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Keep in mind that lying to your employer can open you up to legal repercussions. And it can also open your employer to same.

VPNs, however implemented, can be detected, and the average person will not maintain a secure set up in the long term. Your OPSEC needs to be perfect all the time, your employer only needs you to slip up once.

By all means “just go” but accept it carry’s a significant amount of personal risk, including financial.

Keep in mind there is nothing wrong with going home occasionally. The idea that you “have to” keep travelling is nonsense, head home for a week or two, see your friends/family, refresh and then go back out. Or, set a shorter goal and re-evaluate, such as plan to go for 2 moths and if it feels right, keep going for another 3 etc.

If you feel you can’t return home etc, I’d examine why you feel that way. Doesn’t have to be a bad thing, you can have your reasons, but make sure they are positive. Some people use digital nomading to put off dealing with issues they have at home. Travel is great, but it won’t fix things you are trying to escape from.

Best of luck on your trip!

Out of curiosity, how old are you? I'm mid 30s and I tend to get that reply from people younger than me. Mindset is important but it doesn't overcome a lot of barriers.

$1m/year is about $83k/month, or about $350/hour (Assuming you work every day of the year). Let's stop there for a second. To earn a million per year, you'd need to earn $30k more, per month, than the average Canadian (My current home country) per year. Your easily in the top 5% of earners, and likely the top 1% if you remove ultra high network. It's rare.

To abstract, I know a handful of lawyers that would bring in a million per, and they are all partners. So they have extensive schooling, which in most countries means debt. The ability to even qualify for that debt would block a huge swathe of people in certain regions. Assuming you did get the loan (Or even better, your parents footed the bill which puts you in another bracket entirely), you then have to have the mindset to become a lawyer and the personality to become a partner to reach a million. Most people with a solid mindset can become lawyers, but not all lawyers have the ability to become partners. However, even an average lawyer could, with a good mindset, reach the $250k/year region.

In my own realm, tech, I can comfortably earn $100k/year from any of SaaS applications, and do. It's $8k/month/app. Easily doable by pretty much anyone. But scaling that to a million is an extremely different prospect, regardless of my mindset. It's not just about adding clients, there a myriad of factors that start to apply. It's non-linear.

Which is basically the core of my point, the further you move up the scale, the less likely it is to happen regardless of how much you want, wish, grind or meditate on it. It's essential probability, you need so much to go right, that your chances are already extremely low. So, to me, it's better to set your sights on achievable goals, achieve them, then calculate your next move. Too many people fail, in my experience, because they set out to win a marathon (Million/year+), rather than get comfortable at 5km first.

Absolutely agree, but I feel it's easier for the average person to think of 100 people in a room and accept that, at best, only one of them has a chance of earning over a million a year, puts goals in contrast. By comparison, earning $100k a year is orders of magnitude more likely.

I wish this sentiment was more prevalent on this sub. If aim for billions, you’re going to come away very disappointment. Even a million/year has a 1% chance of success for the vast majority of people. Focus on what financial independence means for you, in your immediate world, and then grow from there.