So basically I’ve worked at this job in the US for the past year but my visa ended so I am back in Australia where I’m from. I’ve been working remotely whole I’m back and I’m meant to be working on getting a new visa to go back to the US. I’m kind of the only person at my job that is working remotely right now as everyone is based in the US working from the office. My visa is taking a while to prepare and start, and my boss talked to me the other week giving me some options on what to do which included 1) getting this visa, which will cost up to a few thousand and may take a few months OR I could continue working from home in Australia for the foreseeable future (although I know she would prefer me to go back) I originally told her that I’m leaning more towards going back to the US with this new Visa. However, after some thought I would really want to live a digital nomad life, working from Asia as I love travelling and have solo travelled abit. I want to give it a try and maybe go to Malaysia/ Thailand for a month and work from there. But I’m not sure if I should tell my boss or just go secretly and test it out before making a decision. I also don’t know if this is even legal for me, would I be able to do this without them knowing. Do they need to know legally? Would I need to get a digital nomad visa? Or could I just work they and they just pay me how they normally would?
I went alone when I was 19 for the first time and it exceeded my expectations, everyone I met was so down to do anything and so friendly! Still friends with a few of the people I met and it’s been 4 years since. The good thing is, if u don’t want to talk to people or just wanna hang by urself it’s so easy to do that and then if u want to talk to people and meet people. Just stay at a hostel. People will introduce themselves in the dorms, invite you to hand and chat, you just sometimes have to go up first which is abit scary but basically everyone is on the same boat, travelling alone and wanting to meet people. I loved that I had the freedom to do anything I wanted whenever I wanted. It’s scary in the beginning but as you meet people and hear their experiences it gets easy! Like I was scared to eat alone at restaurants in the beginning but hearing how the other solo travellers were so comfortable doing it, it made it so much easier and I realised there’s nothing to be scared of really. And also something that helped me ease into it was I volunteered to be a English mentor for 2 weeks in Europe in the beginning where I was travelling and I made a lot of friends there which was great cause after the program we would hang out and some people will meet u in other cities if they are also travelling around. It’s soooo worth it!