No those now old folks and I and probably a lot of us here too are part of the aforementioned group had their own type of lusting pikery as I recall.

Yes so laid back in the 1960's and 70's

Pikery at its best.

A lot that I have met seem constantly stressed about money, visa issues, future work issues. 

I wish being a Digital Nomad had been a possibility when I was in my twenties. I would have been one.

I have been traveling almost all my life. When I got my summer holiday (which is 4-6 weeks back in Finland), I was out of the country either the day my holiday started, or the next morning.

I have had pretty good jobs within IT business. Still I have opted to sell all my stuff away and go for the "journey around the world". That's quoted as I run out of money and had to return back to my previous employer after half an year :)

If a young person decides to leave everything behind and go to see the world, I think that is one of the best things to do. Really. There is always an possibility to stay still and live one life, in life place. When I returned from my travels, I heard so many times "I would have loved to do what you did, but.." The but.. part included various things which are part of the static life.

When a person have the urge to travel, it's the same as person have an urge to do anything. That urge requires sacrifices. No steady girlfriend, no pets, no car (which my allow to get more one night stands), no.. no, many other things. The urge to go is far more powerful than anything else. The urge is to learn something new, something different.

Even when I moved to SEA and worked in middle management positions on high tech company, I had the urge to travel. And I did so, a lot. Sometimes I woke up in India, got a taxi to a local mobile operator on my way to introduce them to new technologies. The environment was horrible, but the life was great. I did helped Australian, Philippines, Singaporean, Kuwaitian phone companies to get the things right.

I have now lived in Thailand for years and worked as 'Digital Nomad'. Having my own company, doing my work to help new high tech companies with their technical problems. All what is needed is a laptop, internet connection and the education to know which buttons to push.

In the future I'm planning to leave Thailand behind. Travel, learn new cultures and places. Maybe working every now and then.

That's one part, what being a digital nomad is about.

I know. What's the point of faking, when the real orgasm life is far more enjoyable? :)

I had an interesting chat about Pikeys with a pal of mine who was here for ten or so years way back when and has recently returned. The general vein of the chat was that my pal felt it must be easier to make a few bob here now than it was back 'in the day' (early mid 1990s) especially if you are (highly) skilled in software/IT.

I argued to the contrary.
Long gone are the days when you could simply hop on the train to Penang/Vientiane and three/four days later arrive back in BKK with an easily obtained visa good for 6 months which could be extended for a few hundred baht.
If you needed a few quid to top up the budget all you had to do was to head to KSrd and around, check out the ads pinned up in certain guesthouses every morning offering a bit of casual, 'no questions asked' teaching/proofreading work (sometimes something better, even pick up a reasonably paid long term deal with all the paperwork, visas if you got super lucky. Some folks even got a break hanging around expat pubs and 'networking'.

In turn he argued these mentioned avenues in the past were closed because they were abused to death; a point I couldn't argue with yet the simple fact was that 'back in the day' when merely being a native English speaker was an asset in itself was killed by years of visa/WP abuses.

Nowadays such a thing would be unheard of. I seldom hear of someone 'getting lucky' here work wise via a casual source, even if someone dies 'get lucky' they have to go through the whole process (visa, WP, background checks, degree etc). Now the only skills people have which may be in demand are IT skills but the Thais have plenty of their own skilled (and cheaper) workers in this field. 

Back in the 1990s it wasn't uncommon to hear of some lucky sod landing a few weeks at a multi national or a good school with a nice dollop of cash involved. Now all such avenues are long closed starting with the demand that a degree was needed for a WP.
Now I fail to see what these people actually do apart from fill out online surveys all day, spam people's emails or are part of the machinery in bigger, more sinister scams like Boiler rooms.

The guy to the left must have really cold feet! 5555