Working online whilst traveling the world sounds like a dream job for many people. But what exactly is a digital nomad? Pete and Supi live as digital nomads.
They travel the world permanently, work on the road and are always online. Their lives epitomize the digital revolution and how it is changing how we work live.
Many people dream of living and working on the road - a dream that has come true for Pete and Supi. Driven by a passion for travel, they set out to escape the dreary routine of everyday life. They want to achieve maximum self-fulfilment without big safety nets and full-cover insurance, in a nomadic world of adventure. Pete is a DJ, so parties and big cities are a defining part of his life, whereas Suparni aka Supi is the opposite; she’s looking for spirituality and awareness. The two show us the huge spectrum of opportunities that the world of the digital nomad has to offer. Despite their fundamental differences, they both earn their living by working remotely. The digital age has made this way of life possible: without the Internet, it would be almost unthinkable. But their lifestyle does have its limits, as is becoming especially evident to Suparni with her plans for parenthood. But it's hard to find someone you love who also loves the same sort of lifestyle, and the constant travel is a big obstacle.
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many people dream of a holiday like this
but for digital nomads a hammock can
serve as workplace they can set up
office anywhere anytime all they need is
a laptop and internet access people
think it's nonstop fun that it's a
permanent vacation but every lifestyle
has its advantages and disadvantages
this particular lifestyle was made
possible by the digital revolution which
transformed the world of work
now there are step out of the comfort
zone and travel few countries of the
world and met all these amazing people
it just opened my mind to whole new
whole new world hey I'm Pete I'm from
Slovakia
I am digital nomad I'm working online
I'm traveling I'm doing what I want and
I'm enjoying my life to the full
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so in Berlin ideally I want to find
another client because Berlin is full of
startups full of these like trendy
companies I want to reach out to them
and see if there is anything that they
can offer that would be Remo
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before coming to digital Nomad hotspot
Berlin Pete Holt's power spent a few
days working in Prague Pete has a 20
hour a week job but no contract the job
earns in just enough money to get by and
to travel as much as he likes
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Thanks and where's the Wi-Fi button you
could just the Wi-Fi password I saw yeah
yeah yeah I think I'm just gonna sit out
my computer here and back yeah Pete used
to have a stable well-paid job in London
booking luxury hotels for wealthy
bankers after ten years in that position
he decided to do some traveling himself
the initial plan was to travel nine
months up to one year and then go back
and work what two and a half years are
gone and I've still got enough money to
keep traveling and I'm making more money
as I travel now so it was the things
have changed yeah the plans always
change and I'm really happy that I
didn't didn't put anything in a plan
that I have to go someday because this
would definitely just limit my more
possibilities yeah
doing macrame macrame all those things
that I've got on me and yeah so bored
all these drinks and at the end I was
actually selling selling macrame in a KO
phangan and I a very important bit is
the Indian spices that I bought back in
Malaysia sort of wherever I travel I I
cook Indian curry for friends where I'm
staying
yeah I found it very freeing when I got
rid of most of my stuff and suddenly
started living just out of one bag beat
is 33 the only additional items he owns
are a few clothes he stored with his
parents in Bratislava people chase chase
chase chase chase and then once you have
it all you find out actually no now that
I have it all it doesn't make me any
more happy and really when I started
traveling there are so how little you
need to be happy things he does need are
his laptop and his smartphone
hi hi I'm sue P I'm a digital nomad in
living this lifestyle for seven years
and I've been a full-time nomad for five
years
whiteside no matter working online
marketing and online business and I also
have my own projects I have a vegan food
blog and I've also published cookbooks
so I have a few strings to my bow and
that gives me the freedom to travel the
world
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- zoo pani noibat zoo pita her friends
is from Cologne and usually spends the
summer in Europe come autumn she heads
to sunnier climates in winter she often
bases herself in Bali another digital
Nomad hotspot from where she works and
travels across Asia
they're meinem next to my own blog I
also work for other bloggers and as a
content marketing manager that means I
edit content for online platforms like
for this online florist I write for them
a little and I also edit and post
content online has also branched out
into coaching she advises other digital
nomads who are just getting started like
Evie take a seat
how are you well I've been traveling for
10 months and it's been really hard I
thought it would be easy that after five
months I'd have managed to be floating
about all hippy like especially because
I want this lifestyle what makes you
think you have to go back because I feel
like I'm losing the pot here that I'll
end up in a rice paddy all old and
wrinkled with no money or no insurance
I've seen your paperwork and from what I
can tell you actually have a very sound
basis to be a digital nomad you have a
podcast so your work is already
completely online
I think your main problem is fear
compared to others we Germans tend to be
very fixated on stability when I go home
I hear the same things all the time when
are you going to be done with this
nonsense you have to come back sometime
we thought this was just a phase and I
say no it's a new lifestyle a lifestyle
that's attracting a growing number of
people it isn't clear how many digital
nomads there currently are but according
to some estimates that could be as many
as a billion roaming the world by 2035
Peter's turned his back on his old life
and embraced a new one he met his
current employer
Adrian on a beach in Thailand so
basically what I'm doing for my employer
or client is I'm collecting data online
on cryptocurrencies at the moment there
are more than 1,600 different digital
currencies out there got a coin here
which is called 10x and basically what
I'm trying to find out is how much money
has one of the first things that I'm I'm
looking for how much money they raised
during this IC o---- initial coin afraid
here we go 10x ICO raises 34 million
dollars in seven minutes
it's crazy 7 minutes 34 134 million
dollars for a project that is just
beginning
peach deals with eight digit sums on a
daily basis his own 20-hour work week
earns him 800 euros a month I can live
on these veggies but not in a year of
most likely it's much cheaper to do so
in Asia so I can do this but at a moment
I'm in Europe because here it's easier
to find contacts for more work
here we go Lucille he's calling us hey
Elysium can you hear me
Pete is training his new colleague
Lucian from Romania the Adrian talk to
you about Syrian labs okay okay okay
cool so I'm gonna just double check with
him I think he's he's asleep already now
because in Tokyo is already night if you
have any questions later yeah shout out
and let me know cried thanks lord have a
good day Joe Joe good the small team
communicate via Skype so digitally the
currency several team members are paid
in is also digital he will get paid now
in etherium my choice of payment was was
euros but one time I got paid in et room
because it was more feasible to get paid
in it Hume it was at a time where it's
sort of like crushed down so I saw it as
a potential to actually get some get
more money out of it so so I got paid in
with you as well too many people crypto
currencies are daunting but for pete and
his colleagues they're perfectly normal
digital currencies are decentralized and
tax enforcement for crypto currencies
was only stepped up in 2016 the cons of
the lifestyle is probably not not having
my my own place
not having sort of like that that place
of security where you can go where you
had a bad day because sometimes
sometimes you might feel tired and
dradle drainable energy oh you will you
might be getting sick and you want to go
back and just lay down and chill
so the pros of the freedom that I'm
getting that I can be wherever I choose
to be freedom of my working hours and
then then then sense of adventure that
every day is different and experiencing
something new I'm seeing new places
moving from city to the city
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soompi is on her way to a co-working
space in orbit
all main towns in Bali have places like
these where freelancers and digital
nomads can rent desks she wants to give
Evy a few tips on networking conditions
section downstairs is the quiet zone
I'll be here in this open area you can
talk and you can just grab a seat at one
of these tables are outside next door
there's also a conference room so you
can use it if you want to give a
presentation or something it has a big
table and a whiteboard can you sit there
do you have to register you can sit
there if you like but if you want to
hold a meeting then you need to register
in advance but in general you are free
to use all the facilities and there's
free mineral water shall we go outside
yeah sure Wow wow this is incredible
just great
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digital nomads can make good money if
they know what they're doing zu P
started out earning around 3,000 euros a
month before tax these days she makes up
to twice that for lots of digital nomads
this is a place where they can work on
new projects and find teams for existing
projects you can work on a whole
different level in spaces like these
it's not like working on some beach all
by yourself it's perfect for someone
like you because you said you wanted to
escape the hamster wheel you can get
together with others who have the same
problems so you won't feel so isolated
when I'm on my own I feel half like I'm
on holiday but I'm not on holiday and
half in some in-between zone where
nothing's clear completely but this
place means you can go to an office
every day while also staying in this
paradise where you can go back to your
bamboo hut in the evenings drink coconut
milk or
to the beach at lunch you can have that
and a day-to-day schedule which moves
your work along it costs approximately a
hundred and fifty euros a month to join
a co-working space like this one for all
her love of adventure zu P also thinks
about securing her future and while she
isn't paying into a German pension plan
she's made other investments in terms of
social security I'm actually in the
process of making some changes I'm
getting out of the German system
completely and looking into other
options I've started investing in other
areas like an organic coconut farm in
Colombia and I'm also building up
additional avenues like putting money
into startups and other small companies
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she's also considering buying property
in Panama and applying for dual
citizenship
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if Zhu P is sure of anything it's that
she never wants to be overworked again
she knows what that's like when she
finished school at 19 she immediately
joined a marketing and event agency I
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worked long hours and had a lot of
responsibility my whole life revolved
around work and then I had a burnout
that was 10 years ago after that I
thought wait okay this can't be it
working for someone else and being
completely drained and you're so young
zu P decided to concentrate on the
things she loved most travelling yoga
and cooking these days she posts a
recipe on her vegan food blog every week
and she also advises people on healthy
eating basically I make my projects fit
in with my lifestyle I think about how I
want to live and then I decide if jobs
or even hobbies are suited to it then I
try to structure everything so that I
maintain a good balance making the dish
is only the first step
photographing it is just as important
soupy makes money through product
placement and links Pete also uses
co-working spaces as a way of making
contacts developing ideas and picking up
work offshoots of Google Daimler and
other major companies have used this
particular space to network with
startups Pete has an appointment with
Sebastian Meltz who runs a placement
agency for digital freelancers
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no no it's it's fall afterwards as well
so basically what I need is to find find
a remote job
yeah so I'm fine doing what I'm doing
now it's not sustainable for very long
time so I really like something more
stable or while there's something more
stable nothing to add to what I'm
already doing
Sebastian chose Pete what sort of jobs
he could point him towards including
writing copy for landing pages and
search engine optimization Pete would
earn up to 50 euros an hour the agency
keeps 20% in Commission are you
registered stood in Slovakia so because
well I've only only start in this
industry and at the moment I'm working
in a crypto world and sometimes are even
being paid in crypto okay so a lot of
people who are digital Romans at the
moment they will wake up yeah we realize
and say oh wow I'm getting older I
actually don't want to travel all the
time anymore I actually want to have
something stable I actually want to know
all right my fixed costs are paid and
then I come in like my insurance my
retirement plan when when people get
older it's like what do you regret the
most and people definitely don't regret
that they didn't pay enough pay enough
insurance at all they they do regret not
doing those like unwise decisions
because like advice for for our society
you know but at the end it's those
experiences that that bring us the most
of the happiness
and like good times in our lives don't
worry as a part-time digital nomad
sebastian also enjoys his freedoms but
he's aware of potential pitfalls
everyone says I can be a digital nomad I
can be that person who just goes there
does a job I have enough money and then
I look for another job yeah if you're
good enough if you have work already if
you know the basics if you have had
already a job if your CV already looks
like that you will get a job again but
if you just start and then you have one
job and then you think it's going to
happen like this all the time and you're
way too naive and it's not going to be
like that and as an entrepreneur and
you're still going to be an entrepreneur
you're going to fall and you're going to
fall deeper and deeper and deeper only
the people who are actually strong
enough to actually get up every time
there is survive and out of all the
people I don't know how the statistics
are but less than 20% actually survive
for the time being
Pete doesn't have comprehensive
insurance he's making do with travel
insurance and concentrating on building
up his income
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Zhu P is several steps ahead of him but
there are always new hurdles to be
cleared you're a resident of a country
when you've been there for more than 180
days a year I don't spend more than 180
days anywhere so I'm not in any country
long enough to belong to that country a
horse I'm German and I always will be
but as I'm not living there I don't feel
I need to be registered and paying taxes
there so at the moment I'm D registering
in Germany and planning to switch to
Cyprus Cyprus is part of the EU and even
though it has an offshore sector its
currency is euros and it's invoices
conform with European standards
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Zhu P is interested in spirituality but
she's also an influencer digital nomads
tend to have a strong social media
presence
indeed the hype surrounding this kind of
lifestyle is partly generated by the
people pursuing it and helping them
sustain it there are more and more
workshops and conferences about digital
nomads along with coaching seminars and
books about how you can become one what
you need and so on nowadays there are
even all sorts of products I've seen a
digital nomad Rasik with a built-in
solar panel so that you can charge your
laptop even in the middle of the jungle
Pete's not interested in having the
right accessories for his lifestyle he's
a purist and he's happy to drift but he
always keeps enough money in reserve to
tide himself over for six months and
what happened in the last two and a half
years I'm really proud of them and is
the memories that are never gonna forget
and I'm super grateful for all the
people that are mad and all the
experiences I had as he changed he
changed my life it got me and got me to
respond and only God knows is like where
I'm gonna go that Pete has a few
long-term ambitions in case he ever
decides to settle down another dream
would be having an having a hostel
somewhere so if I can if I can earn some
money with a crypto and have starting
money then I can go to Asia or some
other is really cheap to buy land with
ideally with local person because
foreigners cannot own the land there and
start your my own guesthouse co-working
Center Center where you can learn arts
and crafts or something like that I
don't know something really creative
which can sort of like bring people
together next week is off to London
where he's organizing a boat party on
the River Thames
after that Pete will be heading to
Portugal and Asia for the rest of the
winter
Zhu P meanwhile is taking things easy on
barley as the Sun sets she gets down to
work when it's evening in Bali it's
morning in Germany and her clients need
her services I wouldn't say that I'll
never go back to Germany
Never Say Never right right now I can't
picture it
but who knows how I'll feel when I get
older judging by other people's
experiences you eventually want to
settle down a bit but I can't say yet
whether that will mean staying in one
place for me nor whether that place
would be in Germany or Panama or barley
or Portugal I'm not looking that far
ahead just yet
she's living the dream almost
as fingers about a year ago I began
thinking about having a relationship
again but then I noticed that I was so
deep in this lifestyle of being two
months here and two months there where
if you do meet someone you're basically
leaving the next day so I realized I
need to get more organized about that
also because I'd like to have children
and time is starting to run out I'm 35
so I only have a few years left to find
the right man and it needs to be someone
with a compatible lifestyle or who's
also ready to settle down that's my
dream but for now she still Footloose
and fancy-free next week zu P will head
to Tonga in the Pacific to dive with
whales after that she'll move on to Fiji
to knuckle down to some hard work
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