Floating Free, 2

✎ Published: 2012-04-16 10:30:30

I transitioned from a traditional job to self-employment, embracing flexibility and freedom in my career. This change allows me to work on various web and app projects, including InstaDesk. I am particularly drawn to locations like Gibraltar, which offers a favorable climate, English-speaking culture, and excellent internet connectivity, enhancing my new lifestyle and work opportunities.

Floating Free, 2

It has been quite some time since my last dedicated post here, so I decided to take the opportunity to write about one thing that really excites me and that is the major drive of my current life.

I quit my job at my last company and I'm self-employed now, working on various app and web projects for myself or third party companies. One of the more prominent apps is, for example, InstaDesk a Instagram client for Mac OS X. After working in a employment setting for more than 10 years, I longed for more freedom. The freedom to move to any city in the world, the freedom to go jogging in the early afternoon and continue working in the evening, the freedom to go shopping in the morning, or the freedom to work through the night. I longed for flexibility. In the end it was this (and several other personal things) that led to me quit my job and start on my new adventure.

What excites me so much about this, is that I can move to any place and any city anywhere in the world now - as long as it has a good Internet connection.

Take Gibraltar, for example: A small (20.000+ Habitants) city around a rock (which houses Barbary monkeys) that lies right next to the Spanish region of Andalucia but belongs to the English crown. So you get the great southern European climate, the sun, but also the English language, the kind English people, and can walk over to Spain for vacation or visiting the beautiful city of Cadiz. Even more, Morocco is only 15min away by boat. Gibraltar even has it's own airport.

Best of all, Gibraltar has a terrific Internet connection. It is home to many Internet based startups (especially poker companies seem to like it there) and thus has data lines that put the neighboring Spain to shame.

It's opportunities to live in places like these, that makes my current endeavor so exciting for me.