Why I quit my job to travel - How do we afford it? Your questions answered & the Adventure begins!
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- Опубликовано: 6 окт 2024
- YOU ASKED- WE ANSWERED! Why did I quit my job? How do we afford it? What are our plans? Since I left work last week, I've had loads of questions like these all across social media.
I've answered the 6 most common questions and give you some tips to help you do it too, as well as share our plans as our travel adventure begins!
Walking away from a well-paid career was not an easy decision. Time will tell if it was the right one or not but we wanted to take the opportunity we had to change our lives, travel more and enjoy more time together.
As I say on the video, the steps we took might not suit everyone, but I hope there are some tips or ideas which might help anyone wanting to quit work & travel.
This isn't our usual travel video- don't worry, there are plenty more of those to come- but I wanted to take the time to answer all the questions I've been getting about why and how I quit my job to travel.
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In 2017, our family travelled Europe in a motorhome. When we returned, we decided we liked it so much we wanted to do it again! So we traded in the van for a bigger model, quit (one of) our jobs and in 2018 we're heading off to explore Europe again- proper RV living!
We're starting with Germany and then moving on to Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland and many more. We hope you can follow our journey!
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ABOUT US:
British couple with a (mostly friendly) teenage daughter, slowly exploring our way around Europe in our motorhome & with our Triumph Scrambler motorbikes.
We love taking drone videos and vlogging about our adventures.
SUBSCRIBE to follow our travels. We're planning Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Holland, Russia, Estonia, Latvia, France, Germany, Portugal, Spain and much more in 2018.
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THANKS FOR WATCHING!!
Until next time- safe travels.
Wandering Bird Adventures 👍 🙃 #motorhome #campervan #roadtrip
Nobody in recorded history has ever, on his or her Deathbed, declared that they wished they'd spent more time at the office.
So true!! :)
Jane has quit last year, and ended being asked to one back to fill in....soon she will be done forever....i worked 10 hrs a day 6 days a week. Then i got liver cancer and homes then lucky to have liver transplant. My life has never been the same . I thought of all the time i spent working for others.....now i live for me...i am now almost 64....i wish i would have done it so many years ago......now we are selling everything, and living on much less and having so much more. .at one time i owned two homes.....done bye...i dont need all the things i have built in my life....i am now i am free..
That's a fantastic attitude Ken- and I'm glad to hear you're enjoying your life. I think it's so easy to get stuck inside the hamster wheel- and it's so hard to get off!! Hope Jane is looking forward to retiring again!
Wandering Bird Adventures the more you make the more you spend. It’s what the big biz and leaders want. They do not want you free. They want to own you. I realized this over 20 years ago. I got out of debt, and have been debt free. I do not buy unless I can pay for it. No interest allowed me to build my own home, sell it , buy again with money. Keep going . Everything I have I own
Best way to be- not reliant on anyone. Great advice Ken. Thanks. :)
Good man live your dream stay safe
Great video - life is far to short you (and us) are living our dreams - you won't be on your death bed wishing you had more money in the bank, or a bigger house etc. You will be reminiscing about all the fabulous places and people you met. You'll have a huge grin on your face !!!!! Good on you for living out your dream !!
Such a great sentiment and so true! Good luck to you guys too- this year is going to be so exciting!! 👍
ohhhh yes we're all going to be living the dream !!!
I officially retired 5 yrs early from a job I enjoyed doing, but unfortunately my partner who is 10 yrs younger than me had to keep the nose to the grindstone basically to keep me in the lifestyle I’m accustomed too 😉… Fast forward we are now both retired and enjoying life in our camper van... Our wish is that we should have done it sooner but hey ho it is what it is. And to be perfectly honest I don’t miss work one little bit, and even though we’re not massively well off when we can at least go off exploring when we feel like it and not worry about timetables… Life is far too short not to enjoy at least a part of it! …
Excellent story! Adventure on and have fun out there! - Shane
Thanks Shane! Fun is the aim. 😀
I quit my job in September too! Good luck on your journey lovely - so much of this resonates with me!
Fantastic! Look forward to following what comes next for you. 👍 😀
You might live to get the pension, I gave up a £55k job, got a brand new MH and off I went, I got debt free with only phone bill and van insurance to worry about, I rented and just saved ups very hard, I live on a budget, im very happy and very content...I can work one month driving a truck which is enough to last me a the rest of the year, I have a small amount of savings which I leave in the ISA...I have and but what I need and not what I want...Life is way too short to wait...
Wish you all well and Good Luck. I retire in July and I am sooo looking forward to it. No Lost Weekends and Shifts etc. Phil and Juliet.
Fantastic!! Bring on July and all the adventures you will have!!
About to do the same. Have similar feelings for the same reasons as you. Enjoyed watching your video and found it reassuring. Will catch up on your adventures. Thanks for being open & honest. Dave
You're welcome Dave. I think doing anything slightly different from society can be daunting- but so far I'm loving it! Good luck to you.
Nice ones you beat me to it, the rain,fresh air,wind,hills,oceans.........no more stepping out of the same door to face the same place every day . freedom is free keep up the blogs thanks.
So true! More blogs to come for sure. Thanks. 👍
Great and emotional vlog. Sad we won’t see you round work anymore but hopefully we’ll see you somewhere more exotic (not just the NEC next week). Looking forward to seeing all your adventures. Lizzy, Shaun & Bentley x (P.S. we want a sticker!!)
I like the sound of 'exotic' meet ups- that's definitely a plan. And I will come find you at the NEC to give you a sticker. Thanks for your lovely comment. 💕
Genuinely what a great video. As an "oldie" I wish you every success in your adventures and can only say as none of us know what lies ahead of us we should all do the things we want to do while we can. OK some stuff may not work out as planned but better to try than get old and wish you had done stuff earlier in your life while you could. Look forward to future videos on your travels.
Thank you. Really appreciate that. As you say, all we can do is try! Hope you enjoy following along. 👍😀
Good luck to you! Life is so precious, go live it! Just found your channel, we are travel vloggers too!🙂
So true- and very well said! Life is very precious indeed. Welcome to the channel- I'll come and check yours out too! 👍
Ah, thanks very much!🙂
Wow!! ..Good luck, how scary.. what an opportunity though.. Wishing you and the family lots of luck and fun. I look forward to hearing about your drone, motorbike and motorhome adventures.
Yep- it is very scary but also really exciting! Lots more adventures to come that's for sure! 👍
Regrets are chances never taken in life ... and you only get one chance at it! so good for you guys! Look forward to following all your travels and adventures 😘
Thanks Debs- totally agree with you! Bring on the adventures! 😀👍
That is so awesome what you did!!! I’m not sure if I would quit my job...but what I did stating back in 1999 was started traveling and have not stopped...every time I get time
Off we travel out side of the USA 🇺🇸
That sounds amazing- and like a good compromise. We'll see if quitting my job was a good idea or not very soon! 😂
Oh my gosh....exciting and scary all at the same time!! I congratulate you on your big decision, you only live once and there's a big old world out there to go and see. Wishing you the best of luck and looking forward to following your adventures :)
Thanks- really appreciate your support. Bring on the adventures!!
Don't know why - but when you said "i was an ATC" my respect for you went to a whole other level. That really is a hard to give up job and maybe career. You got guts!
Sounds like you’ve worked so hard for your dream and well done for achieving it early 😊 can’t wait to follow your adventures 😁
Thank you! It has been hard work but hopefully worth it. 🙃
Well done you and best of luck. We are all only here once, so better to have a nosey around before we leave.
Take care.........Andy 👍👍
I love that- we will indeed be nosey-ing around. 💕 Thanks for your support.
Life is too short not to follow your dreams so well done and have a great time.
Thanks Chris. Totally agree with that sentiment. 👍
Tough decisions but great respect for you for trying this new lifestyle. Look forward to following your travels!
Thank you 😀
Great video, thanks for the tips. I can’t wait to do the same and get in the road.
Good luck on your adventures! 🙃
New sub here. Looking forward to following your adventures. We are at the show on Thursday. Shame it would have been nice to say hi. Please vlog the show for us. I will be doing. :-)
Awesome- shame we won't see you at the show but thank you for your comment and sub. Just subbed back- great channel and adventures you have! 👍
Black forest must do Andys Pfeffermühle Todtnau English owned and run biker restaurant and bar, best Sunday brunch in the forest 14.oo euro or so ( might have to book for easter ) mountain bike downhill tracy toboggan run and a nice waterfall on the other end of the village .....just follow the bikers :-) I am a brit living in Luzern and can be in the forest in 90 mins... Trying to organise Corfu for Easter but if not ....Black forest it is :-) keep on Rolling :-)
Amazing! Thank you so much- going to check all those out. I'll definitely film them if we get there- sound amazing. Possibly see you out on the roads!!
Tha links are dead on your FB and IG pages .... ?
You probably have this but the app Campercontact www.campercontact.com is the bollocks for parkups in all of Europe the free one is not bad but the Full version is one and a half Costas:-) and is well worth the investment .... cheers
Really? I've just tried them and they seem to be working fine my end. How odd. If they still don't work, I'm wanderingbird.adventures on Facebook & Instagram and wandering__bird (2 underscores) on Twitter. Be great to see you on those. 👍
I was looking at this but haven't got it yet! Brilliant, will try it out. Thanks again Bill- so much information! 👍👍
Hi very informative and inspirational vlog. Wishing all the best with your adventures and looking forward to following your travels. P.s We are at the NEC tuesday so will say hello if we spot you. x
Awesome!! I'll save a sticker for you! Thanks for your lovely comment- it's a bit different talking to the camera instead of shooting beautiful scenery. Took some getting used to! 😀
that's some inspiration there, thanks for sharing :)
You're very welcome. Pleased you enjoyed it. 😀
Marvellous! Jobs are such an out dated concept..! We actually 'work' on the road but it's hardly a job and whilst we both loved our jobs before we quit, we've opened up a tonne of new doors and our lives now are completely unrecognisable. We were nowhere near as organised as you mind! We just sold up and left!
Thank you. I'm glad you guys have done it and are doing so well- that's great inspiration. I think with a kid we needed to be a little more organised- it's one thing denying her takeaway... quite another to not be able to feed her at all! 😂
Wandering Bird Adventures oh I don't know... You'd find out how resourceful she is!
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Thank you for Sharing, I'm just about to be made redundant , 2020 March, Our plans are too to go travelling for a few years. I'll be following your videos etc to see how your getting on. Have a great time maybe we'll bump into each other on some camping site some day. Good luck.
And good luck to you too!! Let me know how it goes.
Super exciting, i've subscribed to followed your travels :) We've just started a travel blog too! We're on our 5th episode and are currently in Australia!
Awesome. Welcome to the channel. 👍 Hope you're having better weather in Australia than we are in the UK!
Have Fabulous Adventures .. I'll be following you on FB.
Thanks Kathryn- and might I say Fabulous name.... that's exactly the way I spell mine. 👍😀 Thank you for your support- I appreciate it.
Well done you👍
We're doing the same but we're a lot older and don't have dependent children (now we say no! we haven't got it).
Scary jumping off the ladder coz you just don't know how you're going to feel 😕 Enjoy. x
Thanks! It's been a year now and going ok so far!! :)
Been looking through your old videos. It's interesting that you managed to do this and take a year off and leave your job. Do you work as of yet or still managed to be off? I am trying to be a minimalist but my wife finds it tricky. I would like to try and use school holidays more as even though I am off my wife is at work so can't use the time. I think it would be amazing to use the whole six weeks to be away. Our mortgage is our limitation but again I would like to move somewhere a bit smaller but not managed that yet.
Best of luck to you! Let me know when you're coming to the states to ride moto bikes with me. :)
Hopefully back end of 2019.... although we might be doing Iceland first so maybe 2020. But we're on our way- promise!! 😀
Great video keep chasing your dreams and taking risk #inspiration
Thank you :)
Much too Young to retire, why not try the sabbatical for your adventures, then if you want to carry on then you would have a better idea for your life ahead ? I was made redundant at 45 as a highly qualified Electrcal Engineer, good not get another equivalent position, but redundancy package paid off the mortgage and when I reached 50 could draw on my private works pension, then I retired and started the adventures with Motorhoming. Is it too late to train as a pilot ?
Not to mention paying for all your own training. Totally agree- who'd want to be a pilot anymore!
Hope you're enjoying your motorhome adventures.
As a petrol head I'm wondering what car you are in... I've been watching you for the last couple of months as I'm a big biker and was wondering how to take my bike with me. You've answered that question, thanks.
You'll love next weeks video- we rode Trollstigen on our bikes in Norway- spectacular road!! There's a teaser on this weeks video to whet the appetite. My car is an XK- it's an old model but I love it. :) Let me know what you think of the biker road!!
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