For most of the last five years I’ve lived as a digital nomad, working while traveling for months at a time across dozens of countries and five continents. It isn’t, however, an unbroken chain of big beach umbrellas, little drink umbrellas and a few scattered minutes spent working. My father taught me that you’re going to lose 10 percent of your clients each year just through unavoidable attrition. So if you are not finding new work, you’re going to make less money every year. A solid backup plan, multiple regular clients, or both, are really the only safe way to be a digital nomad, wherever you are, whether New York City or Hong Kong.

Source: New York Times October 15, 2019 09:00 UTC