Chapter 23 - Digital Nomads: In Search of Freedom, Community, and Meaningful Work in the New Economy
Have laptop, will travel
Most Americans dream of being able to leave their cubicles.
Gallup conducted a worldwide poll that showed that out of the world’s one billion full-time workers only 15% of people feel engaged at work. That means that a staggering 85% of people are unhappy at work.
Digital nomads are people who use the internet to make their living from location independent jobs.
Or, if you ask the American public, digital nomads are hipster millenials who go to places like Thailand so that they can post to Instagram pictures of them sat on a beach with their laptop.
Digital Nomads by Rachael A. Woldoff and Robert C. Litchfield is a sociological study of a group of digital nomads, how they work, and how they live.
It’s an interesting study of Digital Nomads and nomad life. Sometimes it comes across as unbearably smug but it’s still worth reading.
Trust millennials to make something complicated out of basic stuff that people have been doing quietly for years.
They form a clique, …
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