Have you ever just felt... stuck?
You take the same commute to work, sit in the same office counting down the minutes until 5 o'clock, go home and fall asleep, only to wake up and do it all over again?
My name is Jhana, and exactly one year ago I was doing just that.
I remember sitting at my desk one day just thinking...
Where did I get off track?
I did everything I was supposed to — went to a good college, got good grades, found the corporate job — and yet...
I felt empty.
But more than that...
I felt frustrated!
I had done it all "right", I was on my way towards "success," so why did I feel so unfulfilled? What was I missing?
That's when my boyfriend and I stumbled across digital nomads — what I now call Nomaddicts — people who traveled the world full time, some in tiny, converted vans?!!
I immediately dismissed it...
Either those people were...
a) crazy wealthy
b) travel-bums with $0
c) or influencers with thousands of followers to monetize...
That could never possibly be me.
I wasn't a "trust fund" baby...
I didn't want to live off of nothing just to travel the world like a bum...
And I also didn't have any followers on Instagram aside from my friends/family...
But on my next mind-numbing day at the office, I found myself dreaming.
Dreaming of waking up in a new place each day, of constant adventure, and full time travel.
It seemed impossible.
I had no idea how I could make it happen, but in that moment I also realized...
When I imagined my life one year into the future, it had to look different.
I couldn't live through another year of monotony, rush hour traffic, and worst of all, unfulfilled dreams.
That day I called my boyfriend and told him I wanted to move into a van with him. On one condition...that we take the van to South America.
After that, things moved quickly.
Two months later, I had quit my job, found the van, and was starting to build it out. The only problem? I had absolutely no source of income, and no idea of how to get one.
I started searching frantically, ready to accept any menial job that would just let me scrape by. I didn't care what I had to do, I just wanted my freedom.
But much to my surprise, I discovered there are thousands of companies willing to hire a remote employee for amazing jobs!
Then...all of a sudden...I found the job of my dreams.
It was exciting, fulfilling, challenging, and paid just as much as my office job!
Far from scraping by, I was now going to SAVE money, while still achieving my dream of traveling full-time.
In just 3 weeks...
I went from frustrated, broke, and desperate to stable, confident, and financially FREE.
Fast forward again, and we're now coming up on 9 months in the van.
In that time, I've swam beneath waterfalls in Mexico...