Ex Online Marketer goes on a one year travel and starts a charity-project
In April 2012 we started our mission of travelling the Americas for 1 year. Time4Charity was born. The slogan time4charity has two meanings. First of all we finally have found the time to set up this charity-project. Secondly you can yourself do good by donating your Email-Address, i.e. some of your attention. Nowadays we are all confronted with adverts throughout our daily life (e.g. TV, radio...) and therefore it makes sense to donate some of our attention we spend on advertising anyhow via this newsletter so time4charity can re-use marketing-budgets of big companies to support fundraising campaigns.
The charities we will donate the money to will also be chosen by you! So please subscribe to our Newsletter and thereby support our fundraising-concept.
How I can help Esc members
If you have questions about getting the 6 month US travelling Visa or how to "prolong" it or on how to buy a car in the US or how to insure it, shoot me an email.
Currently...
Carpe Diem! Travel for ONE year and work for a charity-project along the way.
Before I escaped...
7 great years of Online-Marketing and I only quit because I wanted to travel extensively before I retire!
My moment of truth...
I´ve thought about this, since sometime during secondary school. There where two points in my life when I thought now could be the right time. The first time was when finishing secondary school and the second was when finishing my university studies. But I never wanted to do it alone and somehow it did never work out right with my current partner, until 7 years into working life. And how did it happen? Luckily my girlfriend asked me if I ever thought about doing it and funnily I had just thought about it again the week before.... the rest is history :-)
Planning for it...
We justed saved up from our salary and nearly planned for a year.
The worst and best bits...
The worst thing was telling our parents and employers about our plans. One of the best things was finally stepping on the plane. The whole weight of planning, preparing and doubts about doing the right thing fell of at that point - now it was time to enjoy!
Best advice...
Go for it, do it and don`t hesitate! It was the best decision in our life! We have met so many people on our trip who where older, already with kids etc. who said they wished they would have done the same while they still were less "burdened".
Useful resources and information...
I´ll work on this list and come back soon...