Why I am all excited to be a Digital Nomad.

Hello I am Neha.

Let me take you back to what I was 6 months ago. I was slogging out the
usual rotational shifts from Monday through Friday as a Training Manager in a corporate. If you
have ever done rotational shifts you will know what I am talking about. For the uninitiated,
rotational shifts are altering ten hour shifts that make your physiological clock terribly twisted like
a ‘Jalebi’ or a ‘Pretzel’. You will not know night from day and will look more akin to the zombies
in ‘The Walking Dead’ series. (Okay, I stretched the exaggeration a bit too much, but you get my
drift ladies!) So by the time Friday rolled by I was like a cruelly wringed out sponge of
exhaustion personified. Getting out of bed was like asking me to do something sacrilegious.
Even when I do get off eventually, going out to get eggs and bread for breakfast will be
someone’s day getting ruined, as I would snap at any random passer-by ogling at me or the
grocer asking too many questions. My grocer doesn’t talk much these days …I wonder why? (I
think it’s me. Wink! wink!) I bet he thinks of me as the only person in the neighborhood with a
foul mood all the time.

Gawd! How did I become this person with a fixed scowl in place of that million dollar smile my
grandma used to talk about? I could no longer picture that girl who used to jump at every
weekend trip out of town, or to grandma’s village or the yearly holiday trips to other states of the
country. All throughout my college days, my friends and I just needed lame excuses for
weekend getaways. And my favorite hobby was reading up travel blogs and pinning incredible
destinations on Pinterest as my next trip.

Then came the Grim Reaper named ‘Career’ and all things went downhill from there.
Sometimes I kick myself real hard for not even giving Travel or Tourism a thought as a
profession. One mundane Monday, during a coffee break is when I came across a term ‘Digital
Nomad’ in an advertorial. A Digital Nomad is someone who doesn’t have a fixed address home
and travels, leveraging technology and the internet to work remotely and make money at the
same time. You experience extended travel without having to look for jobs at physical locations,
or take a break in your travel to get a job to fund your adventure.
In a short, crisp way it is No Home + Travel + Remote Work = Digital Nomad. This was it!!
This was my calling!! I got hooked!!

So now I needed a well executed plan to make this dream a reality. After coming back from
office I invested two hours every day learning SEO wizardry and web development and took up
a foreign language course. I was too determined to back out now. In the fourth month, I quit my
job and I started giving away some of my stuff to friends and family, and selling off potential
ones that churned out money. The rest of my humble possessions, I donated. After 6 months I
saved up a pretty sizeable amount of money, a backpack with a load range of 10 kg, a fully
functioning website and several online training projects with a bunch of Japanese expats, I was
ready to embark on my new odyssey of Digital Nomadism.

My parents were so cross with me and even contemplated a psychiatric evaluation of me in
case I had gone loco. So to relieve some of their misery I assured them that a yearly visit to the
house would be a strict ritual that I would practice and stay for a month with them. The only
thing they requested was that even if I travelled solo, I should be part of a group tour as I was a
debutant in this mysterious job that I was to be baptized in.

Women Special Tours, an agency that specializes in ladies only travel, recently released a 15
day tour for a small group of ten entrepreneur women to a trip to Japan. I grabbed the offer all
excited and terrified, both at the same time. When the day came, my fears just dissipated the
moment I met my fellow travelers who were all excited for me when I told them what I was about
to do. This gave me all the more courage and confidence and much steelier grit.
It is day fifth and we are in a village named Inakadate, famous for “Rice Paddy Art”, called as
“Tanbo Art” in Japanese. Here they grow masterpieces with rice. Using dozens of varieties of
rice as their color palette, locals gather to plant each new masterpiece, taking inspiration from
local geography and Japanese folklore.

The farmers created a spectacular and extraordinary art form through strategically planting
various colored rice plants to create beautiful murals so complex and intricate that can only be
appreciated from an elevated view. It was so breathtaking and ginormously incredible, that you
are in awe of what the human mind is capable of. I knew then what I could possibly do to be a
successful Digital Nomad. I welcomed my unconventional work+travel lifestyle with open wide
arms.

About Women Special Tours: Would you like to go for a ‘Ladies Only Trip’ which is full of fun,
excitement, games and unforgettable experiences? Then you are looking for us. If you have any query or you want us to share your travel stories at our blog, contact us atToursWST@gmail.comor +91 –
9810555106.

About the Article Editor: Kimberly Jane Thomas is a Blogger, Writer, Communications Trainer, avid music buff and loves literary fiction; but more than all these, she loves to listen to the animated conversations of her kids. She considers life a blessing in the guise of challenges. She wouldn’t have it any other way. You might meet her someday during one of our tours.

Please note: Above story is a fiction work of the author. However; we are committed to creating similar kind of emotions, experiences, and stories for our women travelers. We hope one day you will also be traveling with Women Special Tours.