The FUNemployed Family

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Wander With Fun #7

What the 🤯 are we thinking?
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This is March of last year. We had just given notice to quit our successful corporate careers, listed our house for sale, and begun selling, donating, and packing up our old life while planning our new one.
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Welcome to #WanderWithFUN post 7️⃣! This is our weekly throwback post to share our story of why (and how) we found the courage to follow our passions, see the world, and find true happiness.
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“So, what the heck are we doing?” This is a question that we asked ourselves daily…and still ask. We still second-guess our decision to walk away from the tenured corporate jobs, cozy home, and breathtaking beauty of Northern California.
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But we also knew our situation wasn’t sustainable. And that to truly live our lives, we would have to say goodbye to some people, places and things we loved.
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So we did this big, crazy thing. We sold the first home we’d ever owned to become nomadic for the foreseeable future. We left our corporate jobs and corner offices to become FUNemployed (😉). And we purged our belongings down to the bare minimum to make more room in our lives for experiences.
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It felt surreal to start this process, knowing we only had 2 months left before we started saying the big goodbyes...