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I once told an interview panel that if I got the job, I wouldn’t do anything for three months. Shockingly they didn’t hire me.

I have two young children, a four-year old and a one-year old. The four-year old started primary school a few weeks ago. It’s something that I have been looking forward to for a long time!

I currently have 19 e-mail accounts set up in my mail app. Most accounts are for various businesses that I run because when I set them up, I always create an info@ account as the general account and then if needed a support@ account linked to my help desk software. Just counting the info@ type accounts, I have 17 for business, a personal e-mail account and finally a family e-mail account for anything related to my children, house, bills etc. For years I have struggled to keep the total number of messages in those accounts below 70.

When I first started my business, I had three goals. I wanted to be able to work from anywhere, I wanted to earn more money than I had in a ‘real’ job and I wanted to work as few hours as possible. Finally, after nearly 10 years, I have managed all three as I have finally lowered my working hours down to just 18 a week… but only because I was forced to.

Years ago my partner and I were attending a college open evening with our two children because our eldest was trying to decide what he wanted to do when he finished school. As part of this, we got chatting to one of the tutors and the topic of what I did for a living came up. Back then I had not really thought about the question; no one had ever asked me before.

I feel this is a particular issue with digital nomads who have no formal, set routine and potentially lots of freedom.

I’m sure this is not the first digital nomad blog that you have stumbled across. There are lots out there and some more honest than others. I thought it might be good to share what my life actually looks like, to give an honest view of what a nomadic settler looks like when you have a family.

In my continual quest to get the best value for money and save as much as possible, I was recently tempted to move over to the smarty.co.uk mobile network.