Around 2014 I bought one way ticket to Morocco in order to simply vanish and die.
I ended up traveling all to south to Mauretania, comming back and becoming well known poor but very popular street perfume seller in Marrakesh.
I came back after buring my friend who got stabbed to death around one year later...
Then I become successful backend programmer and husband.
Now I'm after divorce, jobless for 3 years and homeless for 1 month.
I consider going back to African mountains and desert everyday...
I can't promise to be able to help (nor can I promise that if I can help it'll work out better than returning to the African mountains!), but depending on your location & circumstances it's possible I could help you either on the job front or with accommodation. If you'd like to find out, drop me an email (see my profile).
Or if you comment here publicly some more info about your work skills and experience, I wouldn't be surprised if other people might be willing and able to help too :)
You should blog (under a pseudonym), your story is unique. People could support you financially via BuyMeaCoffee or else Patreon, and make teaser posts on Reddit, LinkedIn to bring new readers to your blog.
What did you learn as a street perfume seller in Marrakesh? Compared to software sales? That alone sounds more useful than most TED talks.
There is no comparison.
Selling stuff as white person (extremely culturally aware) in Africa is like stealing candy from a baby. People want to know you, and your story - not the product.
Thank you for such suggestion. Yup, I could write few articles or stories...
Don't be so quick to discount your experience though; selling enterprise software/SaaS is different to marketing and selling consumer goods/services. Tell us what you learned, about both.
Were all your perfume sales face-to-face, or did you use text, or word-of-mouth? Did you give discounts for referrals? How much did the brand name matter, or not? etc.
(Compare to e.g. https://www.ted.com/podcasts/how-to-be-a-better-human/what-w...)
What a story, man. I hope you get back on your feet.
Thank you. There is more hahaha
Amazing. Please keep writing, your story is interesting and will have lessons.
writing here or in general?
Come to Australia.
With the new immigration policies it will be harder nowadays.
He is homeless and you recommend the country with the worst housing affordability problem in the world.
I cycled across the Nullabour Plain in 1998 (Perth to Adelaide)... I have to agree with some parts of this article - there's something Spiritual about the landscape there.
I had to do a double take because I used to work for a person with the same name and since he was featured in, among other places, the local edition of Forbes, it wasn't impossible that he would be mentioned here as well.
Don't want to drive the discussion into the meta but:
Why is most of the article one sentence at a time? I gave up on the article, seems interesting but was hard to read.
I think the style is intended to evoke the way the story developed at the time, as drips of new information came in on the news. I stuck with it and am happy with that decision.
I think it's an adaptation of sorts from the podcast "Expanse: Nowhere Man", which may explain the style.
Turn on "reader mode" in your browser and you can read the text without all the scrolling madness.
Came here just to say that... isn't that BuzzFeed's style?
Australian news websites tend to tell long stories in this style. It’s nice when you get used to it.
BBC also does this.
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