Therese-Heather Belen is living the dream, working remotely full-time while travelling across Vietnam, Thailand, Japan and India.
But the dream comes with a catch: Her workday starts in the evening and lasts through the night.
To stay in the same time zone as co-workers at her New York-based marketing tech firm, about a 12-hour difference, she works and takes meetings into the wee hours of the morning.
For some, ambitious “workcation” trips like these are seen as a way to make up for lost time during pandemic lockdowns. For others who choose to wander far from their home time zone, such adventures can veer off course, becoming hellish journeys to the land of sleep deprivation.
Belen, who is travelling with Remote Year, a programme that functions like a kind of study abroad trip for working adults, said this lifestyle allows her to experience more of the world than would ever have…
