Flexible Working Life

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As a freelancer working from home, it can be hard, if not impossible to take a holiday.

Firstly, there’s the financial side of it; when you’re on holiday you’re not working and therefore not making any money. And then there’s also the mental side – the guilt and that frustrated feeling you get.
It’s so tricky. You can take your computer with you, check in at Internet cafes, but then is it really a holiday if you are checking email and work all the time? But then, if you don’t take your computer, will you go crazy from the frustration of total Internet absence?

I think you have to make a firm decision and stick to it, one way or the other. But there is another option: take a working holiday.
Okay, if to you a holiday is lying on a beach all day and only moving for food and drink, then this idea probably sounds like lunacy. But, taking a working holiday gives you the chance to travel as well as earning some money, experience new things and not worry about the bills when your holiday ends.
If you’re a student, Global Choices offers working holiday job programmes which allow you to work for up to four months in your university vacation. And Anywork Anywhere offers some great jobs in some great locations.
I just went on the reviews site and read some of the travel and working experiences and they sound great. Seems there’s all kinds of stuff on there from fruit picking in Kent, to being a conservation research assistant in Kilombero Valley in Tazania. Hmmm, I know which one I’d prefer…