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Two years ago, I lost my job.
I have yet to find another one, at least in the traditional way, since.
Additionally, there has never been a time where both my husband and I have had consistent income and we live in Spain, a country that comes with first world prices, second world salaries and [...]
In 2008 Jennifer Hanzlick was laid off from corporate America. When she was let go she did not know what she was going to do, but she knew she had no desire to go back. For three months she searched for her next thing. During this time her mom needed to move her [...]
Konrad Rzasa had a very successful 12 year corporate career working at the executive level for the likes of Raytheon and GE, but Konrad had passions outside of his corporate life. One of which was travel. Konrad liked his corporate life but knew it had limitations. He wanted a change in lifestyle so he could [...]
Carrie McKeegan grew up in New York, went to graduate school in Barcelona and then moved to London for her career. When she and her husband started thinking about having their first child they realized their lives of working 10 to 12 hour days and traveling on the weekends would not be as feasible with [...]
As part of The Delicious Day’s ongoing series of people who work and live abroad, I was excited to chat with Diana about living in Thailand. I have thought more than once (probably more like 43,521 times) about living in Thailand myself and wanted to get an insider’s story.
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I was first introduced to BlogcastFM and Srinivas Rao (Srini) through Betsy Talbot of Married with Luggage. She emailed me a link to his site as she thought I would dig his stuff. As Betsy took the time to email me from whatever third [...]
In 2006, Lara Goldman’s husband was killed in a plane crash. Two years later she was ‘not getting any better.’ Around this time she had a conversation with her sparring partner. It reminded me of a conversation I would have with myself every time I was on a hour plus commute (one way) to work [...]
Dante found a recruiter who was looking for people to teach ESL in various locations around the world. He originally had a job lined up teaching English in South Korea but the paperwork fell through. Then a job came along in Saudi Arabia. The pay was more than in the South Korea and the paperwork [...]
Sheila and I met when she shared her story with me about how she found an asthma cure through an alternative healing technique. As we were chatting she told me the story of her 12 year old niece, Kendra, who had lost her dad, her grandmother and her family dog, Irish.
Her niece Kendra [...]
James Kaiser had written four bestselling books on US National Parks when a friend invited him to Costa Rica on holiday. James fell in love with the place. When he returned home he began researching how he could write a national park guide for his newly discovered paradise. In 2008 he moved there and has [...]
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