Small ideas lead to big things

Wow, this is it – I am live on the world wide web!

Today Jobs4Nomads is being officially introduced to the world. What started as a small idea I was fiddling with in my little corner is now a fully operational tool I hope will make the road a little easier to navigate. The road to wherever takes your fancy.

The past couple of weeks I made big progress on my plans, starting by taking the decision to go, for real.  I want to go, I need to go, I am going! I have defined an itinerary and contacted travel agents to get the ball rolling on the ticket side of things. On top of getting visas, I also need to renew my passport. Not as straight forward as you would think if like me you are a French girl living in the UK and never bothered to register with the consulate!

So - itinerary  – sorted. How I get there – roughly sorted-ish (not really!). How I will finance all this – very vaguely considered. How to get a nomad job – well this is what this site is about.

I will populate it with the info I gather along the way, and using the powers of my amazingly charismatic persona (… and a nice pretty please…) my aim is to attract other nomads who will also contribute to the content. As the community grows, the information contained in these pages will be kept up to date thank to input from the nomads soon to be or already on the road. No point having the details of a teaching school or bar owner if the teaching school as long since being converted into a day care and the bar into a trendy hairdresser.

Have a look around, and if you find something interesting, spread the work and leave a little hello on the facebook page or send me an email. I promise to reply and give you a fool proof system for winning the lottery every week... OK, maybe not, but I with definitely say hi :)

Bon vent et bonne route!

Introducing... Me :)

Once upon a time, there was a princess... I wish! Being a princess would have been sweet,and I tried to convince my parents, but they were having none of the whole kingdom thing. So I still ain’t no princess!

Instead I am just a regular girl, living a regular life.

Born in the Caribbean, I left home when I was 17 on a one way ticket to France. I had enough of life on the islands and just wanted to see how if was across the Atlantic. After some time in the South of France, I decided to go see what all the fuss was about Australia. So I packed my bags once again, direction Melbourne, but this time got a return ticket – they are pretty strict those Australia Border Agents!

Australia was truly amazing, but as my visa ran out, I had to head back to Europe – they really are very strict those Australia Border Agents! Instead of Paris, I came to the UK and Maidenhead in the west of London is where I now call home. It’s a cute little city, leafy and somewhat sleepy but my flat by the river is the best! Most of my friends are here, my job is here and this is where I think I will settle eventually.

Still, a few weeks ago I took the decision to drop everything and head again for some unknown destination.

Why I hear you ask – why leave a steady job in this tough recession climate, leave my friends, leave a cosy little life in sunny England?

A few things got me to this point really:

1. It’s all doom and gloom at the moment. There is a recession going and all people can talk about are taxes, job cuts and how the Euro will eventually crash down – depressing.

2. I am still not on the property ladder and judging by the rate of house price increase, it will be some time until I get onto that first rung unless I rob a bank – very depressing.

3. I received my pension statement in June and good news – if I keep putting money away at the same level as I am now, when I retire at 60, my yearly pension will be a grand total of… wait for it… £8,000 – aaaaaaaarghhhhhh!!!

OMG!! What on earth happened? Something somehow went horribly wrong and the whole career/homeownership/behaving like an adult thing now looks less and less like the ultimate goal.

After the initial “OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG” moment I realised how far off the point I was – my life is about ME. I chose what I want to do and I do it. As long as it is legal(-ish..!) I should go for it.

And travelling around the globe is part of this life. Discovering new cultures, meeting new people, eating strange things and most importantly – wear my flip-flops all day and play with my toes in the sand. This is who I am.

So here we are, I have decided to drop everything and go see how things on the other side of the planet are. It will be more than likely the same as here – but I want to go see by myself!

First thing first though - Hi everybody, my name is Angela and I would like some help planning my trip of a lifetime.

:)