(1247) Listen and work on the Vocabulary Quiz and Comprehension Quiz.
Work on the go - Todd continues talking about his daily life as a web creator living on the road - Listen and circle the correct option. Then work on the vocabulary and comprehension quiz - (1248)
Julia: So talking /
walking of working overseas, how does that work? How do set that mind / kind
of lifestyle up?
Todd: You mean like the nomadic lifestyle?
Julia: Yeah, yeah, when you want to travel and just
be free / three and
Todd: Well, it's interesting. Like I think people
get the wrong idea about working that type of life, being like a nomad. First
of all you're actually not a tourist and in a lot of ways / way you're
not a traveler. Like I actually worked and oddly enough, you know when I was just traveling and just living
/ leaving from city to city and working digitally from / for my
computer, I put in more than forty / fourteen hours a
week. I actually probably put in maybe fifty or sixty because I had so much
time. I had nothing to do usually so I would / could work usually five
to six days a week and usually ten hours per / a day. So the first thing
/think is that you work a lot and because you work a lot, you have to look
for places / spaces that are conductive, conducive I'm sorry, that are conducive for working. So
the first thing you need is you need a hotel or like usually a short term
apartment because it's usually best to say / stay in one place for about
a month and you need a pace / place that has a good desk and a good
chair. I cannot emphasize the importance of a good chair. A good chair is
actually so much more important than cable TV or a nice bed or a pool or
whatever because you're going to sit in the chair all the time. So when I would
travel, I would go to a hotel and the first thing I could / would ask is
can I see...
Julia: The chair?
Todd: Can I see the chairs in the room and if I
didn't like the chair, I'd say like look I'm going to be here / there
for two weeks I'll stay but you gotta get me like a nice / dice chair. So
that was one thing. So usually you want to get like a short-term housing. You look on the internet, you know, two weeks at
a time and usually you can find something cheap / cheaper. You usually
want to be in a major city because you need to have internet and that is the
most important thing. You'd be surprised at what countries have fast internet.
Like Vietnam really fast and you can work wireless from the beach. I used / use to sit on
the beach with my laptop and have high need / speed wireless in some of
the cities in Vietnam.
Julia: Wow.
Todd: Yeah, it's amazing. You know, Thailand,
Bangkok, it's surprising / surprisingly not that fast. So Bangkok wasn't
that fast but if you went to a smaller city like Chiang Mai, the internet wasn´t
/ was really fast.
(1249) Todd talks about his time as a digital nomad, working without a permanent residence.Listen and fill in the blanks:
Julia: What about meeting people? What about like a
_____________ ____________ or just basic human interaction?
____________ does that work?
Todd: ____________ you meet lots of people but there´s a couple ____________
things you need to do. One is I usually ____________
away from anything touristy or where the tourists are ____________ people just assume you're a tourist and nobody will ____________ to meet
you. The best place to meet people ____________ is
a gym. So in every city, I would ____________
to, I would sign up for a gym for ____________
weeks or one month and you always meet people ____________.
So gyms are great, you meet people right after ____________.
You kind of feel like you're in a normal work ____________. Parks, you meet a
lot of people in parks. ____________ go
to where the local people are, maybe a ____________
court or libraries, stuff like that, so usually places ____________ people are actually trying to do
something productive, ____________ study
or exercise or whatever, you meet people.
Julia: That
____________ going to be my next
question. What about your ____________?
How do you maintain a health when you're living ____________
kind of...
Todd: Well,
yeah, you gotta eat well and you gotta ____________.
I did go to the hospital in Chiang Mai because a dog bit me. Yeah.
Julia: Oh,
no. Did you have to____________rabies shots?
Todd: I
had to get a rabies shot and it was ____________
cheap so in most countries healthcare is really cheap. ____________ healthcare is excellent, I mean absolutely
fantastic. And you ____________ Vietnam
it's cheap. You know even in big places____________Taiwan
or Korea, you know, you'd be surprised like it's not that ____________. You just got to go to the
hospital and ____________ sew you up.
Julia: And
language problems? Did you ever have any language ____________?
Todd: No,
usually not. I mean like I lived in Thailand for ____________
years so I can speak Thai but like Taiwan ____________
spoke really good English. I went to Korea, didn't ____________ a word of Korean. I stayed there
for six ____________ working from there
and everybody was so nice. A ____________ of gestures so I got by and actually I ____________ getting
on the plane to go home from Korea ____________ I
realized I didn't know even how to say ____________
and no in Korean or one, two, three, four, ____________
and I was in their country for five weeks, ____________
weeks. So, yeah, the Koreans were very nice.
Julia: Good.
Todd: So have ____________ sold you?
Would you like to give it a ____________?
Julia: Yes, I would but I, my problem is
like ____________. Like if I'm not given
a schedule, if I ____________ have
deadlines, if it's all up to me, I, ____________
know, I'd just spend all day at the beach and ____________
for a massage, maybe do some shopping, go to a ____________ , or something. I can't see myself working when I ____________ like I'm traveling and on holiday.
I don't know.
Todd: ____________, that's the catch.
Julia: The
mindset, I guess yeah.
Todd: Yeah,
____________ the hard part.
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