how do you fund your travels - /trv/

Anonymous11/05/25, 22:58No.2838074How do you fund your travels?

How do you people get months off at a time to travel? Most employers only let you take off 2-3 weeks in a row. Are you all rich NEETs?

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Anon11/05/25, 23:01No.2838076

my family treats me like shit but somehow is ok paying for me to stay in budget airbnbs while I hike in hopes of somehow turning it into a travel writing career im not rich, there's some sort of rodent or something crawling around stuck behind the fridge or oven in the kitchen of my trailer turned cozy cabin, but you just can be careful with spending, and I only travel domestically

Anon11/05/25, 23:32No.2838080

I just quit my job with $120K saved, going off to Asia while figuring out what to do next. im 26 btw

Anon11/05/25, 23:44No.2838083

i get 5 weeks off a year from my job. i use it for a solid month long vacation + some 3 day weekends

Anon11/05/25, 23:49No.2838084

i live in social housing so i save on rent, then i travel and i play the big shots abroad.

Anon11/06/25, 00:07No.2838087

How much do you want to live the travel life?Are you willing to give up your cushy careercuck benefits to do so? Are you willing to rent a cheap room monthly instead of signing a lease on a spacious apartment? Are you willing to live without a car to avoid the expense of ownership and the hassle of storing it when you're overseas? Are you willing to save 50+ percent of your paycheck every single month?There are countless jobs you can take which liberate you for part of the year. Normies generally don't like such jobs because they don't offer the stable income that your average paycheck-to-paycheck normie needs for peace of mind. But if living the travel life is your goal, they're perfect for you.

Anon11/06/25, 01:24No.2838104

Everyone on 4chan is either really wealthy or dirt poor with no responsibilities and nothing to lose, normie wagies have no place here.

Anon11/06/25, 10:29No.2838231

I just quit and then find a new job once I'm back. It takes ages for someone to actually hire me with all the resume gaps but it does eventually happen. Or at least it did so far.

Anon11/06/25, 10:34No.2838234

It always makes me sad when I talk to Americans on vacation and they ask me how long I'm here for. I say 6 weeks and they are so envious. They say they are here for 1 week. 1 week isn't even worth getting on a plane for, let alone flying half way across the world... You cunts need to sort your shit out. Here was 4 weeks leave a year + sick leave + long service leave. If I save up 2 years worth of leave work won't see me again for 2 months and they can't fire me for it.

Anon11/06/25, 11:00No.2838237

>Most employers only let you take off 2-3 weeks in a row. personally, I can get away with 4weeks at a time and I don't want to travel longer anyway >Are you all rich NEETs? working class :(living and working in Germany helps a lot >35h/week so easy accumulating overtime >overtime can be used for extra days off >33days of vacation per year (matched with public holidays that's ~8weeks off) usually it's 30days but I pushed for extra days instead of salary when they hired me >WFH with 2 office days / week but can be skipped if cleared by manager (mine always does, so easy workations) the salary isn't as high as it could be (~85k€/y as senior embedded dev in defense) but rarely any stress and can't beat work-life balance here

Anon11/06/25, 11:08No.2838238

Save money Quit your job Read Kerouac for positive chi Backpack, volunteer for accomodation and food You can stretch your money far when you have no dependents, not paying rent etc., especially if you do seasonal work every now and then. Met people who have been on the road for years doing this. I am in western europe and spent under €600 last month and wasn’t even as tight as I could be (had nice meals couple times a week and daytrips)

Anon11/06/25, 12:03No.2838247

>Most employers only let you take off 2-3 weeks in a row In America maybe.In Australia, I can work a bit longer each day, so instead of the standard 8 hour day with a paid hour lunch break I can do a 9 hour day with a half hour lunch break, this easily banks up money and legally required (thanks to my labour union) days off per year. This doesn't even include the week we get for for Christmas to New Years or the week during Easter.When it gets cold I usually take the entirety of June or July off and romp around South East Asia, just whatever tickets are cheapest.

Anon11/06/25, 13:31No.2838256

From Australia currently live in Europe, my job is in critical shortage pretty much planet-wide. I own a house home after working hard for a number of years and I now rent it out. So I packed up and moved overseas and got a full time job so I can travel around Europe (made an agreement with my employer so that I can take additional time off, was discussed in interview). When I get back home I will probably work for like 6 months straight making good money, then take like 2 months off at a time and travel for that duration. Rinse and repeat.

Anon11/06/25, 13:58No.2838268

>How do you fund your travels? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contingency_Fund_for_Foreign_Intercourse

Anon11/06/25, 14:42No.2838279

Worked, saved, invested. Now I ain't gotta do shit for quite some time. Fuck brokies.

Anon11/06/25, 14:48No.2838281

I've minimized my expenses, and lived somewhat frugally for my whole life. I eat out once a month, for example, and it costs me $10-30. I have no subscriptions to anything except for car insurance and a water heater.I make $55k after taxes and my expenses are around $30k. Most of what's left over gets invested in ETFs.There is no magic to it. I live by myself and make it happen

Anon11/06/25, 15:31No.2838290

my life was in a fucked position (work and family) but i had an investment property i sold for good profit and used that to travel around europe and asia for a couple of years

Anon11/06/25, 17:29No.2838307

My company lets me work abroad for half the year.

Anon11/06/25, 18:07No.2838310

21k CHF/month income + bonus and stocks, 16 weeks of paid vacation, unlimited unpaid time off, able to work from home/abroad Just don't be a fag and take your autism frogs back to >>>/r9k/ [//boards.4chan.org/r9k/]

Anon11/07/25, 08:58No.2838464

am 25 make 55k a year and have 0 expenses since I live with my parents. usually go on at least 2 international trips a year, one with my parents since they like to go to places like Mexico/ Florida or Hawaii, and will let me crash at their hotel as long as I pay for the flight. Then I will go somewhere unique and travel cheap on my own, eating like 2 weeks of stored granola bars and street food. I get one sick week + two weeks of PTO a year, but I also get unlimited unpaid time off, which i usually take an extra week / 9 days from. Honestly I take as much unpaid time as I can get away with and have been adding a couple more days every year. I've seen co-workers fired who never go anywhere , never take time off and pride themselves on not taking sick days even when they need it. so oh well might as well see our world while I am in the position to. have somewhere between 150-200k in stocks, If I ever am fired I think I will do a world tour.

Anon11/07/25, 14:46No.2838523

Here's how I've done it throughout life >family money >freelance gigs >working abroad >boyfriend >working with a billionaire family, going with them, or going during ample time offIt helps to be me

Anon11/07/25, 17:59No.2838557

As an Americuck who can't take very long off of work, the big thing for me is having a boss that is okay with flex time and working remotely on vacation. If I'm going somewhere for 3-4 days I can work extra hours Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and then can take Thursday and Friday off without using PTO. If I'm going on vacation for a week or two, I can work a bit remotely to stretch how my time I have and make it more likely my request will be approved. Even then, I have very very generous PTO that is not typical and I only have because I went with a firm that prioritized that.As for salary, I just commit a lot of money to traveling. It's one of the biggest expenses in my budget.

Anon11/08/25, 00:39No.2838618

Do any full time travelers here have a home base where they return to for a few months every year? I want to nomad it but I have family and friends that I'd like to see once in a while. Thinking about being a cheapo POS house an hour or so from my home city

Anon11/11/25, 12:10No.2839449

My parents are rich.Fight me, at least I'm honest about it.

Anon11/11/25, 22:13No.2839558

>WFH American tech bro >unlimited PTO >my employer DGAF where I'm at as long as my work is done >places where I've fucked off up to a month and worked 2-3 hours at night before bed: Puerto Rico, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Japan, Koreafeelsgood.jpg

Anon11/13/25, 13:28No.2839981

I get 7 weeks paid vacation a year

Anon11/13/25, 20:21No.2840087

im a bartender and i just work busy seasons then nobody cares if i take like up to 3 weeks off

Anon11/14/25, 03:52No.2840153

Money was never a problem but I only got 2 weeks of vacation for the first 8 years of my career. I also had the chance the trade my 2 weeks holiday pay for 2 more weeks of vacation. After 8 years, I got an extra week. Now I'm a rich NEET, and I've been living in Thailand and traveling to other Asian countries for the past 5 months.Technically am I not a NEET since I'm hitting the gym and earning Spanish and chess daily?

Anon11/27/25, 04:13No.2843890

26yo $400k total yearly comp. been working at a FAANG straight out of college for 5 years. just became a millionaire this month (only investment I do is low risk index funds) Yes I stumbled into this situation and got very lucky

Anon11/27/25, 04:14No.2843892

Does someone rich want to adopt me?

Anon11/27/25, 09:09No.2843979

just steal things, rob people. Don't get caught though

Anon11/28/25, 18:03No.2844362

I got a wildland contractor job but started late in one of the worst seasons for fire in oregon. Still saving 20k about, but was expecting twice as much work and money so I need a winter seasonal job

Anon11/30/25, 03:43No.2844712

>2-3 weeks in a row lol. I get four weeks a year not counting public holidays. I can also take them at half pay and hypothetically get up to 8 weeks off in one block. As long as I give my employer sufficient notice its fine. I'm also not a child, I have an income, that is how I fund travel.