well here is an interesting trend more
Millennials are taking time off of their
stressful jobs to travel a 2018
Millennial survey by Deloitte found 43
percent of Millennials expect to leave
their job within two years so joining us
this morning with the dish to talk all
about it Angie or a digital content
creator of Angie away and you certainly
have had some amazing travels I got to
meet you about a month ago and its
really incredible to see what you have
been able to do in the past 5-10 years
with the help of social media it's made
a huge difference I don't think you
could quit your job and do the things
Millennials are doing now without social
media so let's talk really quickly about
your background because you were kind of
in the traditional world right I was I
worked in travel PR lived in Atlanta
lived in New York did the whole PR
agency thing for almost 10 years and
then kind of realized my job was never
gonna love me as much as I loved it so
what could I do
right how could I translate my passion
into something I wanted to do with
flexibility so I quit my traditional job
which was scary probably without my
whole family like my grandpa who worked
at his company for like 75 years or
something was like there's there's no
loyalty anymore Millennials don't have
any loyalty but you know being at one
job for four years as a millennial was
quite a long time so you know I quit I
quit PR and I traveled around the world
for a year and I was like I'm gonna give
it the old college try and see what
happens now how do you make money doing
that because we see so many people on
Instagram posting these amazing pictures
from Bali from Vietnam from all these
countries in Europe and it's like how do
they pay for this because a lot of us
are struggling you know just to pay our
regular bills absolutely and you know
there's a lot of ways like you could
have rich parents I get accused of that
all the time but I assure you I saved my
own money you know when I worked I
decided you know what was my priority
and eventually my priority was gonna be
to travel and so when I worked in New
York instead of you know fancy apartment
fancy shoes I saved a lot of money and
so then I paid for myself to go around
the world with no intention of making
money initially and I invested in my
website invested in my brand and then
ultimately it paid off several years
later and being in the right place at
the right time starting in 2010
made all the difference in the world I
think now the market is so saturated
when I started there was no Instagram
like we didn't even have that you
couldn't even be a professional
Instagrammer or a professional blogger
so I was on the front of the wave and
that was very lucky for me so now you
have been recognized all around the
world you've been selected for a lot of
you know really interesting
opportunities where do you get it from
Instagram from Facebook what's your
message for me it comes from everywhere
and I think that's one of the most
important things about being an
influencer is to have many many
platforms so being able to come on TV
and talk about things having a great
Instagram following having a blog being
able to write being able to spell all
these things you know you kind of I
think some influencers today who are
just fresh out of high school or college
and think I'm gonna be an influencer
what what do you need but to take
pictures so much more than that and you
have to invest in camera equipment and
computers and there's so much that goes
into it I think you see the people in
bikinis in Bali and think well anyone
can do that but it really it it really
does take work it does so you have to
look at the long-term goal right and
you're gonna have maybe a year to where
you might not be that successful right
you're not gonna make a dime in the
first few years because you've got to
build up a following and because the
market is so saturated with influencers
right now I read an article this week
that said there's 12,000 influencers in
Miami what like how can you you know
everyone's competing for each other
everybody's competing for to work with
different companies so you have to make
a name for yourself and it's very hard
now when there's so many beautiful
people out there on Instagram and now
you're able to make a living off your
social media presence yeah yeah but it
took a long time I quit in 2010 so
anybody who thinks it's a quick way to
make a buck is sadly mistaken
okay well it's certainly not that easy
so to learn more you're gonna want to
reach out to her you can go to our
website which is Angie oh Wacom okay so
ang ie AWA why.com so much information
follow her on social media a wealth of
just knowledge there and it is
interesting to see how you can be
successful you can travel you can meet
some people you can experience so many
cultures without doing the traditional
nine-to-five job
had ingrained into our minds we all grew
up with and you know there's there's new
ways to go about it now if you can do
your job from Bali why not yeah why not
we're all trying to get there Angie or
thanks so much good to see you thank you