Daily Cafe Hustling
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Pretty funny. In all seriousness though, is it just me or has entrepreneurship become too mainstream? It seems like most people nowadays who say they are an entrepreneur are really not about the work and getting shit done, but just want to claim the title and tell people about it.
Funny vid, we've hit the youtubes.
Agreed and I think we're just seeing the beginning of it. CCarter nailed it in the holiday journal thread:
Agreed and I think we're just seeing the beginning of it. CCarter nailed it in the holiday journal thread:
oh most definitely man, it ain't obscure as it once were, finna go back to the cubicle
Out of curiosity, do all you digital nomads work out of the same cafes? Or are you typically in a cafe with locals?
I don't understand what you're supposed to do with all your junk when you have to go to the bathroom?
Im gonna catch a LOT of heat for posting this, but what the fuck.. thats just what I do every 6 months or so on this forum anyways.
Before you read it, yes I know people travel and actually do work. Yes I know people like to travel to travel and want to visit places like southeast Asia. Yes I know this and that and all you are about to say.
Anyways.
I chuckled at this video like most of you, but for a different reason I bet. When I see people posting they wanna be a digital nomad and they are balling now by making "it" in affiliate marketing or anything at all to do with online marketing, one of the first things they wanna do is travel or be a nomad and head off to southeast Asia.
Yeah, I know people wanna go there, I get it.
However, I know a lot of these people are running off because the the money they make goes a lot further in Thailand or Vietnam than in the US or UK or Canada, etc. More than likely 50% of them couldn't make it in a higher cost country or state. I didn't say all people couldn't though.
This statement and what I am saying DOES not apply to people who have family, backgrounds, cultures, or who just visit all the time ( back and forth ) to these places, but mostly those who are portrayed in this video.. people who look young and possibly don't have any family ( im talking about kids or parents with medical needs ) and who maybe have some simple dropship or digital business that makes a few thousand dollars a month and they live out of a backpack hoping from cafe to cafe and pressing some buttons to make a check.
Don't get me wrong, to each their own. Get in where you fit in and all that. Do what you wanna do and live that Tim Ferris lifestyle brah.
I just don't call these people CEO's and Entrepreneurs though, I think its a different class of people that fit into that.
I just think you're doing it wrong if you move to Southeast Asia to "bootstrap" and trim costs and have to work in a cafe daily to simply push a few buttons. I know the video is a joke, but we all know people that once they become a couple "hundredaire" online, they start posting and wanting to "offshore" and travel to Thailand. We all know the reason is that you can live pretty damn nice there on less. I am not against that at all, I'm just against calling that person a CEO or Entrepreneur.
Im not hating ( bring on the tags ), shit I'd do it too. I'm just saying I think this video was made to be funny for another reason other than the obvious.
It reminds me a lot of all these people that call themselves "travel hackers" and they act like it's the greatest gift ever. Most of these damn people are single, don't mind flying coach for 17 hours next to a baby with a dirty diaper, and living in a hostel or dingy hotel room for their whole stay just to brag about how they still have 376,317 miles left on United and spend 30 hours researching travel sites each week to get a free connecting flight or layover.
Some people have millions of miles and rewards on their cards and use them a lot and get fantastic upgrades and shit, but these aren't the same people as "travel hackers". Know what I mean?
#justsayin. let the tags fly in please.
Before you read it, yes I know people travel and actually do work. Yes I know people like to travel to travel and want to visit places like southeast Asia. Yes I know this and that and all you are about to say.
Anyways.
I chuckled at this video like most of you, but for a different reason I bet. When I see people posting they wanna be a digital nomad and they are balling now by making "it" in affiliate marketing or anything at all to do with online marketing, one of the first things they wanna do is travel or be a nomad and head off to southeast Asia.
Yeah, I know people wanna go there, I get it.
However, I know a lot of these people are running off because the the money they make goes a lot further in Thailand or Vietnam than in the US or UK or Canada, etc. More than likely 50% of them couldn't make it in a higher cost country or state. I didn't say all people couldn't though.
This statement and what I am saying DOES not apply to people who have family, backgrounds, cultures, or who just visit all the time ( back and forth ) to these places, but mostly those who are portrayed in this video.. people who look young and possibly don't have any family ( im talking about kids or parents with medical needs ) and who maybe have some simple dropship or digital business that makes a few thousand dollars a month and they live out of a backpack hoping from cafe to cafe and pressing some buttons to make a check.
Don't get me wrong, to each their own. Get in where you fit in and all that. Do what you wanna do and live that Tim Ferris lifestyle brah.
I just don't call these people CEO's and Entrepreneurs though, I think its a different class of people that fit into that.
I just think you're doing it wrong if you move to Southeast Asia to "bootstrap" and trim costs and have to work in a cafe daily to simply push a few buttons. I know the video is a joke, but we all know people that once they become a couple "hundredaire" online, they start posting and wanting to "offshore" and travel to Thailand. We all know the reason is that you can live pretty damn nice there on less. I am not against that at all, I'm just against calling that person a CEO or Entrepreneur.
Im not hating ( bring on the tags ), shit I'd do it too. I'm just saying I think this video was made to be funny for another reason other than the obvious.
It reminds me a lot of all these people that call themselves "travel hackers" and they act like it's the greatest gift ever. Most of these damn people are single, don't mind flying coach for 17 hours next to a baby with a dirty diaper, and living in a hostel or dingy hotel room for their whole stay just to brag about how they still have 376,317 miles left on United and spend 30 hours researching travel sites each week to get a free connecting flight or layover.
Some people have millions of miles and rewards on their cards and use them a lot and get fantastic upgrades and shit, but these aren't the same people as "travel hackers". Know what I mean?
#justsayin. let the tags fly in please.
Digital nomad is definitely the buzzword of the year.
It's just become a new way of backpacking and why not, you can keep going for longer and probably hang out with a better crowd. I'm sure a lot of those people in the video still have mom and dads credit card for emergencies like pot and Macbook repairs.
It's just become a new way of backpacking and why not, you can keep going for longer and probably hang out with a better crowd. I'm sure a lot of those people in the video still have mom and dads credit card for emergencies like pot and Macbook repairs.
I've never understood the working in a cafe thing either. If I need to focus and code, I can't be surrounded by noise or people moving around. I need to be able to focus, and I don't want any hipsters spilling shit near my expensive equipment either.
If the people surrounding you are on your team and you're working together its totally different, but I've never understood why people go to starbucks to get work done. I'd rather actually get the work done, and then go to starbucks.
If the people surrounding you are on your team and you're working together its totally different, but I've never understood why people go to starbucks to get work done. I'd rather actually get the work done, and then go to starbucks.
I'm actually briefly in this video (for about an entire half of second), and I'm knocking on 7-figures door this year. But you're still half right. Besides me there is only one other person in the vid bringing in serious cash being an established entrepreneur.
Since I know all of these guys personally, I can actually comment. Most of them actually do have legitimate big goals. They are just here because they are new to the game, and want to bootstrap to build bigger things. A lot of those guys are still complete noobs doing freelance and basic copywriting or drop shipping crap, but they are hyper focused on learning and improving every single day (far better than most of the population). Don't get me wrong, most of the kids shown do indeed like to "ball" a little while here, but it's much less living like a rockstar and much more building bigger things.
The environment here has less to do with saving cash every second, and more to do with being surrounded 24/7 by other highly motivated entrepreneurs. I've lived all around the world for years now, and I have yet to find another place that has this type of community that is so concentrated.
Honestly I don't spend a lot of time with the boot-strappers (different mindsets), but living here working out of cafes has nothing to do with being broke. The people I hang out with on a daily basis while living here are the 1%. Many of these people are the people that you read about or consume their content on a weekly basis and don't even realize. Environments like this create a huge lift to the entrepreneurial mindset for me and many others, while others still prefer to work in their home office by themselves in Nebraska and get more done their. To each their own.
I used to think the exact same way as you: I associated the word entrepreneur with success. Then I started to meet wealthy people and speaking with them. After a few interactions I came to understand that they did not connotate the word entrepreneur with success, but with someone that simply runs a business. When they think of someone successful, they use words such as wealthy, rich, high net worth individual, owner, etc.
In your mind you assume an entrepreneur is successful - however that's far from the truth. The typical entrepreneur makes about what he/she would make in a normal job, the benefit being that he/she can work for him/herself.