A site that lets you find hosts who will trade room and board in exchange for two to five hours of labor per weekday. Mostly located in beautiful/wild locations around the world.
I'm currently doing three months in Europe hopping from place to place using Workaway. For instance, right now I'm at a hobby farm on top of a mountain in central italy. Super laid back. And gorgeous. Imagine the most picturesque idyllic farm you can... I'm finding that the rewards in mental health are more than sufficient to justify the astronomical opportunity cost.
>I'm finding that the rewards in mental health are more than sufficient to justify the astronomical opportunity cost.
The opportunity cost is that obiefernandez is not working to earn money? Or not studying to improve their income? Earning money to be able to spend it later on things like overseas travel.
I just meant the opportunity cost of less billable hours in the day. My paid work is as a consultant with an hourly rate, so as I get a sense of how many hours less per day I'm spending earning money in order to live this new lifestyle, there's also a price tag attached.
Yes, but you should also ask "if I instead kept working all these extra hours as a consultant, would I be OK, or would I hate my life, be stressed, perhaps burnout and lose customers, or even have health implications"?
With these questions in mind it's not as straightforward to say "if I didn't live this new lifestyle I'd make billable hours consulting".
You also need to think the reverse "opportunity cost" playing into your consulting gig life in the mid/long run.
One not doing what they like to let off steam, could in the end lose gigs or family (e.g. due to drinking, substance abuse), or even hurt their health/life (depression for one).
Wow I had no idea something like this existed. I think this is something I should do, I've been flirting with the idea of escaping the city life and doing something physical, I don't think office work fulfills some of the necessary functions humans require. This will allow me to test out that theory without huge cost.
A site that lets you find hosts who will trade room and board in exchange for two to five hours of labor per weekday. Mostly located in beautiful/wild locations around the world.
I'm currently doing three months in Europe hopping from place to place using Workaway. For instance, right now I'm at a hobby farm on top of a mountain in central italy. Super laid back. And gorgeous. Imagine the most picturesque idyllic farm you can... I'm finding that the rewards in mental health are more than sufficient to justify the astronomical opportunity cost.