@mikevallano

What non technical career paths are appealing for digital nomads ?

Hi peeps,

Here is me with a serious question again!

I travel the world alot but always go back to my home country for a couple of months each year. In this period I want to own a car. But because I do not live anywhere it is very difficult to own a car. I cant put the car I want on my parents name because of their salary and the Netherlands being very strict on that.

What options do I have to owning a car?
I know things should be possible just like afrojack who had a car with german license plates!!

Any advice on this?

So there are many occasion people give gifts, Christmas, Thanksgiving, Birthdays, … etc.

For instance:

• Food: you can use it pretty quickly
• Flowers: doesn’t last too long
• Perfume: take a lot of space for a month or two
• Clothes: what if you don’t life them? (eg: a t-shirt, a scarf, …)
• Random stuff: as part of the nomadic life, we want to be minimalist and can’t keep too much stuff

I would say there is short-term, middle-term and long-term goods. And useful / useless / special goods.

So we have a problem, we don’t have infinite storage space (either out of the bag in containers or inside bags).

Attacking the source of the problem:

1. Asking people to give mostly short-term goods, useful middle-term/long-term goods (eg: from a wishlist for instance)
2. Asking for no physical gifts
3. Not going / celebrating those occasions
4. Something else?

I think it’s pretty hard to prevent people from giving unwanted gifts (rejecting a gift is an huge cultural mistake).

Attacking the effects of the problem:

1. Giving gifts to somebody else
2. Re-selling gifts
3. Taking a photo of it and throwing it away
4. Shipping them to some stockage container company
5. Something else?

I personally think that’s one of the biggest thing against minimalism, and ultimately against the freedom of moving quickly.

So, what you you do?

Hi Nomads,
First, I am very appreciative of this Forum, have read a lot of very helpful feedback to questions to previous folks questions.

Currently, landing in Hong Kong in about 2 months with no true Nomad experience other than working remotely, as a US Citizen, from home to a US Bank here in the States. My normal workday is remaining constantly in meetings using a Conference software called “Lync” on my work machine. Usually, i can have Lync call my cell phone with no problem in the US, of course.

Question:
Can I do the same Lync Conference, as above, while working abroad, substituting my cell phone with a personal laptop with microphone wherever I work? (presuming: 1) good internet, 2) Skype/GoogleVoice, installed on personal laptop). Basically, my work laptop would be calling Skype on my personal laptop, right? Can this work, cheaply, for 40+ hours of calls per week? Does Skype have country limitations? How does this work in combination with Google Voice, any cheaper? I read GV only works only for certain countries (HK, China, Thailand are okay). Any folks here know what a 40 hour week costs, on average, having this type of setup (Skype and/or GV, or other combo)? All new to me… will just have to try it, and, let you know, if no one has done it here.

Thanks for any suggestions with this!!!
Dave

Hello everyone,

I’m looking to obtain a couple of credit cards with no foreign transaction fees and keep seeing Capital One as highly recommended by DNs. However, when reading the reviewed for their Venture One card I see that people say the company declines most foreign transactions and that you cannot call they ahead of time to let them know you’re traveling in order to not have the card declined. Has anyone run into this problem?

Thanks!