‘I could not do another day. It was just so draining.’
Jack Scott was fed up with how things were going in his career. Straight out of university with a degree in mechanical engineering, Scott, 24, had spent nine months working for a refrigeration company in a job he didn’t enjoy.Meanwhile, his college friend James Fleming, 25, was making good money as an office-based training organiser but was growing weary of long hours at his laptop.
“If I don’t stop now, then I’m going to keep doing this, there’s never going to be a time when I will stop,” Parthasarathy tells CNN today, recalling the reasoning behind her decision. Despite the feeling of liberation from their unfulfilling jobs, they said it was hard-going at times — waking before dawn to make the most of daylight and driving up to 14 hours a day on mountain dirt roads through Nigeria, Cameroon and the Congo.
Scott, meanwhile, returned to his refrigeration job but didn’t last long before being lured back out onto the road. As the pandemic rolled on, Hu saved up her salary and, when travel restrictions started to ease up in 2021, she decided to quit her job and booked a ticket to Guatemala. The unpredictability of travelling long-term appealed massively to Hu, who says she loved the spontaneity of catching overnight buses and turning up in new destinations with no idea where she was going to stay.“Something like that is way more exciting than having to wake up at like 8.30am, turn on your computer, and just have to be on a Zoom meeting right away,” she said. “You know, the same thing every day.
The idea was to just travel for six months. “That break has gone on for five and a half years now,” she tells CNN.
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