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13

Starting a business overseas

Filed Under Faith and fear, Freedom, Travel 

Since this post in which I said I was going to learn Spanish for traveling purpose, much change has happened to our plans.

Our new idea is to go to Indonesia and stay there for at least a year. We’re actually planning to open a small business over there. Why Indonesia? Well, first because we need to go where the sun shines at least once or twice a year for a change, and where the landscapes are beautiful. We also want to forget most things that remind us of the occidental way of life. It’s as simple as that. Second, Nathalie knows Indonesia really well. She speaks Indonesian fluently and knows what it is to live there. She also happens to have a degree in “foreign business with South-East Asia”. She’s already been teaching me a bit of bahasa Indonesia this week and I’ve found many great lessons and games to help you learn on various websites.

The idea occurred as we were talking about staying in Indonesia, just touring and slacking around for about 6 months, before going to Canada like we’d planned before. But then we had this illumination and saw a great business opportunity in a niche business that very few people seem to have gone into yet.

passportThe project in question requires mostly time, dedication and communication, but very little if no money at all. Once it is all set up, we’ll have a nice income for working a few hours a week. If it doesn’t turn out well, it’s still ok because thanks to the hard work we’ve been putting here, we have enough money to live a couple of years with no income at all over there.

The only difficulty resides in the fact that it’s extremely difficult to obtain a visa that allows us to stay and work in Indonesia. The administrative rules resemble a maze designed by some kind of mad and vicious man. So we need to figure that part out before saying goodbye to our people here.

Anyway I’m very happy about having one more concrete project that doesn’t require me to work for an employer ever again. On January 1st, I actually made myself the promise of leaving my last employer ever this year. I’m working as hard as I can to generate income from my websites. So, even if it doesn’t work out well in Indonesia, at least I’ll be able to spend a lot of time over there, having no obligation at all, to develop my web activities.

I already told everyone at my day job about leaving Belgium, and I’ve been amazed to see how scared people seem to be when it comes to doing anything that’s out of the ordinary. They will find all sorts of reasons not to change anything in their lives. They would invent all sort of barriers, like language difference, terrorism, or other virtual threats of the sort.

Well, it’s really dangerous going outside your home, especially in Brussels. You can get hit by a car every time you cross a street. Is it a sufficient reason to stay home? No it’s not. Life’s too short to discard the outside world’s experiences, even if crossing your front door means having 50% chance of getting ran over by trucks. What’s the point staying home waiting for your body and your brain to decay?

Always remember that everything is possible.
You want to do something, anything?
Plan it.
Do it.


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