Hey this is Overpass insights my name is Eric and I make apps now today I'm
coming to you from split in Croatia and I'm trying to do the digital Nomad thing
okay so this week I'm coming to you from split in Croatia for years I mean years I've been talking
about doing the digital Nomad thing I mean that's what I eventually want to do like it used to be
my goals in life were to make Overpass this huge company and I just got run down and then it was
like you know what I want to do I want to do the thing I wanted to do when I was 20 and never did
which is just travel a lot so my so I started thinking could I actually work anywhere I had a
friend that's what she did she said she could work anywhere she's always looking for a coffee shop an
internet connection all that kind of stuff and I was like you know what I could work everywhere
anywhere too but in reality I couldn't I was so dependent on that desktop computer that the
fast internet connection at home the mouse the keyboard the multiple monitors so over the last
few weeks I've been forcing myself to just use my one laptop so I could just you know come out here
for this one week and while the weekends and the evenings I'll go out and explore I'm going to work
throughout the week and I'm really excited about it so I'm just sitting here having breakfast at
uh a beautiful little cafe I'm about to go check out some co-working spaces and um yeah I'm really
really excited about giving this a go so anyway this week the videos might be a bit more I don't
know travel related maybe but um hope you enjoy it you know I'm really really excited oh yeah
and I will let you guys know how it goes you know if I find it difficult you know actually working
you know with just the laptop alone remotely everything like that so this
whole week for me is an experiment to see whether or not the lifestyle I want to live
is actually going to work for me so anyway stay tuned
all right so I'm absolutely loving the weather here see growing up in San Diego this is what the
weather was like a lot of the time right in fact one of them for a last so I grew up in San Diego
and I live in England I've lived in the last 20 nearly 25 years God you know I'm getting so
old anyway so the weather in England we do have nice days but whenever is a nice day in England
you feel like you have to go out and enjoy it and the hate to actually you have to work in
it but like in San Diego it was just you know a nice day was still a school day and a work day
and all this stuff I mean it is in England too but you just have that feeling like I should
be out in this so I appreciate this abundance of really really nice days you know for years
I wanted to move back to San Diego just for the weather and you know I know a lot of people are
trying to escape from there so I'm kind of just enjoying yeah I'm looking for like an
alternative so that's one of the things I thought I'll look at split oh look at Portugal look
at a few different other places and uh it's really really nice here highly recommend it
well I decided to make this a working vacation as opposed to just the you know a vacation I realize
there's a few things I have to do first I have to break my dependency on the big monitors and
the and the keyboard and get used to just working on the laptop that part was easy
it actually got pretty good at it I mean I know developers who just hunch over their
laptop that's all they need but I just got too complacent too comfortable I needed that I need
those extra screens so I think I'm pretty good without those now after the last couple weeks uh
the second thing is I have to figure out where I'm going to actually be working so like a lot of the
stuff I read about the digital Nomad lifestyle is always like coffee shops and cafes right but
you know as a software developer it doesn't really work I mean we don't work in 20 minute
bursts do we we like try to get like a few hours together it does like an ideal situation it's like
three four solid hours of uninterrupted time so so then I was thinking well okay what I'll do
is I'll just work in the Airbnb apartment but then that's gonna be kind of boring so uh last
week I got a tour of wework in London which we don't have any weed Works nearby but I've
never actually worked at a co-working space so apparently there's a pretty nice one uh just a
few miles from the apartment so I'm gonna go check that out now anyway you know working
around other people but not letting them interrupt you you know that kind of stuff
so I'm looking for the works co-working spaces split I follow the GPS to get
here and I can't find the place so hopefully it still exists a lot of
them seem to have closed probably because of covet I'd imagine but
thank you
all right as you can see I found the place I spent about three hours there tomorrow I'm
going to be doing the full eight but I just you know I'm glad I gave myself the extra
time because I couldn't find it getting all signed up and everything like that and
you know what I said about like learning how to use the laptop without an external
monitor without the extra monitor they have desks with extra monitors I don't even need
to didn't even need to do any of that stuff so that's going to be kind of cool
right so tomorrow I'll be working that that full day there in the office so it costs about so
they've got you know all the kind of stuff that you'd expect to need the high-speed internet all
that kind of stuff caused about 80 Euros uh for the entire week so it's gonna be awesome
okay so I went back to the apartment I changed into something a little less sweaty uh so I'm
gonna finish off the day with a sunset boat cruise which should be really nice I
heard about it yesterday and I thought yeah it'll be a good way to end end today it'll be a great
way to end this video so anyway everyone Thanks for liking and subscribing and all that kind of
stuff I hope you have a great week stay healthy stay safe if you could travel do it if you do this
digital Nomad thing give it a try that's it for today I'll talk to you guys again tomorrow
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