9
She left her desk job and walked 3,541 miles from Mexico to Canada: ‘Give yourself permission’
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 12 Nov 2025
9 points (90.9% liked)
Humanities & Cultures
3158 readers
31 users here now
Human society and cultural news, studies, and other things of that nature. From linguistics to philosophy to religion to anthropology, if it's an academic discipline you can most likely put it here.
Subcommunities on Beehaw:
This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
That's really cool and all, but even if I give myself permission I don't have the savings from a 6-figure salary to survive while doing something like this.
I'm sure my partner and pets will appreciate me bouncing for 6 months. :P
I'm very much drawn to a semi-nomadic lifestyle, but the financial cost to rework my life into one isn't in my means.
Haha, right? I feel like most people would take the option if we had the means to end our wage slavery.
I will say though, these are the things I've been day dreaming about for the past few years. How to escape the grind