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H.. · · Washingtonville NY · Joined Apr 2012 · Points: 45

Do people successfully dirtbag with a family? I feel like it would be difficult to live out of a van on $2/day with a significant other and children.

J A · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Jun 2006 · Points: 45

Think it through very seriously. Calculate out all of your career possibilities, financial needs, potential problems and the impact it will have on your future. Consult the oracle. Prepare a spread sheet to plot all of the different variables. If you go about it with sufficient thoroughness and patience eventually you will be too old for it to be worthwhile and you won’t have to take any chances or make a hard decision.

Kingk · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Apr 2013 · Points: 0

Like many others here, I say do what you want to do, do what makes you happy. Admittedly, I may not really know what I’m talking about here as I have never spent time dirtbagging, but as I see it, spending your time traveling around, living out of a van, and climbing all the time is no less of a noble cause than what most people spend their lives doing.

I’ve spent my whole life (so far) chasing the idea of what social norm calls “a respectable life”. I graduated high school and went straight to college, studied engineering because I’m good at math and that’s a respectable career path, graduated college and went straight to work. Society would call me successful, but I only feel like I’ve been doing what I’m “supposed” to be doing. I certainly wouldn’t say spending the past 11 years (counting college) pursuing success has made me a more valuable person than most of the dirt bags I’ve met in any way other than financially.

I’m of the belief that pursuing happiness is (or at least should be) the true purpose of all our lives, because what else are we supposed to be doing here? So do what makes you happy, and try to spread a little bit of that happiness to others as you go.

Moof · · Portland, OR · Joined Dec 2007 · Points: 25

I did just shy of a year in my truck between jobs. It was the best year of my life. I had very few days where I was bored, and those were the days it was rainy, or worse the days after a rain in Red Rocks where you just have to sit back and wait for the rock to dry out and get solid again.

climber57 Jones · · Saint John, NB · Joined Nov 2012 · Points: 60

Once I finish College Im hitting the road. Although I wont have much money, I cant wait!

Guideline #1: Don't be a jerk.

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