作为数字游牧民族与越南精英共处的卑微开端

Rise of the Digital Nomads Conference – Keynote Speaker Nate

作为数字游牧者的第一年是一个完整的过山车。

在顶峰，那是我一生中最激动人心的一年。在底部，它充满了个人成长和重塑自我。一路走来犯了很多错误，吸取了很多教训和解决问题。我将在这里介绍这些以及我是如何克服它们的。

我了解到，每 1-2 个月搬家最初是令人兴奋的，但过了一段时间，它变得昂贵且令人筋疲力尽。一路上，我发生了很多疯狂的事情。我刚买的笔记本电脑停止工作，当我最大的客户决定改变财务重点时，我的收入损失了一半，我不得不克服语言和文化障碍。

美好时光

在那之后的几个月是惊人的。慢慢爬到过山车最激烈的部分的顶部。周末有很多工作，有趣的冒险。遇到一个女孩，开始花太多钱。忘记了我最初的省钱和偿还债务的目标。这绝对是一个错误，因为下雨天就在拐角处。

日本1个月

我能在大阪附近找到的唯一实惠的地方是一家名为胶囊旅馆 Sai 在日本森口。 大阪郊外的一个小城市。你基本上睡在一个棺材里，只有足够的空间让你躺下和你的手提箱。不过，他们有一些非常好的共享空间。

I would take the train down to a coworking space call “The Links in Kitahama”. It was quite nice for only $167 for the month. They had a really amazing coffee machine, friendly staff but was only open 6 days a week and closes at 10pm.

作为数字游民面临的最大挑战

我回到泰国只是为了坐过山车的底部。所有这些事情都同时发生在我身上。

我最大的客户将我的预算削减至 2%。为了生存，他们必须改变财务重点。

我的借记卡丢了，所以从自动取款机取钱变得非常复杂。

我刚买的新电脑坏了。主板炸了。电脑店说要2个月才能修好。

我很快就预订了去巴厘岛的行程，但由于签证问题，我必须离开泰国。

作为数字游牧者从充满挑战的时代中汲取的经验教训

拥有第二台笔记本电脑 

所以我最终不得不购买第二台笔记本电脑。这实际上并不是一个坏主意。如果一个问题出现问题，它会给你时间和能力来解决另一个问题，同时解决它。当我短途旅行时，我会使用较便宜的笔记本电脑，并将昂贵的笔记本电脑留在家里。

始终可以获取现金

One of the worst things that can happen to you as a Digital Nomad is you get stuck in a foreign country with no money. I suggest that you always need to have access to cash. Even if it’s credit. Savings is best but you need a backup plan if funds dry up or if an emergency happens. If I didn’t have access to credit I would have been screwed at this point. If you can 获得信用额度，它实际上有一个非常合理的利率 compared to a credit card. Usually I use my credit card first and always pay it off within 30days to avoid the crazy interest. But… I use my line of credit todo that if I’m low on funds. Having a line of credit has saved my ass so many times. Gives you time to recover from a crisis.

拥有几个备用银行账户和信用卡

It’s always good to have a backup plan if something goes wrong. If you loose your bank card you can easily switch to another. Unfortunately at this time I wasn’t aware of this and it was super painful to get cash. I had to make a Canadian friend, trust him enough to send them $1000, then ask them to take it out in cash for me. I had to do this a few times till I could get back to Canada.

I now have 5+ bank accounts so I’m always covered. I store them in different wallets in different places. Always have 2 on me and a few stored at home somewhere. Many banks let you set up a saving account for free and allow you to add a Chequing account at any time online. Sometimes one bank card might not work as well due to random technical issues.  

多种收入来源

There’re some pros and cons to this depending how its done. One good thing about having multiple steams of income is if one source dries up you can focus on the other one to pay your bills while you rebuild. I lost just over half my income. If I lost everything I would have been in a much worse position. If your a freelancer you defiantly don’t want to rely on 1 client to provide all your income. That’s dangerous and they have too much power over you.

A trap that people get themselves into though is spreading themselves too thin with too many completely different ideas on how to make money but never get anywhere with them. It takes time to create a source of income so don’t work on creating too many especially in the begging. It can be good to have your main thing. Say freelancing and work on 1 alternative source on the side.

尝试过 Bali Bustle 的共享居住

I stayed at a really cool place called Bali Bustle. Its a co-working office with living space upstairs. It even had a restaurant with room service so I could order food or a coffee up to your room. Had a pool, simple gym, great coworking  space and fast internet.

The only problem was I didn’t that much work todo and I was burning borrowed money. I had no time to waste. I had to work on my marketing plan.

我的数字游牧营销计划

一开始我尝试了很多不同的事情。

在线申请了数百个职位，
致力于我网站的搜索引擎优化，
为 YouTube 制作了视频，
尝试过冷电子邮件公司
but what worked the best was…

呼叫我网络中的某人 每一天

I wasn’t too pushy or salesy, more conversational. Asked a lot of questions, see how they are doing, let them know what I was doing, asked them what they where working on, showed them what I’ve been working on.

对于看门人和销售人员，如果他们按照我的方式发送工作，我会给他们佣金。看门人是有权接触您的创意客户的人。

学习和从事个人项目

我想，既然要烧钱，就应该花点时间学习，为未来做准备。我学习了网络编程：Php、Python 和 JavaScript。做了一些个人项目，并把它们发给了同行。

这两件事最终导致了很多及时的推荐。 2-3个月后，我的生意就恢复正常了。一年后，我一直非常忙碌。

#1 数字游民失败的原因

The number 1 reason digital nomads fail and I have met many people that have failed is…

他们没钱了

许多数字游牧民族 没有创收技能
他们攒了一些钱，辞去了工作，尝试成为一名股票交易员、Youtuber、开发自己的应用程序、尝试成为一名博主。
但不赚钱。 一旦他们跑出去他们就只能夹着尾巴回家。

最坏的情况是： I’ve seen foreigners that even become homeless because of this. Trapped homeless in a foreign country. Which is just absolutely terrible. I’ve seen more foreigners in this situation during the pandemic. Trapped and cant get home with no money. These digital nomads give the rest of us a bad reputation so this is defiantly not good. This is why I stress this so much. Money is even more important as a nomad. You cant just so easily get a job, there is no income assistance for you. Your on your own.