Or at least a slightly modified version, where you fly back to the US to do a short on-site contract gig from time to time, or (more recently) just work remotely when you need to.
Naturally, if you do this 40 years earlier than the folks in the article, you have a much higher tolerance for cheap living. I notice the article mentions nothing about living in a little hut on the beach in some random backpacker paradise for months on end to stretch out the finances. Or of hitching across the sketchier parts of those countries the State department advises you not to go to (though if they did, they'd probably get a lot fewer worried emails from their parents, so maybe that's an upside).
But yeah, as tech folk, we get the ridiculous three-fold advantage of being able to do 100% of our job remotely, being able to deliver measurable results from short (ie., sub-3-month) engagements, and commanding a somewhat higher rate (ie., 3-10x) than pretty much anybody else with the same amount of flexibility.
I find myself dangerously close to slowing down in my old age. (I actually bought a couch yesterday.) Hopefully some of the rest of you lot will get out there and take my place!
I do very much the same as you alluded to here, the only difference being that I am in tech project management (cue a gasp!) so remote pm roles really don't appear that often so I tend to do 3-6months contracting then head off somewhere cool for month or so.
This year I've managed to hit Australia's East Coast for a month, do central America for a month and take the best part of a month off for the Olympics. I call it itchy feet syndrome!
Or at least a slightly modified version, where you fly back to the US to do a short on-site contract gig from time to time, or (more recently) just work remotely when you need to.
Naturally, if you do this 40 years earlier than the folks in the article, you have a much higher tolerance for cheap living. I notice the article mentions nothing about living in a little hut on the beach in some random backpacker paradise for months on end to stretch out the finances. Or of hitching across the sketchier parts of those countries the State department advises you not to go to (though if they did, they'd probably get a lot fewer worried emails from their parents, so maybe that's an upside).
But yeah, as tech folk, we get the ridiculous three-fold advantage of being able to do 100% of our job remotely, being able to deliver measurable results from short (ie., sub-3-month) engagements, and commanding a somewhat higher rate (ie., 3-10x) than pretty much anybody else with the same amount of flexibility.
I find myself dangerously close to slowing down in my old age. (I actually bought a couch yesterday.) Hopefully some of the rest of you lot will get out there and take my place!