I was a cubicle worker for years, making too much money doing too little work during the dot-com bubble. I was not happy with my life, so I took my dot-com sav

I was a cubicle worker for years, making too much money doing too little work during the dot-com bubble. I was not happy with my life, so I took my dot-com savings and left the country to go to a Latin American country to live there, learning the local language. I ended up becoming a professional English teacher and translator there. I made enough money to support myself, and only had to work mornings. One thing I really like about Latin America is how important connections are. People are on the street meeting and talking to each other on a level I don’t see in the US; personal connections have more value there. Now that I am a single father to a young child, I’m back in the states working again, but it’s not the grind it used to be, much less the grind it was back in 1986. With work at home and flex hours being a thing that it wasn’t two decades ago, I can handle work without having the horrible burnout I had before.