I noticed a lot of digital nomads have to take a pay cut or have money saved up. Is it even possible to be a US citizen and have a remote job with good pay? I say this because if I want to live in a foreign country for say 3-6 months and then return back the US I don’t want to be making only 30k a year.
At minimum, I would quadruple my salary if I just moved back to the States and got a regular gig in my industry. Likely much more.
But instead of that, I recently absorbed a huge salary cut. Because my company knows Im not going to do that. And my company knows how hard it is for me to replace this gig as a remote worker. Capitalism 101.
High paying jobs with an extraordinary work/life balance are unicorns, no matter how you cut it.