Working conditions on the road for a couple of tech nomads.

Hello, it’s Jacob writing here.  Sorry for my hiatus in entries here, I’ll try and post a bit more often.  Kalli takes such wonderful pictures and posts such great and controversial stuff, so it’s hard to compete! – not that it’s a competition…

So we ended up in one of the most ghetto places yet here in London.  All the decent places seemed taken.  But, we have hot water, super fast internet, and a gym near by so… who’s complaining!?

Interesting office setups abound on the road for us.  Since I never have a “real” office I am always trying to get the best from what I have.  Even if it requires using an empty box of pampers baby dry “megas” to setup the ideal office.

Here are a few items of note in my most recent mobile office.

1. Propped up laptop to reduce neck stain.

2. Wireless keyboard so I can prop up the monitor and still get a nice reach to the keyboard.

3. My Ipad is used here as a double screen so I can get a little more monitor space.  This is an ipad app called “Maxi Vista.”

4. Amazing logitech “dark field” mouse that works on ANY surface; glass, mattress, belly, hairy leg, you name it!

5. For those tech geeks out there I sport a Sony Vaio Z series with solid state hard drive, RAID drives, lit keyboard for night working, and super duper snuper light.

Our office changes every… 1 – 12 weeks, so I always have to improvise.  In this picture I had to “steal” the plastic chair from the hostel next door (over the fence) which is owned by the same folks.  Anyways London is very nice, and we’re having a great time.

On camera – Jacob and Kalli’s business featured…

 

 

Hey everyone,

The Jump Manual is being featured here and if you’d like you can watch us being interviewed:

http://www.getrichclick.com/withclickbank/

and here:

http://zacjohnson.com/how-to-jump-higher-and-earn-75000-a-month-in-the-process/

during the Affiliate Summit when we were in New York.

This might be the last time I will ever agree to be in front of the camera. That’s Jacob’s comfort zone, not mine. I prefer to be behind-the-scenes. We are excited and grateful that Clickbank chose to feature us!

What we do

After running this blog for nearly two years, I think it’s about time there was an “about us” part of the blog. I get the feeling sometimes that people think we’re irresponsible and up to our ears in debt in order to fund our travels. (We travel debt-free.) Or at the very least, that we’re barely scraping by and avoiding reality which we’ll finally have to face when we get home and have to get a real job.

This is not the case.

Jacob and I met at the foreign language housing at BYU in Provo, Utah. You can read our how we met story here.

In the first few months of our engagement and marriage, Jacob wrote and began to sell a book called The Jump Manual. It’s a vertical jump training program to help athletes to jump higher. I was finishing school at the time and didn’t really pay much attention to it. We were living with his parents as he worked on the computer, building up the business. Meanwhile, I got a job in Germany as an editor.

This job was a catastrophe—that’s a story for another day. But when it didn’t pan out, Jacob and I were left to decide what we wanted to do next. We decided to visit his brother Luke in Macedonia. And then our friend Scott in Israel. And the traveling just continued and evolved, and the business continued to grow. I became involved with it as well when it finally hit me that this was better than any job I could find.

When we travel, we usually stay in a hostel until we find a satisfactory apartment. Then we set down roots for 1-2 months. The lifestyle we live in foreign countries is very laid-back. It involves spending several hours on the computer, going to the gym, meeting locals, trying exotic food, sleeping in, and seeing some touristy things…occasionally.

It’s similar to Timothy Feriss’s The Four Hour Workweek. The difference is, we don’t have a home base. We don’t take mini-retirements. We are permanently on the move. It can be really confusing when filling out a form and getting to the part that says, “Address.”

Although we are making about three or four times what we were making when Jacob was working full time in sales and I was a piano teacher, we only spend combined several hours a day working. We can live where we want and visit whom we want. We don’t ever plan on settling down to get a '”real job.” The question remains—will we ever settle down at all? More important than money, it is freedom that we truly feel blessed with. This is the miracle of internet business.

We are passionate about health—nutrition, exercise, and lifestyle, the LDS Church, and traveling.

We are also passionate about internet business and helping others to live with more time and more money. We sell an ebook software so people can do what we did—write an ebook and sell it online.  And we have a CRM for home based businesses.

We are kept very busy doing what we love! Life couldn’t be better. Please feel welcome to comment or ask questions or to meet up with us!