We all make choices on how we want to live. For years, I followed the corporate path and worked for some major companies around Metro Detroit learning the ropes of business, and getting educated beyond my years by some fantastic managers. I learned a lot while I worked in for them. I learned about, how to market businesses, how to write contracts, how to negotiate deals, big and small, how to convince clients the creative in front of them is the best idea, how to maximize vacation time in order to chase my real dreams.
Along the way, I decided to leap away from the traditional safety net that a salary job offers and work in the gig economy as an entrepreneur. Somehow, after a few years of running my company, I ended up in another corporate job but as a touring musician.
I’m sure that you don’t think of my job for Princess Cruises as a touring music job or a corporate job, but it was both. I received a w-9. Based upon my salary, I paid taxes and social security, I also received benefits of healthcare while on board the vessel. As an employee, I was also provided an opportunity to invest in the company at a discounted rate by purchasing stocks to put in my future retirement plan.
For the last several years, I’ve been living based out of Detroit Michigan. Actually, the suburb named Royal Oak famous for having the Detroit Zoo in our neighborhood. I’ve been mentoring private music lessons, performing in multiple capacities, writing, and creating content for online social media companies, and enjoying life on land being home close to our family.
While I was working abroad, not only did I miss out on a lot of amazing things in my family and friends lives, but I also learned that I have a real gypsy spirit. I don’t do well when I sit in one place for long periods of time, at first, I thought I was running away from something. But there isn’t anything wrong at home to chase me away, I just love The experience of travel and being in other cultures. So I make it a point to go live somewhere else multiple times a year.
This website has transitioned from being a way to keep in touch with my family and more of a way to give people tips and tricks about how to not work yourself to death, how to travel and see the world, How to do it, and afford it, and how to pretend like you’re working, and retired at the same time.
Thus the title, Permanent Workation.
