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We came to Mexico with a pretty simple plan -- hang out, visit family, live cheap, save money, get some projects done. It is hard sometimes, traveling and working, to carve out time for your own work and I had some work I wanted to get done.
Sawdust in a hurricane has more permanence than a plan of ours. So nothing we planned to do ended up happening. That's how these things go. I went back to doing what I do, drumming up clients, writing things that made them happy. In my search for new clients I noticed my old friends at Wired were looking for a full time writer to do roughly what I've done on a freelance basis for them for years.
I applied. I talked to the editors. Some months passed. I talked to more editors. Next thing I knew I was booking plane tickets back to the states. While the job is remote, it involves products, shipping physical things to me. If you know anything about customs, you know that's not something that's going to work abroad.
So we're headed stateside once more and we're excited about it. We love Mexico, we'll miss the people, our friends, our family, but this feels like the right thing to do to me, at the right time too.
I still have some projects I'd like to tackle, some projects that would be hard to do without the stability of a regular paycheck. As a freelance writer you are either hustling all the time or starving. I need some time, and mental space, to tackle some longer term work and a job provides that, so we're off, back to the United States.
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