european vacation life
so i turned 24 this week and i think i’m going through my quarter life crisis. but really its more like my four-fifths life crisis b/c i swear i’ll be dead by the time i’m 30.
so anyway, it ocurred to me that if i turned 30 and had only ever lived in louisiana and texas that i should just jump off a bridge. seems like a wasted 6 years to me. so i thought about places i could live in. places like california (hippies and smog), washington (rain), and new england (bland food) crossed my mind. but where else? i started thinking big…
so i’ve never even visited europe much less lived there, but how amazing would that be? find a job developing software and spend my free time traveling the whole continent. (”what are you doing this weekend?” “going to ireland”)
i know some of you might be thinking: “jesus keith, why not just go there on vacation?” but how much can you really soak in a place if you’re only in a city for a day before moving on to the next city for a day ad nausium. imagine how much stuff you could see and do if you were there for an entire year? what about 2 years? all i know is that if i’m ever going to do something like this, now is the time.
i have absolutely no idea about the logistics involved. pretty sure i’d need to find a job first in order get a work visa. one idea i had is to look for work in the UK (aka english-speaking) and travel to the rest of europe. that way my job would be in english and i’d only need to speak other languages well enough to be a tourist. what i’m really looking for is a telecommuting development job. that way i’d just need a laptop and an internet connection.
living sparingly would take some getting used to since all of my extra cash would be put towards traveling, but i think it would be worth it. i’d much rather tell my grandkids about my year(s) in europe than that time when i had a nice car but did the same damn thing in the same damn place.
and who knows? maybe i’ll like it and decide to stay.
where would you live if you moved to europe?
