Originally Posted by
mvallejo
Does anybody work during their tours?
Just curious, as I have seen some blogs where the person has a full time job and tours with a laptop, solar charger, and wireless network card and works while touring.
Unfortunately, my personal situation allows me to only take a week or maybe 2 max off of work at a time. Not to mention a wife and owning pets. I do currently work in the software industry, and work from home, so I'm wondering how feasible working from the road actually is. If only allowing me to do a 3 week instead of a 2 week tour, it may be something worth exploring.
Lol, how do you people take off months at a time to do a tour? I'm really curious. My dream is do tour the pacific coast but I dont ever see myself having time for that.
Answering the second question first ...
For the last decade, I've taken extended time off just about every year. In 2003, I quit my job and toured Australia for 3 months. Since then, I've taken a lot of temp jobs/contract work. Temp/contract work is great because I can choose to work for a certain number of months, and then choose to take a month or more off. In 2009, I moved to Australia which helped too ... Australians get a decent amount of holiday time off. Soon after I got here, I got a lengthy contract position which provided me with about 6.5 weeks of holiday time + stat holidays.
And then Rowan and I lived frugally and saved, and were able to take 8 months off to tour the world in 2012.
As for the first question ...
When Rowan and I left for our 8-month trip, my supervisors from that lengthy contract position asked me if I would be interested in working while on the road. It's easy enough to log on from anywhere in the world. I thought about it for a while, and then declined ... the last thing I wanted was to spend a day cycling or sightseeing, and then spend the evening/night working. Extended travel is tiring enough without adding a day's work in the midst.
Can you bank time?
Where I work now, I've got "flex time" so if I come in a bit earlier, leave a bit later, and take shorter lunches, conceivably I could start banking an extra hour or two a day.