Thought y'all might find this one interesting. My passion is mountain biking and during ugly weather and times when I can't go outside and play (damn kids!) I get by watching POV vids on youtube while I ride on my spin bike. One of them is 'singletrack sampler', a guy with a ridiculous beard name Alex who travels to various locations and SHREDS for our enjoyment, he also is super enthusiastic and funny.
Had a regular job, lots of debt and felt like it was wrong for him. He chucked it all and has been living out of his car for 4 years now. Basically finds a campsite to post up at, rides trails, edits vids. Makes his living with a combo of youtube proceeds, patreon donations, t-shirt sales, doing online SAT prep training and bike mechanic gigs. He recently posted a vid detailing his plans for switching from this to #vanlife so he can sleep inside and have more security for his bikes. He was obviously very wary of taking on too much debt with too fancy a van.
On one hand the guy is really livin his dream. He rides bikes all over the country, has a blast, low debt, low overhead and not tied down by anything really. BUT what I wonder about is what the endgame looks like for a guy like this? Like at 40 is anyone still going to watch his vids? He likely won't have much if anything for retirement saved. He also will almost certainly never be able to go back to traditional work.
If this was you how would you plan for later life? I have some ideas but I'm interested to hear what others think?
Some links below. Note that I'm not affiliated with this dude in any way, nor do I care or get anything if you hit subscribe. :D
Here is the link to his 'van plan' which is long but details some of his finances and philosophy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drwyfdxOka4&t=3253sHere is the youtube channel, if you like mountain bikes you could get lost in here, haha!
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfUGBBnxQYezwJM9wi3F-Lg/videos