facing - why would it matter what time zone or hemisphere you are in?

Don't let your job be your life. My job is my means to an end. Earn money, travel. Take on more tasks at work so I make more money so I travel more. BUT - ideally I'm a digital nomad, creating income streams as I go along and create content. I'm not pretending that I'm the next top YouTuber, but I know there are platforms to make money on. If you make a tiny bit on each one that adds up. Maybe I can buy a coffee while I'm traveling.

I'm currently a travel agent - as of about a month ago. I'm doing the training, I'm learning the things. I'm working towards the pivot of ramping up to make consistent income from digital nomad type things. I will book travel for others, mainly cruises- all inclusive of the seas so to speak - and earn the commission to pay for my travel. If the pivot takes a while - that's fine. I'm here for it. I'm posting on YouTube; Instagram; TikTok and now ramping up more on Facebook - all with the name Mom's Travel Team.

The true pivot will be more and more side hustle income, less Nine to Five income. Less restrictions on my time. That doesn't mean less work because being a digital nomad; being self employed is not easy. You put in the work, you are making it happen.

Grateful to other creators that are posting on YouTube so I have resources to learn the editing; Davinci Resolve for Noobs - Daniel Batal is my current favorite - because he is teaching us that even the free version of Davinci has some amazing features! Once I earn a legitimate $300 I'll buy the licensed version.

Thanks for reading.

Travel is always the goal.