It’s not part of today’s topic, but I can’t help but write about it. Maybe I need an interesting little digression here.
The site nomads.com has its own GPT solution, it’s Nomad List GPT. I was interested, so I asked it:
– What’s the difference between you and ChatGPZ?
This is what the little humorist replied:
– Haha, I think ChatGPZ is just a typo, but it sounds good, like I’m an AI from an alternative universe. 😆
I’ve never experienced AI humor in such a direct form.
– If you meant ChatGPT, the difference is that I specifically help digital nomads. I can recommend cities, coworking spaces, I can tell you where there’s good internet, how much life costs, and where there’s a vibrant social life. So if you’re thinking about where to go or how to optimize your nomadic lifestyle, I’m your man… or your AI. 🚀
Where is my job search now?
Over the past few weeks, I’ve signed up for all the sites that came up based on my initial searches.
For this article, I thought I’d ask the AI again to recommend 10 sites for finding jobs that are location-independent. I compared the list with the ones I’ve already registered on and listed the remaining items here:
- AngelList (angel.co/jobs) – Startup jobs, often with remote work.
- Remotive (remotive.io) – A job portal specifically focused on remote work.
- Outsourcely (outsourcely.com) – Full and part-time remote jobs worldwide.
- Pangian (pangian.com) – A global remote job portal and community.
- Hubstaff Talent (talent.hubstaff.com) – A free platform that connects employers with remote professionals.
- FlexJobs (flexjobs.com) – Verified remote and flexible jobs, with a subscription model.
The good news is that I have already met 40% of the recommendations. The last point on the list is especially interesting because it is not the first site I have come across in the field of job search where you have to pay for job offers. I will not deal with these for now.
That is, based on the above list, I will sign up for 5 more systems in the coming days.
Since the end of last week, I have been spending at least 10 minutes a day looking at job sites. This task has become part of my daily routine.
The question of when to start
I am facing serious dilemmas with the search and the timing of this. On the one hand, there is a framework for when I can start in the coming months. In the article entitled Setting the target date, that framework for my job was May, but I did not yet take into account my notice period. The current counter calculates with a notice period of mid-May and the corresponding 3 months of notice period. Today it shows 187 days left. However, after correcting some incorrect information I had last week, I realized that my last day of work could be the end of June, so at this point it’s just a matter of deciding whether I can start my new job at the beginning of July.
Not at the end of August, beginning of September. With this, I could shoot the counter to 132 right now…
With this opportunity, the pressure to find a new job comes first. With the search, I constantly have the dilemma of what to say to the person I’m negotiating with about the new opportunity in February, based on the above? That I can start on September 1st, or if I really want to, on July 1st…
So I feel that I need to get to know the market and the opportunities that arise there now. To collect the keywords, the skills I’m looking for. To think about the training options that arise, and if possible, to complete a few, as I also wrote earlier, in the post entitled A New World. And of course, to be nervous so that the opportunity of a lifetime doesn’t come my way now, causing me a serious dilemma by having to make an unexpected decision.
In my soul, I would already be able to start, but there are still many things to do, so finding a job now would cause a serious headache if I started immediately.
But, not as big as it seems! If I find an opportunity that I can start right away and decide to do it right away, all that would happen is that I would start working remotely in Hungary. Let’s say I become a digital nomad at the beginning of July, but I don’t start by traveling. In August, I will go on vacation with my daughters, and after we get back from there, I will get on a plane and continue my new job in Thailand.
So, in the end, I can continue to cheer myself on to find the new opportunity as soon as possible. It’s not by chance that I deal with it every day.
Over the next month, I will gather as much information about the options available to me as possible so that I can make a responsible decision about whether to resign in March or May.
What have I found so far?
Quite a few thought-provoking opportunities. Quite a few training courses to consider completing. Headlines, directions, offers to revisit later. Country ideas. I found a few opportunities that I would have liked to press the apply button for.
Since the keyword in my life right now is patience, I won’t decide hastily. No matter how much I would like to take action on an offer, I will definitely have to spend the next month waiting.
I found peace within myself.
Today I thought about how I need to be brave in this matter as well. I will probably have to quit before I have a secure job. But, I can’t wait to quit, because then I will always be at a disadvantage in my search. In today’s world, a normal person doesn’t jump off without seeing what they are getting into. I still have to get used to the idea that right now, at the moment of the jump, I will fall towards nothing. But I know that by the time I get there, there will be something there.
Today, for the first time, it occurred to me that life may not follow my calculations. What if my resignation provokes an unexpected reaction? I don’t expect this, but my employer may tell me to leave immediately, without having to serve my notice period.
Fortunately, I know and dare to live by the saying that you have to jump over this ditch when it is right in front of you. I simply enjoy that this possibility has arisen in my mind and now I don’t have to fear it.
Writing
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what a good way I’ve found to write. Writing helps me think through things much better, in a much more structured way. By trying to put into an understandable and rounded form what I work on, what I do, I am forced to think about the world around me much more thoroughly and in this way I can put my affairs in order more seriously than if I were just thinking about them.
Not to mention that at the end of each piece of writing, a piece of my soul can be freed.