travel in my city

When I was in my twenties, I had to "eat people's heads" (meaning to work for others in Hokkien), and I always "required" my salary to reach a certain level . I like to travel and I have to live in the same city for more than three weeks. The tourism of the town radiation can be regarded as a trip, so I will deduct about two months of work time every year, with ten months' salary to support my living and pay twice a year for three weeks (above) or once a year for more than one Monthly vacation, it can be seen that the working season has to be very hard to achieve the goal.

Fortunately, my work in the media can use the total number of "cases" to calculate performance. Most of the work is done by individuals, so taking long vacations will not cause problems for colleagues. With the development of the Internet, customers can still be connected to all over the world. I wander around the corner.

In the past, some of my friends were very envious of my life style before the age of 30, but that kind of style was achieved by my own efforts. Although I was lucky to be able to do the work of "counting cases", I also had to show the performance that my boss liked. Only a big company allowed me, who was still young and had no background, to have such freedom.

In fact, when I go to work, I dare to ask my boss about my personal needs, such as having my own office, going to a coffee shop to write a case...etc. When you have time, you can write about workplace culture.

The way I travel requires being in the same city for a long time because for me " travel is life ". I just go to another city to experience daily life, I still drink coffee and have breakfast in the morning, sit in a cafe to read a book, take a walk in the park in the afternoon, chat with people in a restaurant in the evening, and even sometimes do a little work... So, I often feel like I'm just living in another city instead of traveling.

Some people will also ask: In this case, what is the meaning of this kind of travel?

I think there is still an element of adventure in an unfamiliar city. Usually, I only book a hotel for the first two days, and then I go with my feelings and sometimes go to the surrounding cities. I can walk anywhere without my phone with just a book, a notebook, and a few coins, without worrying about anyone going crazy for not finding me, which is the most relaxed way of life for me.

Rarely eat big meals when traveling, but drinking, visiting exhibitions, and watching performances are a must-have itinerary.

Camus wrote "The First Man" when he was young or recently read "The Naples Story". It is said that travel or vacation is incredible for working class people. There are not many paid leave in general enterprises in Taiwan (with my seniority, the annual leave is only more than a week), and I have to sacrifice the opportunity to make money to gain this freedom when I want to travel.

From travel life to life travel

After starting a business at the age of 30, there is no degree of freedom, especially when the new crown epidemic was encountered in the second year. Even if you make money, you have nowhere to go, and after starting your own business, you will want to save money to increase equipment or use it as a business. Working capital... I haven't been able to get the kind of whimsy I used to have at work so far, so all I can do now is to enjoy the fun of traveling in the city where I live.

I didn't expect that I would settle in Hsinchu - now the household registration is also brought in. At first, I was not used to convenience stores in Zhubei that close at 11 pm, and some are closed during the Mid-Autumn Festival and Chinese New Year; I hated that cars would not let pedestrians cross the road, and pedestrians had to finish within 30 seconds. There are dozens of meters and many roads without sidewalks at all; or I worked in a local media in the first year I moved here, and I couldn't fit into their never-ending way of meeting. As soon as noon arrived, I would ask each other "What to eat for lunch." What?"... A lot of the details are very different from living in Taipei, but then I started to see it all from a traveler 's point of view, and it suddenly became interesting!

The first time I ordered beef noodles, I asked the boss for wide noodles, but what I got were thin noodles for Taipei people. My colleagues said that the wide noodles I wanted were called "handmade noodles", and I was in Taipei. The noodle shop I eat, never thought it would give me non-handmade noodles. Every time I go to the post office to pick up a letter, I deliberately choose a route that I have never traveled before. The scenery along the street is very different from my hometown, and I can see small hills not far away, as if I was on vacation.

I no longer only wear formal attire, and now I even dare to wear sandals.

It's the fifth year I've moved here, but I can still find out a lot of new things that I haven't noticed before, and there are more waiting for me to dig out, just like traveling in the city where I live.