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I was laid off five years ago, and I never found another job. Ended up spending a month doing the Camino de Santiago in Spain, and doing more stuff like swing d
by yawnxyz 5y ago
I was laid off five years ago, and I never found another job. Ended up spending a month doing the Camino de Santiago in Spain, and doing more stuff like swing dancing.
Later on I met someone at a swing dance that I worked on a "side project" for a long time that became our current startup, which has been more meaningful to me than any job I've worked previously. (We're doing health and biotech and save people from horrible infections, but I'm a UX/full stack engineer).
I think that having had a tech job with tons of savings (and living in a cheap city in the South) really helped. Also, for many years I thought that a job was like air, and if you quit or lose your job you start suffocating, but the opposite has been true.
- Lhiw 5y agoWould you recommend doing the Camino? My wife and I are thinking about it.
- hardlianotion 5y agoi certainly do. The Camino has routes from all over Europe and a fantastic set of traditions. The countryside is amazing and ever-varying. I walked sections in September, through Southern France, and at that time, the hostels were full of people with wonderful stories of how they arrived on the trail and what they planned to do next.
- agomez314 5y agoAwesome story! I've been needing an excuse to do el camino. What route did you take and how was it?
- gamerDude 5y agoI did a section of the Camino del Norte. And it was fantastic. In my.mind you've got two choices. The cheap route, which is staying at the hostels where the most people on the Camino go. Or you can live it up, as you'll be jumping into a new town at the end of everyday. We did a mix of both and it was a blast!