If You Had Nothing Tying You Down...

Reactor

Where would you go and what would you do? Id like to travel and Ive never been anyhere, never been on a plane even. Im always fascinated by stories you hear about people leaving Ireland and going to Dubai or the middle of nowhere in Australia or somewhere and start earning good money or just getting by as long as they're doing something interesting.

I just really have nothing tying me to Ireland anymore and would like to do something interesting for once, spent the last 10 years scrimping and saving like Im scraping by with a wife and kids and mortgage but really I have no commitments or anything stopping me from going.

tomwaterford

NZ....looks amazing country....or else Argentina....something about there intrigues me

tea and coffee

If kids had no school ties, I'd like to go to Canada for a few years.
If it was just me? Some island in the Pacific. Tonga, something like that.

It's a wonderful feeling

My family and friends are here and I love them very much. But really when it comes down to it I have no commitments that I'm tied to. I just don't think I have it in me to up sticks and move.
Also I'm very fond of this little island.

Help!!!!

OP what do you work at now?

OldMrBrennan83

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DrumSteve

Japan.

It looks ****ing mental.

I'd be a pro wrestler.

PARlance

Hop on a plane to Edinburgh for a long weekend.
If you don't like it out foreign and flying doesn't turn out to be your thing then you can still get back by land and sea.

You don't want to dive into the deep end with this.

BlondeMoment

Travel, work/live in a different county for a bit.

Id love to sing and act on Broadway, looks fun!

Just a few more years though and im outa here.

Live in South Kerry.

If I had no ties here, I'd think about moving to West Cork. Particularly Beara, so I could look across at South Kerry.

They could not invent the machine that would detect my interest in Dubai. Sunshine, sand and shops selling gold. Not for me.

corner of hells

Valentia Island in Kerry.

Alf Stewart.

If I had nothing tying me down, I'd probably just walk the earth.

You know, walk the earth, meet people... get into adventures. Like Caine from Kung Fu.

SEPT 23 1989

A beachside shack somewhere in the Caribbean overlooking the clear blue sea stop shaving grow my hair one pair of shorts to my name and the BBC World service on the radio for company

MarkY91

I'm in that situation. My brother and I are going away for a month to dubai, Bangkok and Australia. I know it's just a month but I feel like I need to do this. Maybe I'll never what to come back home.

We usually go to Magaluf and **** like that then Las Vegas last year. I'm glad to be going away finally on more than just a boozy holiday.

corner of hells

corner of hells wrote: »

Valentia Island in Kerry.

Nice spot, but would stick near Knightstown. Pubs.

FanadMan

Alf Stewart. wrote: »

If I had nothing tying me down, I'd probably just walk the earth.

You know, walk the earth, meet people... get into adventures. Like Caine from Kung Fu.

And you don't dig on swine either

Alf Stewart.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B34DmsMxUlA

Reactor

Help!!!! wrote: »

OP what do you work at now?

I work in the Pharma industry for the last 10 years but I hate it and even after 10 years I know I still have crappy experience that I would struggle to explain to an interviewer, doubt Ill get a reference either when I leave, only reason Im still there is that I hate being unemployed more, but then when I think about why I always need to have a wage coming in when I have no commitments I cant answer, I have lived such a boring lonely life and its really getting to me now.

I meet people on the buses sometimes who are just out traveling the world, they obviously have no careers and I just wonder how they're doing it...

Reactor

Reactor wrote: »

I work in the Pharma industry for the last 10 years but I hate it and even after 10 years I know I still have crappy experience that I would struggle to explain to an interviewer, doubt Ill get a reference either when I leave, only reason Im still there is that I hate being unemployed more, but then when I think about why I always need to have a wage coming in when I have no commitments I cant answer, I have lived such a boring lonely life and its really getting to me now.

I meet people on the buses sometimes who are just out traveling the world, they obviously have no careers and I just wonder how they're doing it...

I'll tell you one thing OP, moving to a different country won't change who you are or how you feel about yourself

JohnCleary

What age are you? Fcuk the excuses and get on a plane, man!

I went travelling SE Asia when I finished college. We've been going back for 1 month every year for 5 years now. It takes a lot of effort to work the logistics, but we make it work.

Mec27

Its so hard to just get up and go, we have free movement in europe but so many obstacles are in the way if you want to move anywhere besides the UK. I'm trying to find work in Spain or France but its a challenge.

FizzleSticks

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Nekarsulm

I would love to work a summer in the USA, on the custom harvest trail. Basically you get your truck licence and start with a harvest contractor in Texas and follow the combines as they cut their way North to the Canadian border. Then they cut different crops on their way back south as different grains ripen at different times.

Pinch Flat

Emigrate to Canada and train as a bush pilot. Ferrying everything from people, mail etc inn a little single engines Cessna. It'd pay shyte, but I'd be happy.

Reactor

JohnCleary wrote: »

What age are you? Fcuk the excuses and get on a plane, man!

I went travelling SE Asia when I finished college. We've been going back for 1 month every year for 5 years now. It takes a lot of effort to work the logistics, but we make it work.

33 in June.

I cant even decide if I want to travel or not, its just right now I live like Im 40 with 3 kids and a mortgage and carloans, scrimping and saving, and theres no reason for it, its just what Ive always done.

Id love to do one of those jobs you hear about where someone goes to Alaska or somewhere and gets a 50-100k job just because of the remote location and only people with no commitments can work there...

Reactor

Reactor wrote: »

33 in June.

I cant even decide if I want to travel or not, its just right now I live like Im 40 with 3 kids and a mortgage and carloans, scrimping and saving, and theres no reason for it, its just what Ive always done.

I've a feeling you are using travel as a quick fix. Take a good luck at your financial situation. Is your car loan quite high because it's a fancy model? Or are you in a low paying job? Why do you believe that you wouldn't have much success in an interview?

Nekarsulm

Reactor wrote: »

33 in June.

I cant even decide if I want to travel or not, its just right now I live like Im 40 with 3 kids and a mortgage and carloans, scrimping and saving, and theres no reason for it, its just what Ive always done.

Id love to do one of those jobs you hear about where someone goes to Alaska or somewhere and gets a 50-100k job just because of the remote location and only people with no commitments can work there...

Have you been watching "Ice road truckers" ?

JohnCleary

Reactor wrote: »

33 in June.

I cant even decide if I want to travel or not, its just right now I live like Im 40 with 3 kids and a mortgage and carloans, scrimping and saving, and theres no reason for it, its just what Ive always done.

Id love to do one of those jobs you hear about where someone goes to Alaska or somewhere and gets a 50-100k job just because of the remote location and only people with no commitments can work there...

Ugh, fair enough, you've genuine excuses.

Lesson learned.... I don't do kids / mortgages (i'm lucky with that one) or car loans.

Oh some day i'll 'grow up' :pac:

Reactor

No no no, I mean I live like that, I dont have any of those commitments just for some reason I force myself to live that way and I dont know why, its just habit, I want to do something different but Id like to still be earning if possible, just looking for suggestions.

messy tessy

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I'll tell you one thing OP, moving to a different country won't change who you are or how you feel about yourself

I second this.

But in answer to your question I would head to New Zealand and just spend months travelling around it. Have never been but always fascinated by it.

AnonoBoy

If I had nothing tying me down the first thing I'd do would be complain to the management of the S&M dungeon.

corner of hells

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Nice spot, but would stick near Knightstown. Pubs.

Or Portmagee.
Spent many summers there.

JohnCleary

Reactor wrote: »

No no no, I mean I live like that, I dont have any of those commitments just for some reason I force myself to live that way and I dont know why, its just habit, I want to do something different but Id like to still be earning if possible, just looking for suggestions.

In that case, get off your hole and book that flight. Sorry to be harsh, but you'll thank me for it when you're running around a jungle or a beach somewhere in SE Asia thinking "life is great".

The best thing i've ever done is go travelling. I've met people in their 40's (while travelling) that just woke up one day and thought "fcuk it, i'm outta here" and they were never happier.

Trust me, who have you ever met who'se gone off travelling and thought "well, I regretted doing that" ??

Reactor

Does it ruin any chances of getting a proper job when you do it in your thirties when you should be establishing some kind of career though? Im genuinely terrified of that but again, I have zero commitments so I dont know why.

Nekarsulm

Can you take a years sabbatical from your current job?
At least then, you would have the security of work when / if you return, and no worries while away.

tomwaterford

Nekarsulm wrote: »

I would love to work a summer in the USA, on the custom harvest trail. Basically you get your truck licence and start with a harvest contractor in Texas and follow the combines as they cut their way North to the Canadian border. Then they cut different crops on their way back south as different grains ripen at different times.

Two friends of mine done that in recent years....sounds deadly....they'd be pure machinery mad though

Reactor

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Can you take a years sabbatical from your current job?
At least then, you would have the security of work when / if you return, and no worries while away.

Not a hope of getting a sabbatical in current job, think I might be getting let go soon anyway though.

groucho marx

Id give up the job. Drink 1 can a day and enjoy the scenery.

hairyslug

I'd be in the middle East, about 5 years back, after my son was born, I was offered a job in Bahrain, mental money doing what I do over here for slightly less than mental money. My sister was over there and had secured me the role based on me being a white European.

nkav86

Reactor wrote:

I just really have nothing tying me to Ireland anymore and would like to do something interesting for once, spent the last 10 years scrimping and saving like Im scraping by with a wife and kids and mortgage but really I have no commitments or anything stopping me from going.

Get yourself out there, if you're anxious about making a big change, why not start by travelling around Ireland, get your independence and confidence up then head abroad. On another note I'd go on a food tour of Europe, cause I'm a fat b*stard!!

Sh1tbag OToole

I'd like to say that I'd live on an Island off the coast of Galway or Donegal but the bad weather would probably do my head in and I'd head to some place sunny to listen to Danza Kuduro on repeat while I zip around on my shiny white speedboat.

Just not the Algarve, I'd be afraid I'd meet Phil Hogan

JohnCleary

Reactor wrote: »

Does it ruin any chances of getting a proper job when you do it in your thirties when you should be establishing some kind of career though? Im genuinely terrified of that but again, I have zero commitments so I dont know why.

Put it this way.... I employ people (not a lot, but a few). If I saw a gap in their CV, asked what they were up to and they responded with "Travelling round the world", I would see it as a positive thing rather than negative.

Why? Because I know it's out of their system (most likely), hence they would be less inclined to take of travelling 6 months into the job.

Reactor

hairyslug wrote: »

I'd be in the middle East, about 5 years back, after my son was born, I was offered a job in Bahrain, mental money doing what I do over here for slightly less than mental money. My sister was over there and had secured me the role based on me being a white European.

I want to know more about these kinds of things, is it all accounting or oil engineering out there or can anyone with a bit of office experience get a job like that out there?

Grandeeod

If I could offload the wife and kid......

The things I would love to do would astonish you...Honestly.

But things tie you down.

Reactor

Reactor wrote: »

Where would you go and what would you do? Id like to travel and Ive never been anyhere, never been on a plane even. Im always fascinated by stories you hear about people leaving Ireland and going to Dubai or the middle of nowhere in Australia or somewhere and start earning good money or just getting by as long as they're doing something interesting.

I just really have nothing tying me to Ireland anymore and would like to do something interesting for once, spent the last 10 years scrimping and saving like Im scraping by with a wife and kids and mortgage but really I have no commitments or anything stopping me from going.

It is curious how you have linked "interesting" with leaving ireland. It reminds me how recently I learned that we have sent more people to the moon - than we have to the bottom of the sea floor.

And what I learned from that is "interesting" can be where you might learn something - or "interesting" might be where you might impress other people the most.

So if I had nothing typing me down? I would explore my environment and get as much from it as I possibly could. And I can do that just as well here in Ireland as I could do it in the rest of the EU - out side the EU - outside the western world - or simply just outside my own experience.

If you have nothing typing you down then challenge yourself. And hoping on a plane - thats too easy

Mec27

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It is curious how you have linked "interesting" with leaving ireland. It reminds me how recently I learned that we have sent more people to the moon - than we have to the bottom of the sea floor.

And what I learned from that is "interesting" can be where you might learn something - or "interesting" might be where you might impress other people the most.

So if I had nothing typing me down? I would explore my environment and get as much from it as I possibly could. And I can do that just as well here in Ireland as I could do it in the rest of the EU - out side the EU - outside the western world - or simply just outside my own experience.

If you have nothing typing you down then challenge yourself. And hoping on a plane - thats too easy

Yes hopping on a plane and immersing yourself in a new culture/language is a walk in the park

tomwaterford

Grandeeod wrote: »

But things tie you down.

Too much info :pac:

Mec27

Mec27 wrote: »

Yes hopping on a plane and immersing yourself in a new culture/language is a walk in the park

If you say so

I am pretty sure I didn't

Reactor

Deleted User wrote: »

It is curious how you have linked "interesting" with leaving ireland. It reminds me how recently I learned that we have sent more people to the moon - than we have to the bottom of the sea floor.

And what I learned from that is "interesting" can be where you might learn something - or "interesting" might be where you might impress other people the most.

So if I had nothing typing me down? I would explore my environment and get as much from it as I possibly could. And I can do that just as well here in Ireland as I could do it in the rest of the EU - out side the EU - outside the western world - or simply just outside my own experience.

If you have nothing typing you down then challenge yourself. And hoping on a plane - thats too easy

What would you do though?

Reactor

Reactor wrote: »

What would you do though?

Vipassana. That will sort you right out OP

Reactor

Reactor wrote: »

What would you do though?

Me myself? Explore the world around me.

I do not mean that as a judgement. But as an experience. I have met so many people in Ireland that came to Ireland on an exploration similar to what the OP describes.

And I have met people _leaving_ Ireland on a journey like the OP describes.

So I would never judge anyone on their journey. But I would only say to them - perhaps there is more depth where you are - that you could explore. Rather than retreat to another place where you simply hope to find it.