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How Spending 50 Dollars Changed My Life

From unemployed, angry, and broken to changing my entire world

Sara Burdick
7 min readDec 3, 2023
Georgia street art. Photo by : Sara B

If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are — if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time- Joseph Campbell

September three years ago, I had no income. Before the Pandemic, I had a good job working as a Legal Nurse Consultant, 100% remote. They knew I was living in South Africa, Botswana, and Argentina, and it was no problem.

I mention this because so many Digital Nomads, or Remote Workers, lie to their employees and try to fool their bosses, and more importantly, the IP addresses, you think, a little white lie, well maybe, but also people get fired for lying to their bosses.

Luckily I was not in this position, as I prefer not to lie; I think it only comes back to bite you in the ass 99.9% of the time; honesty in most situations has always worked best, at least in the long term.

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Sara Burdick
Sara Burdick

Written by Sara Burdick

I quit the rat race after working as a nurse for 16 years. Travel and Storyteller. I live in Colombia. https://substack.com/@saraburdick

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