In case you didn’t already know, we just hit our halfway mark. Most of you have followed along enough to get an idea of where we have been, what we have been doing and how awesome everything has been!
Yes, everything about this is awesome and the pictures you see us post mean that everything is perfect. We don’t deal with barely making busses, losing money on canceling flights, being afraid for our safety, stressing about QFYC and not being in touch enough with people back home, being better about our budget, not fluently speaking the language and the list goes on. In case you couldn’t guess, that couldn’t be further from the truth. Those things mentioned above are just a couple we go through each day.
Now it’s time for me to get vulnerable.
I’m Pete and I’m a co-founder of Quarter for Your Crisis. My life has been pretty cushy to put it lightly. Raised by a good family, did well in sports during high school, had good opportunities in college and took full advantage of them, have an incredible support group of friends, moved to New York after college and after a year in a half had what some might call a dream job – pharmaceutical sales. My car and gas were paid for, my salary was high, my 401k was matched, EZ pass was great, most of the time lunch was free, bonuses were plentiful and work-life balance was one that people would envy. You get the picture.
Now after a year of working for a Japanese Pharma Company, I decide to quit. Throughout the year I worked on a plan to travel the world which ultimately shifted to traveling through the Americas below us. Jordan and I also launched a blog during this time and things started to change. At the end of 2014 I quit (after saving those healthy bonuses) to travel for four months with my beloved Jordan Dansky. The idea was not just to see the incredible things that the world has to offer but also to interview Millennials from different countries and cultures who are going through a similar time period of their lives when they just want to figure it all out.
Cutting to the chase: I did what everyone wants to do. Save up. Quit. Travel and help others while working on your own business. The dream, right? Right. What comes along with this that you don’t see in the travel posts or #nofiltered pictures of a Marine Iguana on the Galapagos?
Stress, anxiety and fear.
The funny thing about this is that QFYC was created with a mission to help people solve their fears by facing them head on. While I’ve always fully supported this and understood it, I didn’t have as a good of a grasp on what it really means to face a fear until I began traveling…
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