I am who I am... Many a woman have tried to change me hah.



Yes.. My job and where I live does have a lot to do with wanting to up and leave. Its a normal feeling. Unlike many around me though, I don't/won't put up for it. I'm very very conscious that life is an hourglass and no one is going to turn it over and start again once its empty.

A new, more independent and varied career is on the horizon but that will take a while to become established. Hence again for my eagerness to get in the road sooner rather than later...

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Reminds me of the old joke about the vicar advising a bride to be how to remember what's going to happen during the ceremony - you'll walk in, meet me at the front and then we'll do some singing". On the day she comes in whispering repeatedly "aisle, altar, hymn".

Many a true word etc ...

I`m not in the same situation, but too i cant really tell why i want to go. To go soon.

I recently try to write down my feelings into an article, hope that the readers can follow my thoughts. There is too an Translate-Button on the right side.

Wieso zieht es euch in der Ferne?

Like i wrote before i`m 40 now, had done some travels by car - but the dream of an extended trip always gets bigger.

I love my girlfriend, have a good circle of friends, love too my job, my career could have develope much worse.

While my friends are saving money for buying their own house or flat or are renting their luxurary flat, are married and trying to start a famillie with kids -I am just dreaming about travelling extended.

I dont even know if I will like to travelling extended - look like i have to try it.

To starting now has some benefits against to start with 30. I was able to buildup a fun-car beyond reason (powerful but with bad fuel usage and it was expensiv) and i should be able to travel to 1to2 years - without to focus be too much about saving money during the trip.

Disadvantages are for shure, that i dont know what the impact will be to my career, but i should be able to find work again in my profession. And for shure, i dont know what experience i have missed, because i didnt start with the age of 25 and with less bucks.

It may be easier after the trip, when you can entry the working level with no money - and on a higher career level -- as starting with paying an credit and to enter again on less well payed level.

But who know where such a trip ends, maybe you will teach yoga in a hat in india, or you will earning money as a fighter in thailand...

If a dream is strong, it will be still there in some years. But you never know what happens - maybe your girlfriend get pregnant and you had no time for travelling - anymore..

Some questions we only can answer by yourself. And sometimes we have to try it out - without to have an answer.

Maybe one point is important, I read about in many blogs of travellers: if you try to run away from yourself, from something in your life - you are mostly not fast enough.

Surfy

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Debt is a bad idea IMHO. OK, for something you need to survive or makes a better deal fair enough, the endless drudge to pay it off is worthwhile but for anything else it really is a constant PITA. The other thing is it's addictive. I've seen so many people get a couple of grand to buy a second hand runabout to get to their better job. Give the loan providers a few years and people have new cars with the best gizmos but are renting the things on mileage limits with huge payments at the end if you don't take another deal. Run that car 'till it dies and save for the new one and you get all the benefits after the first rung of the ladder.

It's rotten to point it out but you only get one chance with elderly relatives. You can work your **** off and go on your RTW aged 45 with no debt having had all the time you like with people who by then won't be here.

I wouldn't worry about the job thing. If you do something well you can always come back to it in three or even five years. I'm struggling to find a job I'll take right now because the ****ers won't believe I don't want to rule their *****y corporate world and be the next Bill Gates. Burning a few bridges to ditch one suit only makes another one think you must be the dogs doodahs if you can jump ship like that. Talking yourself into a job you can do is easy.

Wait and save IMHO

Andy

The fear of debt is usually worse than the debt itself and there seems to be a lot of credit hysteria on this thread - probably a product of our current political class - but there's no need to become sick with a hallucinatory debt fever.

Properly managed debt and responsible credit doesn't have to mean the end of the world. Virtually everything we see around us was built on a system of credit and debt. Indeed most nations are built on this. Britain has been in debt for almost its entire history:

Being in debt does not mean you are morally or fiscally bankrupt. The best time to borrow is now, during a recession, when interest rates are low and financial institutes are giving it away. If it helps think of it as your civic duty to borrow and spend to stimulate the economy, LOL.

Seriously, we all use credit everyday and the sky hasn't fallen in - we are, by and large, more responsible then the ass hats that played high stakes poker in a rigged system, gambling away our money causing the 2008 crash. It's irrational for an individual to rack up debt when you're already in the red, but you're not and your credit rating reflects this.

Life is short, we don't know what's round the corner. This isn't a dress rehearsal, this is the only life we get so we may as well live it now and live it to it's fullest. Carpe Diem Comrade. Not seizing the day may be worse than the phantasms conjured by debt hysteria.

If you do decide to take out some credit do your research, there is usually more than one way to skin a cat. Shop around for the best deals and do not borrow more than you need or more than you can manage.

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Very well said......

The saddest and most depressed people I know are the ones who take solace in the fact that they have money in the bank.. They always say "I never borrow money" , "I always live within my means"... What they SHOULD say is:
"I'll die dressed in grey and have nothing to show for life apart from the money that I'll leave some ungrateful relative.. Who will spend it on a new car and a RTW trip"

Money doesn't make you happy.... Spending it does.... Just don't spend what you can't responsibly pay back.

Taking a £100,000 loan from a Colombian loan shark is one thing. A manageable debt from a bank that you can pay back early without penalty is another.

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Come to Oz mate, you have a home to come to and great paying jobs a plenty or set up shop in the shed ;-)

That might happen one day.... I have decided. I'm out of here at the end of the year... If I take a loan and keep going I'm not so sure.

To where.. Probably back to South America to start with. Then who knows.

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Did some trips.
Rode some bikes.
Fix them for a living.
Can't say anymore.