Becoming a Digital Nomad

Presenting the 2023 edition - updated December 2022! Imagine living the lifestyle you want while making money and working anywhere in the world. Imagine enjoying the beaches in Thailand one day, then trying the best pizza in Italy the next. It sounds like a dream — travel anywhere you want, make money doing something you enjoy, and live life to the fullest. It's not a dream, though — a growing number of digital nomads are leaving the 9-to-5 life and choosing to take control of their life. What's a digital nomad? A person who travels as they like, lives where they want, and does their work digitally. They have no cubicle and no dress code. Digital nomads are young, old, male, female, single, married, have children, and are from almost every country on this planet. If you want to become a digital nomad, nothing can stop you.

"...an incredibly comprehensive resource to take you from the idea of being a digital nomad to making it a reality, covering logistics, planning, and even the emotional process thereof.”

The Professional Hobo, AKA Nora Dunn (theprofessionalhobo.com) Becoming a Digital Nomad offers a proven step-by-step guide to test and transition into the digital nomad lifestyle. It's one part travel guide and one part how-to. Steps build on each other in chronological order, and a dozen worksheets guide you with specific questions to answer. (These are freely available to save and print offline or online, whatever works best for you.) Learn from dozens of digital nomads, get how-to advice on every aspect of the transition, or learn how to test the lifestyle out before committing to it. "This guide is a well-written, treasure trove of information, indispensable to anyone thinking of becoming a digital nomad, or for existing nomads seeking information to enhance their digital nomad lifestyle. I would have loved to have had even a quarter of this information when I left Canada 17 years ago." Nancie McKinnon

New to the 2023 About the author Chris Backe (rhymes with hockey) has lived as an expat or digital nomad since 2008. He has been a travel blogger, a web developer, and a guidebook writer. Today, he's a board game designer and a digital nomad consultant. He's married to an awesome Canadian, and together they've traveled across 5 continents. They currently live in Birmingham, England.