I’ve been working really hard to find a sustainable way to make money working from my laptop, and one of my favorite projects so far has been self-publishing smut stories on Amazon. This is something I talked about doing for years, but I just never sat down to write. Let alone, learn how to design…
A few days ago I realized that I am literally living my dream. I had a really rough week where I wasn’t finding any gigs to even apply for, my Fiverr account got permanently disabled (don’t ask), I had my first day without any page reads on Amazon, and the substitute teaching jobs were all…
At the end of September, I quit my day job at a restaurant in New Zealand and committed to working online as a freelancer. I had a buffer, some savings, and 7 months left on my work visa if it all went badly, as well a substitute teaching gig where I could pick up shifts…
Hi, I’m Mandy! Last summer I packed up my classroom and headed out on my one year sabbatical to travel the world. I’ve started referring to it as my Grown Up Gap Year. I had been saving and planning this trip for 3 years, and it has been every bit as wonderful as I always…
Spring break is next week and it could not come soon enough. T and I are taking off for Jamaica this weekend! Bamboo rafts, bioluminescent lagoons, snorkeling, cliff jumping, *all* of the food and fun in the sun. This is the last “vacation” before I start my year of traveling full time. It’s all…
Hello! I haven’t disappeared, I’ve just been working hard and playing hard. It’s a gloomy Saturday morning here and I’m finally taking a break. In the past two months I’ve been able to piece together all the flights for the first 2 weeks of my trip, including the Emirates Business Class flight to Milan on…
It’s been almost a year since my last check in, but don’t let that fool you into thinking that anything about my plans for a working holiday in New Zealand have changed. To the contrary, since January I have started feeling a little bit of fear and nervousness when I think about it. Today, I…
So! I didn’t do a May check in because I just put it off too long and by the time I felt like doing it, the month was half over, and I still haven’t wrote up a post about my amazing time in Mexico. But so much has happened! And on top of that, this…
Happy April! I’ve been back from Mexico for almost a week and getting back into the swing of things. Only 11 weeks left in the school year until I’m finally free for the summer! We are officially in the home stretch. My trip was absolutely wonderful. I will make a post about it at some…
Happy March! I cannot express how happy I am for another fresh start. February was absolutely miserable and today the weather is gorgeous, I had a good day at work, my trip is less than 3 weeks away, and things just finally seem like they might get better again. In February I started I teaching…