If You Had Nothing Tying You Down...

corner of hells · 24-05-2016 08:09PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Nice spot, but would stick near Knightstown. Pubs.

Or Portmagee.
Spent many summers there.

JohnCleary · 24-05-2016 08:13PM

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 · 24-05-2016 08:21PM

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 · 24-05-2016 08:26PM

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 · 24-05-2016 08:29PM

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 · 24-05-2016 08:32PM

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 · 24-05-2016 08:36PM

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

hairyslug · 24-05-2016 08:38PM

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 · 24-05-2016 08:52PM

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 · 24-05-2016 08:54PM

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 · 24-05-2016 09:35PM

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 · 24-05-2016 09:48PM

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 · 24-05-2016 10:00PM

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

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

But things tie you down.

24-05-2016 10:04PM

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 · 24-05-2016 10:09PM

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

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

tomwaterford · 24-05-2016 10:09PM

Grandeeod wrote: »

But things tie you down.

Too much info :pac:

24-05-2016 10:13PM

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 · 24-05-2016 10:41PM

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?

24-05-2016 10:43PM

Reactor wrote: »

What would you do though?

Vipassana. That will sort you right out OP

24-05-2016 10:50PM

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.

Wesser · 24-05-2016 10:55PM

Hi reactor

You have started many threads on topics like this. Time now to take action!! Feel the fear and do it anyway. It's just fear that holding you back. It's time now to just do something!! Nothing drastic first of all, just a few days away somewhere in europe to try taking a plane and seeing another city. Just pick somewhere, don't over think it... And do it! Good luck!

JustAThought · 24-05-2016 11:08PM

If nothing was tieing me down - no risk of ruining a so called career ( if you're anyway good someone will have you when you get back) & if I didn't have to worry about trivial thing like cashflow & underwriting my impracticality:

I'd like to do something totally different but to experience it in 4 seasons /All year - go somewhere wild & beautiful & wildernessy like the Nordic Circle & live with a tribe & heard reindeer way up to the Arctic edge ( but in a warm tent) ; travel in skimobiles & husky teams; and be there when the days are 18/20/22/24 hour darkness & aurea beorolis & stay to survive until the days are endless summers. I'd love to watch the seasons creep in & go from icebergs & glaciers & endlesa icesheets to beautiful wild flower meadows & summer pastures on wild grassy mountains. And build igloos & stay in an icehotel & have money to experience the best of all of it & be able to eat in fabulous wild mad out if the way wierd specialist places & buy all the things I saw & wanted to keep en route - like giant Elk skeletons & boots that would keep you warm in -40'C.

That's what I'd do.

Mec27 · 24-05-2016 11:12PM

Its annoying, I have nothing tying me down but I don't want to move to an anglo country if I'm honest. Anyone ever just packed up and moved to a non english speaking european country without much planning?

FizzleSticks · 24-05-2016 11:37PM

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tomwaterford · 24-05-2016 11:42PM

Mec27 wrote: »

Its annoying, I have nothing tying me down but I don't want to move to an anglo country if I'm honest. Anyone ever just packed up and moved to a non english speaking european country without much planning?

Learn Spanish....huge sections of the most fascinating parts IMO of the world speak it

Mec27 · 25-05-2016 12:01AM

tomwaterford wrote: »

Learn Spanish....huge sections of the most fascinating parts IMO of the world speak it

I'm actually near fluent, I'd love to move to Seville if I'm honest but can't think of any jobs I could get.

tomwaterford · 25-05-2016 12:07AM

Mec27 wrote: »

I'm actually near fluent, I'd love to move to Seville if I'm honest but can't think of any jobs I could get.

Why not South America

How'd do you go about learning a language as it's something I just can't do...

Mec27 · 25-05-2016 12:54AM

I prefer South American Spanish actually(the mainstream SA Spanish is easier to understand imo than the 'real' one of Europe) but just more realistic moving to Spain. Anyway I decided to get away for a month and have sent off a few messages on HelpX which offers accom and food in exchange for you helping out.

massdebater · 25-05-2016 02:08AM

I packed in my job a couple of years ago, sold most of what i owned and lived in a van driving round australia for the guts of a year, working some meaningless jobs along the way. Sold the van earlier this year, done a road trip round ireland, another round eastern canada and now I'm just about to begin a cycle to france for the euros. After that I'm doing another road trip from ireland to mongolia before flying to the west coast of canada to see how i like it there.

None of this was planned before i quit work so my advice, OP, would be to try save up as much money as you can now, pick a 'quit' date in your head, and start dreaming

JackieBauer · 25-05-2016 02:23AM

I'd do Roscommon like Debbie did Dallas

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