- So many people want to do it
and it's not for everybody
so I want to tell you the 11 reasons
why you shouldn't do it.
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This Wednesday, I'm in my sister's
new beautiful home in Minnesota.
So this week, I want to tell you the 11 reasons
why you should not travel full time.
And I know that sounds ridiculous
but so many people want to do it.
And it's amazing and wonderful
and obviously I've chosen it.
And for me the negatives are outweighed by the positives.
But it's not for everybody.
So I want to tell you the 11 reasons why you shouldn't do it.
There's a huge difference between what you see
on social media versus what you actually see.
So behind the incredible shot of the girl
in the flowy dress at the top of the mountain.
You don't see the sweaty,
hot hike that you have to do that's humid.
You have your beautiful dress in your backpack
And you have to change.
And find this spot.
And then by the end of the photo,
you don't even get to experience the incredible view
because you've been trying to set up the shot so much.
Every dream job has it's (bleep) parts, right?
I want to do this, and this is
going to be amazing, and I can't wait.
I want to be a veterinarian.
Then you realize that you have to
stick your hand in a...
I've seen this happen, a horse's butt
to, like, feel the baby inside.
My sister's a cop , she wants to help people.
But she's also giving out tickets
and making people not very happy.
In the end, the positive outweighs the negative.
So I love this job and I think it's incredible.
But I'm going to tell you 11 reasons why it's not always great.
There are in no particular order.
I just wrote them down as they came into my head.
You work a lot and people think
that when you're travelling full time
you're not working because you're just out
on that full time vacation 24/7.
Wrong, you are going to be in a cafe,
probably 40 hours a week, if not more, wherever you are.
E-mailing brands, researching your next thing to do.
So you get done working at the cafe,
then you're going to go down to the beach
and work on some content so that you can
post about how great it is living abroad.
Behind the scenes is a lot
of computer work and a lot of cafe time.
Yeah, when you are off your computer,
then you're not in Hawaii, or you're in Nicaragua,
or you're in Thailand and you
get to experience the culture there.
Thing number two is a pretty obvious one, your family.
You miss your family.
Maybe you're in different time zone now
so it's harder to talk to them and call them.
It's hard because you're trying
to be respectful of their schedule
but you're trying to have a schedule.
You're missing holidays, you're missing birthdays.
You're missing baby B being born.
I still sometimes cry about this
and have nightmares about this
and apologize to my sister a lot.
She was in labor, and this was just twice.
I chose to go to Puerto Rico instead
of coming home while she was in labor.
And I didn't understand how
important it was for me to be here.
Going along with that, number three.
Relationships in general.
You become very low maintenance
as far as I don't need makeup
because I'm going to sweat it off.
I can't blow dry or straighten my hair
because I don't have a converter for this country.
But very high maintenance in a relationship.
If you're always traveling, unless you meet someone
on the road who can travel along with you, but even then.
Maybe you have different budgets.
Maybe you have different ideas of what you want to do.
If they're comfortable with a long
distance relationship, that's great.
If you're not, this is going to be very difficult.
Seth and I have done a lot of long distance.
And then when we're together and traveling,
you're together 24/7, you never leave that person.
So the relationships for this gig are intense.
Your partner has to be very, very comfortable
with themselves and has to trust you a lot.
Because you're always meeting new people.
And it's just whether or not your
communication is on to be able to handle it.
I have a whole video about long distance
relationships if you're all like that.
Number four is you're always planning.
Remember the last vacation you went on.
You had to look up flights,
you had to wait for the deals maybe.
The budget and how much it's going to cost, all the things.
And so when you're always moving
and always going to new places,
that's what you're always doing.
You're always looking up flights
trying to figure out where you want to go next,
where you're going to stay and
what you're going to do when you get there.
Can you afford these things?
Which leads to the next point.
Number five is you're on a budget.
If you're going on vacation and you're like,
okay I've got this nice chunk of change
that I'm going to use on flights and hotels and activities.
When you're traveling full time,
you're most likely on a budget.
I went to Australia and I climbed The Sydney Bridge.
250 dollars.
I was on vacation there, I was there for two weeks.
So I was like, okay this is part of my budget.
If I was traveling full time and I was there
there's no way I would have paid 250 dollars.
But if you're actually living in a place
and getting to know the expats and
getting to know the locals sometimes
you get to go on those activities for cheap or free.
In Alaska, I worked in a restaurant
and I went white water rafting for free
because that's what the deal was
if you were up there working seasonally.
Number six, you are always on guard.
Don't want to drink too much for safety.
You might be traveling solo.
You don't have you friends around you.
You don't have your comforts of knowing
the people or knowing the streets
or knowing what's safe.
I always drink bottled beer because
I know how much alcohol's in there
and it's harder for people to get drugs inside.
Number seven, no souvenirs.
If you're traveling to 10 countries,
you do not have time to pack souvenirs,
unless they're like postcards.
You can't get this cute teddy bear
for your nephew or this really great art piece
unless you're going to mail it home
because you're just not going to carry it with you.
I've been to so many countries and
I don't have anything,
I don't have anything from them.
And I'm totally fine with that.
I've got memories and I've got stories
and I've got photos and that's great with me.
Honestly, when I'm on a trip that's just one country,
I'm like (exhales) because then I just have to go
buy souvenirs for everyone and I just think
it's kind of goofy because nobody
understands them as much as you do.
So you bring them home something that's super,
you saw everywhere and there like oh yeah that's cool.
The other thing is your stuff's just all over the place.
A little bit at my dad's house.
A couple random things here at my sister's house.
There's something I need to pick up at Seth's dad's house.
Stuff at Washington in the house.
I've got stuff at Washington in the van.
Just recently I was looking
for my Clarisonic to wash my face.
Oh yeah, it's at my dad's house.
I get here and I'm like ugh it's not here.
I think it's in the van back in Washington and sure enough.
Number 11 is structure.
There's no structure, there's no structure.
Some people love to wake up in the morning,
turn on their coffee maker, get a cup of coffee,
know it's going to be delicious
because they've already chosen the coffee.
Then walk out of their house that they own,
get in their car that they own,
drive to work where they know they have a job,
know they're going to get paid,
and then come home, eat dinner,
relax and do it all over again.
And some people are knocking that nine to five
being like oh well I don't want to be the rat race.
You know that you're going to get paid.
You know that you're going to like your coffee.
You know that your bed's comfortable
because you've chose it, you know you're going to have.
And so it's not a bad thing to enjoy the structure.
When you're on the road, you're always hustling
and trying to find a new sponsor,
trying to figure out content.
You're always working, working, working.
And trying to bring money in instead of knowing
it's going to be there if you just do your job
which leads me to my last and final point.
Number 11 is the differences in cultures and your norms.
Like I said, you might be used to
turning on your shower and having
good water pressure, hot water.
You're used to brushing your teeth, like no big deal.
Putting toilet paper in the toilet and flushing it.
When you go to other countries,
you have different beds every night that you're sleeping in,
maybe in hostels or hotels
or people that you're staying with.
Maybe they're comfortable, maybe they're not.
Maybe you turn on the water and it's cold water.
It's just dribbling or it's like super low water pressure.
Maybe you can't drink the water in the place
so you have to brush you teeth with a water bottle.
Maybe you're traveling in a van
and you have to find somewhere to brush your teeth.
The nearest grocery store is a mile walk away.
In New Zealand and other countries,
there's a switch on the outlet
and you have to make sure that you press on.
Otherwise your stuff's not going to get charged.
Maybe airports, it doesn't matter
if the plane leaves on time.
It might be three hours late, it might not.
It might never come, whatever.
Maybe there's not AC in the airport.
There's so many things that are different
that you have to be able to adapt
and you have to just have a good attitude about it.
People will get really upset when these things
are not what they're accustomed to.
You have to be able to adapt and to just laugh it off.
And just know that that's all part of the experience.
I love it, I think it's great.
But there are definitely some things
that you're giving up or thing's that you're missing.
If you're willing to do all those things, great.
If you're not, find the thing that you're willing
to do all of those things for.
If your passion isn't travel, I don't care.
I want you to really think about
what your passion is and figure out
how to do it and what you have to do
to do that and what you have to give up
to do that because that's a huge part of it too.
This is my little tidbit on the downsides of full time
traveling and like I said, not complaining by any means.
I'm just giving you a heads up on the reality
behind that epic Instagram shot that you see.
Hope that you enjoyed this.
If you did, please subscribe, please like,
and please comment and let me know what you think about it.
Tell me your passion and some of the things
that you have to give up to do it because
I would be super curious to hear that too.
The bonus footage, we went to Leavenworth, Washington
and it is a Bavarian town in the middle of the mountains.
We went for Oktoberfest and it was incredible
and so I'm going to show you a couple clip of that.
We're also going to go back for Christmas.
They do a light show.
Thank you all so much for watching.
I will see you all next Wednesday
and I'll show you all about the meet up with Amber.
We're going to stay in the Raddison Blu
and I'm so excited to meet a bunch of you.
Thank you so much.
I'll see some of you Sunday
and I'll see the rest of you all next Wednesday.
Mwah!
And I'm going to do a super small plug.
I am doing a meet up in Minnesota October 28th.
If you want more information about that,
I'll put the link below.
(upbeat music)
(soft music)
- Come on.
- [Shayla] Come on!
- It's Oktoberfest.
- [Shayla] Ooh, let's go there.
(crowd cheering)
(folk music)
Seth and I got some food to combat all of this drinking
and I got a glass of wine at Oktoberfest.
What'd you get? Polish...
What'd you get?
- Kielbalsa.
- Kielbasa.
- I got kielbasa cause it's really good.
- Polish kielbasa and I just got
a bratwurst and mine was better.
- No, it wasn't.
- Yes, it was.
- No.
- Oh, wow, yeah.