Comments on: Traveling Takes Courage But The 9-5 Grind Isn’t For Punks Either

By: How To Keep Your Travel Blog Running When You're Not Traveling | Be A Travel Bee

Mon, 10 Jan 2011 17:00:46 +0000

[...] Whether it’s an appraisal or a rebuttal, take that comment-turned-blog post and share it with your readers. I read a guest post earlier this year by Steve Wade on Art of Backpacking where he expressed his opinion that traveling is the easy way out. Before I even finished the first paragraph, I felt a fury energy being released from my fingertips to the computer screen. The end result was a novel-length- comment-turned-blog post entitled, Traveling Takes Courage But The 9-5 Grind Isn’t For Punks Either. [...]

By: Everyone Can’t Travel | foXnoMad

Everyone Can’t Travel | foXnoMad — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 09:13:01 +0000

[...] travel regularly or travel long-term are stuck in the 9-5 “grind”. They can’t escape their jobs and while that’s true for some, it’s a broad generalization that doesn’t take [...]

By: craig zabransky

craig zabransky — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 19:07:00 +0000

totally agree with overcoming the inertia… at times it can seem difficult, but you need to determine what makes you happy in your life and obtain it… and I disagree with your first sentence “i think we can all agree life is hard” to me, life is what you make it…. if you make it hard – well then its hard. it’s a choice. I am not choosing to make it hard. no thank you.

stay adventurous, Craig

By: craig zabransky

craig zabransky — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 19:03:00 +0000

Amen. Find the work you love. Simple isn’t it? It can be. Why do we chose to make it hard?

stay adventurous, Craig

By: craig zabransky

craig zabransky — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 18:58:00 +0000

Monica, I had a job that allowed me to travel plenty. Consulting. In fact I selected all my careers because of my desire to see the globe. (my first out of college, because of two weeks of training in London to my current freelance employment)

And each job, position required effort and work to obtain. I planned for them all – including my one year RTW. My thoughts are people must first need to find out what is their passion, what lights them up inside. When you know, you put effort into obtaining that… (and we all can, yes I believe we ALL can) then you find career bliss or travel bliss – that is the best destination anyone can travel too.

stay adventurous, Craig

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 13:57:00 +0000

Thanks Teresa! I’m glad you like my post. I love living in NYC too. I was born and bred here. This place will always be home. But I also don’t want to work like a slave to be here. It takes the fun and beauty out of NYC if I can’t even enjoy it.

Traveling makes me feel alive and I always feel like I need to get out of NYC because this is the place I work. Not the place I play. I try to see it both ways but it’s hard. I’m still working to bridge to two together.

I think whatever your decision you make at the end as long as you are happy, you’ve made the right choice.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 13:53:00 +0000

That’s a very good point. If you love what you do it doesn’t feel like work at all.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 13:52:00 +0000

Yes, it really irritates me when people like Steve make the comments they do. They just come of as being holier than thou. I, too, am happy for people with a 9-5, a family, children and a nice home to live in. One day, if I’m lucky enough, I’d like to have a family and maybe kids as well. But living that kind of life does not mean I have to give up entirely on my passion for traveling.

Of course it would make it more difficult because I have other responsibilities and obligations but if it’s a family that I want then traveling a little less to spend time with them isn’t the worst thing in the world.

I think people are too judgmental as well and it bugs me when they say I’m too political correct.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 13:48:00 +0000

Yea, you are right. Working a 9-5 could be the easy way out in a sense that you have a stable income but traveling could also be safer the easy way out because you don’t have much obligation to work. I guess it just depends on the person.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 13:46:00 +0000

Wow – what do you do where you get to work for 7 months and travel for 5? I’d love to have a job like that. I would be so much happier than this 9-7 grind and only 10 vacation days.