Career Confidence

27Is That Actually a Job?

I am endlessly fascinated by how people make a living. My new obsession is watching all these “homesteaders” online who give up the rat race, move to the country, grow their own food, and live off the land. They raise chickens, plant gardens, make bread from scratch, and head to Costco once a month with a $300 budget to get enough supplies to feed a family of six for a month.

As someone who DoorDashed $1,500 worth of dinners last month, I'd love to know how they do it.

Apparently, if you do it well enough, and enough people are interested in your story on social media, you can be paid through sponsorships. So, maybe, they are walking around in real life with designer purses and expensive sports cars, and putting on a show for you and me.

I have also been following a young couple who left their corporate jobs, bought an old school bus, turned it into their home away from home, and are traveling across the United States, documenting their trials and tribulations, and capturing it all on blogs, videos, and articles, and getting paid to do it.

Or, how about the people who quit their day jobs to become delivery drivers for all the delivery services that popped up during the Covid pandemic?

If you are struggling in your job, your boss is a nightmare, and your commute is a soul-sucking exercise in erratic drivers and road rage, giving it all up to go live among the trees, random wildlife, and homemade bread might sound pretty damn good right now.

But before ...