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That's awesome. I can relate to this story. I quit my job around 5 years ago because I was unhappy with what I was doing. I took the planning very serious and paid off all my debt and saved enough money to travel around the world for a year while just working freelance and running various businesses I was starting. After five years though I'm finding that I work way harder and much longer hours than I was working at an office. It's almost impossible to ever open my laptop and not work. I miss that when I got to work, I worked, and when I went home, I didn't. I don't have that luxury anymore. But I have a ton of other awesome perks. I can live anywhere in the world so I generally live in places where the dollar goes a long way. It's been a pretty incredible experience.


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