In 2008, I just quit - leaving my job at a small consultancy, which I really enjoyed. Initially, I was going to move country/head away travelling. But then it a

In 2008, I just quit - leaving my job at a small consultancy, which I really enjoyed. Initially, I was going to move country/head away travelling. But then it actually made sense to hang about for a bit for visa/residency reasons, so I found myself needing some work. Somehow, I ended up with 3 simultaneous contacts, all for essentially foundation clients. Picked up a fourth a few years later. First few months were nuts, working insane hours, but very quickly found a balance. After that, I managed to travel and be a sort of hybrid digital nomad, with a base in one country that I often returned to. I'd spend about six months in the Northern Hemisphere during late Spring and Summer, around four months in Southern Hemisphere for the their late spring/summer - and the other couple bouncing around the tropics. Probably had a 12-24 month runway of cash if needed, but never actually touched any of it. No idea how to hustle for new work. But it kept coming in anyway. Stopped bouncing between hemispheres around 8 years later having settled in Australia. Have now started a company with a co-founder and transitioning more to selling Saas products rather than contracting purely exchanging hours for cash. (I've never been able to get paid purely on value-based pricing)