<story><title>150 days of living and coding in a van</title><url>https://ruby-on-wheels.github.io/blog/the-first-150-days-of-van-life/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bshimmin</author><text>I think work is the big issue with this sort of lifestyle (leaving aside children, as others have mentioned).  Many remote gigs still want a daily standup, a weekly sprint retrospective and planning session, etc, and none of that really works if you&amp;#x27;re truly nomadic and can&amp;#x27;t really guarantee where you are or how good your Internet connexion is at any given time.&lt;p&gt;The article talks about the flexibility of his lifestyle: &amp;quot;instead of following a fixed plan, I get inspired by random ideas: When the waves are great, I go surfing. When it’s chill and fresh, I work. When it’s hot, I go for a swim.&amp;quot; ... which sounds lovely, but I can&amp;#x27;t see how that works with a full-time job, to be honest.&lt;p&gt;There are, of course, freelance jobs you can do where you have a task to do and a deadline and (hopefully) not too much real-time conversation required... but it may be hard to get enough of that work to support yourself.</text></item><item><author>grecy</author><text>I am doing something somewhat related.&lt;p&gt;I built a Jeep Wrangler into a house on wheels [1], and am driving around Africa for two years.&lt;p&gt;I am freelancing for Magazines, and earning money through my website and social presence. I have not done any coding on this trip, mostly becuase I find it hard to get remote work that meets my flexibility needs - i.e. weeks off-grid and only occasional checkins&amp;#x2F;calls.&lt;p&gt;Last time I drove Alaska to Argentina, doing more-or-less the same thing.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;theroadchoseme.com&amp;#x2F;the-jeep&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;theroadchoseme.com&amp;#x2F;the-jeep&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lucaspiller</author><text>I work in a remote team, and even my co-workers who work from home sometimes have bad internet days. It&amp;#x27;s just something you learn to deal with.&lt;p&gt;In my team there are two others (there are a handful of teams in our company - all remote), sometimes we need to work together (e.g. to solve a bug) but most of the time we are all just working on our own tickets. If we were in an office we&amp;#x27;d be the same - eyes down, headphones on.&lt;p&gt;You just need to trust people enough, to know that they are going to do, what they say they are going to do. Admittedly that&amp;#x27;s hard for some people (the trust and being trustworthy), which I&amp;#x27;d say is why remote work often gets a bad rep.</text></comment>
<story><title>150 days of living and coding in a van</title><url>https://ruby-on-wheels.github.io/blog/the-first-150-days-of-van-life/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bshimmin</author><text>I think work is the big issue with this sort of lifestyle (leaving aside children, as others have mentioned).  Many remote gigs still want a daily standup, a weekly sprint retrospective and planning session, etc, and none of that really works if you&amp;#x27;re truly nomadic and can&amp;#x27;t really guarantee where you are or how good your Internet connexion is at any given time.&lt;p&gt;The article talks about the flexibility of his lifestyle: &amp;quot;instead of following a fixed plan, I get inspired by random ideas: When the waves are great, I go surfing. When it’s chill and fresh, I work. When it’s hot, I go for a swim.&amp;quot; ... which sounds lovely, but I can&amp;#x27;t see how that works with a full-time job, to be honest.&lt;p&gt;There are, of course, freelance jobs you can do where you have a task to do and a deadline and (hopefully) not too much real-time conversation required... but it may be hard to get enough of that work to support yourself.</text></item><item><author>grecy</author><text>I am doing something somewhat related.&lt;p&gt;I built a Jeep Wrangler into a house on wheels [1], and am driving around Africa for two years.&lt;p&gt;I am freelancing for Magazines, and earning money through my website and social presence. I have not done any coding on this trip, mostly becuase I find it hard to get remote work that meets my flexibility needs - i.e. weeks off-grid and only occasional checkins&amp;#x2F;calls.&lt;p&gt;Last time I drove Alaska to Argentina, doing more-or-less the same thing.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;theroadchoseme.com&amp;#x2F;the-jeep&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;theroadchoseme.com&amp;#x2F;the-jeep&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>codecamper</author><text>After having done this sort of lifestyle myself.. I&amp;#x27;ve realized it can be GREAT for finding a quiet place you can really go deep and concentrate. I&amp;#x27;d say it&amp;#x27;s better to keep the job &amp;amp; have a mobile office like this set up so you can disappear to the forest or lake for a week at a time to get serious work done.&lt;p&gt;You need the job &amp;amp; others around to stay in touch with the pace of what is happening and to keep up your friendships.  And then having a quiet place to go, surrounded by nature is also vital.</text></comment>