HeyJaredDaria’s Different Way
For the globally curious and multipassionate — the programs, strategies, and side quests that make a different life actually possible.
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7 opportunities closing this month, Australia's working holiday lottery, how to make money online as a bilingual (opens the original)
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why I refuse to put my whole life into one country, one job, or one person (opens the original)
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how to build a global life that actually happens, not just one that looks good on paper (opens the original)
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Hi, I'm Daria (Dasha)! Welcome to Different Way, where I write for curious, restless people building a life that isn't decided by the passport they were born with.Last week I did 13 (my favorite number hihi) global strategy calls (Global 1:1s) with people teaching in Korea, Malaysia, and Japan, finishing university in Eastern Europe and Canada, and working jobs in the US that they already know aren’t their whole life. Even though every situation was different, the same questions kept com
how to move to Thailand young, ambitious, and broke (opens the original)
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Bangkok is one of the top destinations for foreigners to live, but all of the stories I’ve heard, read about, or watched on YouTube were literally 99 percent the same white man with a lot of savings and a remote tech job…While I am someone who is earning on the spot as I move through the world. For me, it was never just one job; I’ve been unconsciously (and at times out of need) building a portfolio career with online and offline sources of income, as moving from place to place so frequently as
I lied about my age at 16 to get my first work exchange, and now I'm the one approving them (opens the original)
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I genuinely do not remember where I first heard about work exchange, and it bothers me more than it probably should. I was sixteen. Somebody told me you could live on the other side of a border in exchange for a few hours of work a day, and it rearranged my entire life. I cannot tell you who. It just arrived. You have to understand what it landed on. My parents still do not have passports. Nobody around me had ever been abroad, and “abroad” was a word you weren’t quite supposed to say out loud.
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