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My Adventure From Thailand To UK, Italy and My Struggles in Life As A Digital Nomad Freelancer

Mark Caggiano
5 min readFeb 9, 2020

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I was living in Thailand, Chiang Mai. I stayed there for more than 3 years but money was running out. My Dev Freelancing business was stagnant. The hot and smoky season in April was killing me, it was around 40°, and i had barely the money to pay my rent, even if it was very cheap. A friend of mine offered me to help me to find a dev job in the UK. I didn’t meet him before, but he has a family, 2 kids, so i thought he was trustworthy and i didn’t have nothing to lose. I also had a high ticket customer waiting to close the deal. More on that later.

I decided to go to the UK, but i had also a dream. In the dream, i dreamt about staying in Thailand. If i was remaining in Thailand i could do it, this bad period will go away, i need just to be patient, but i wasn’t and i flew to UK to find a Job. Another reason i flew to the UK was my sister, she decided to move to London and i haven’t seen her for about years. So i thought we could help eachothers.

Probably it was a bad decision.

UK is nice, and my friend was helpful. He bought me some new clothes, because i lost my baggage in the bus station.

Something was odd. He was helping me, but he wasn’t helping me 100%. I really needed a more substantial help. I wasn’t the best guest, i’m not good at living with others, especially when they pay for me. I’m an independent person and i hate to not be able to pay for myself; but i was in that…

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Mark Caggiano
Mark Caggiano

Written by Mark Caggiano

Internet Marketer, Web Developer, Traveler

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