
After college, I landed a corporate job in tech sales.
It was exactly what my parents, school, and society steered me to. It had all the bells and whistles...
- A plush starting salary
- An extensive training program
- I even wore a suit every day
Last but not least, we were required to go into a local office.
At the time I was living with two of my colleagues in the same training program. Since the office was an hour away, we had to leave before the sun would rise to get there in time.
In the evening we'd leave late, usually, after rush hour died down, and we were afraid to be the first to leave the office, even if we were done with our work.
There were days in the office where I wouldn't see the sun for the entire day!
It felt like the twilight zone. I walked into the office in the morning while it was still dark, and by the time I left it was dark (literal picture I took of this phenomenon in 2013):

It felt defeating, it felt like a waste of time, and some days I was so stressed about facing traffic, it was all I could focus on while at work.
Then, one day, I woke up to an email that felt like a message sent from God. I read it slowly, wiped the crust out of my eyes, and then read it again.
It said:
"Snowed in. Work from home today."
I rejoiced. That winter in Boston was the coldest and snowiest in a decade. Luckily, because of that, there were many more snow days where we were permitted to work from home. After a while we also finagled with our manager to work from home every Friday, no matter the weather.
But, most weeks after the winter, we were still coming into the office 4 times a week. I craved more.
I was like a junkie... I was addicted from the first taste of remote work.

But here's the thing...
What was initially a buffer for hangover days, where I was grateful to sleep in longer, became a greater opportunity to improve my life. I realized I didn't want to compromise my ability to work remotely for anything and started treating it as if any day it could disappear.
I developed proficiencies working remotely.
Instead of waking up 5 minutes before meetings, I leveraged the 2-3 hours a day I got back from my commute to cook my meals for the week.
I started working out more.
I spent more time on personal projects, hobbies, and work projects I didn't get done during traditional hours.
I was more productive, saving money, and getting in better shape, and I felt FREE.
It became the norm, and more importantly, over the course of the next 5+ years, I worked remotely consistently, even through multiple career changes.
Throughout these pivots, I left a Fortune 50 company, worked for multiple startups, and created my own businesses. And, in the past two years, I've been working full time remotely while traveling the world, living in 15 countries on 5 continents.
The transferable skills I built combined with the ongoing innovations in tech makes remote work a possibility for the rest of my life.
I became a Basset Hound of remote work, sniffing out local coffee shops with bottomless coffee and high-speed Wifi.
I became a pro at creating functional workspaces from the most obscure places. Remote work became my symbol of freedom. My liberation from bullshit, corporate, office distractions.

A transformation occurred internally. I had been studying, researching, and implementing strategies to find remote work myself...
Within my previous role at Remote Year and the coaching work I do, I was speaking to hundreds of people each week about remote work.
I'd accumulated relationships in remote job communities, found and build resources, and realized my knowledge of how to navigate the remote job marketplace was highly uncommon...
I could enable people to live their own dream, whether that was to spend more time with their family, work from local coffee shops, or even travel the world.
That's why I built this course.
I started creating the content in this course in early 2018 and have since updated it many times to ensure it's the most relevant, comprehensive, and accessible remote job course on the market.
I want to help you find your remote job: Find out more below!