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https://workaway.info

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.

If it helps you get by, there's no opportunity cost lost...

Burnt out/broken/dead people have no opportunities!


>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.

Reminiscent of Heinrich Böll's parable of the fisherman: https://www.becomingminimalist.com/recognizing-happiness/ (this version doesn't presume the fisherman is Mexican - is the original story in German?).


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.


My browser is complaining about an expired or invalid cert



Mine too. Just gotta stick a www. in front of the URL. The cert's apparently only valid for specific subdomains and not the root domain.


How's the legality of this? Do you need a work visa or somesuch?


Don't mention on your way through customs that you're there to work, if that's what you're asking.


In a situation like this, a little discretion goes a long way.


Is this your first foray into something like this?


Yes, and loving it!


Lovely! Where in Italy? Umbria, by chance? (that's where I am from originally)




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