I came across this website today while going through my RSS feed http://locationindependent.com
The site was created by the original Location Independent Professionals, Lea & Jonathan Woodward.
Lea started out her professional life as a management consultant based in London, whilst Jonathan was a corporate graphic designer.
After Lea’s Mum died of cancer, she quit the rat race and became a personal trainer. A couple of years later, Jonathan was made redundant from his job. Fed up with the instability of the rat race and working for other people, they both decided to make a go of it and set up their own business.
Lea & Jonathan left the UK in early 2007, determined to find a ‘home’; instead they realised that they enjoyed the nomadic lifestyle that being location independent enabled – and are still travelling between some of their favourite countries including Thailand, South Africa and the Caribbean.
I love the idea of what they are doing and with todays technology it sure is getting a lot easier to achieve this type of lifestyle. I experience a small bit of this myself in the fact that we are based in Cork, Ireland and yet I have online meetings all the time with users in the US and UK and it works very well, and I don't need to clock up painful amounts of Air Miles to achive face to face meetings.
The whole idea of having to have a single base for staff to work at is no longer a must have. In a lot of interviews I have listened to and read lately of company's that have made it big it's unreal how many of the teams have built up the business while all working in different cities and country's and most of them from just an office at home as well.
If you’d like to find out how they – and how others do it, have a browse around their site for in-depth articles, inspiring interviews and more.