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Tips and Tricks for making working + traveling "work"
Are you working and traveling? What are your lessons learned to make it work? Tools, gadgets tips and tricks welcome! Bonus points for sharing a bit about your context (what do you do, what is challenging, how did you solve the challenge) so it is easier to adopt and adapt your lessons learned.
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Emily Harris
I always work while traveling, just plan all the details in advance. Time management helps with this issue. By the way guys, I want to visit Vietnam, it seems like easy to get a visa https://vietnamvisa-au.com/. Has anyone already been there? If yes, just share your experience and impressions, please.
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I just spent 2.5 years working while traveling, spending most of my time in forests. 🌱
And I lived in an RV for about a year during that time.
The forests are dense on the west coast, so a challenge I frequently encountered was actually having access to the internet. There were often times that I still had access to wireless service through my phone, however. So I would connect my laptop to my phone's hotspot to access the internet. (I quickly learned that it isn't easy to work from a phone when working with large data sets.) Connecting to a hotspot may sound obvious, but I didn't realize that it was something I could do before.
@rrhoover
I've enjoyed it so much. 🥹
Got lost (with some friends from college) in Washington state and stopped at a river:
https://twitter.com/NikkiElizDem...
Just moved to the Arizona desert and it's beautiful here, too!
https://twitter.com/NikkiElizDem...
Get portable laptop stand and external keyboard (learn VIM so that you don't need a mouse unless you do graphic work and actually need it), assume decreased productivity the first few days in a new place. In my experience paying for a coworking is better than trying out caffe's in terms of productivity, give public libraries a shot too.
(Optional) If changing time zone adjust your sleep schedule to match the one of the majority of your colleagues, e.g wake up at 5am or 1pm consistently (if you don't mind giving up night life or having it every day), tend towards over-communicating when you are working asynchronously.