OtherEconomistB

Its a shame, but it’s true. There is tech crypto and money crypto, and more often the majority of people are in it for the money side.

I’ll say I’m a software engineer working in web3. And then they’ll ask what is that, and I’ll say blockchain/crypto. Then I’ll say because crypto is a global software system, I work with people from all over the world and can work from anywhere. Then the conversation usually goes into something like “Ohhh, like Bitcoin? I had a friend that invested in some” or “Oh I own some Bitcoin”, or “Oh tell me about that, ive heard of blockchain, what is that exactly?”, and I’ll proceed to talk about Ethereum from a systems, solution-oriented perspective on solving real world problems, and it tends to go pretty well with anyone. Or, they’re completely not interested at all, which also isn’t ever an issue.

I never say I’m a digital nomad.

Also, if I get a sense that the person asking is shady, I won’t bring up my position and instead just say I’m visiting friends here, as I don’t want to be looked at as “this person has money”.

I built an entire custom website in Vue.js with multiple pages about me and market that URL out. It’s got:

- Great design and colors
- Fancy custom animations and iconography
- Catchy homepage with summary
- About me page
- Portfolio page with cards that flip back and forth, linking out to each project’s codebase, demo app, and summary of what it is/does and the tech stack used
- Resume page, with a scrollable animated timeline of my experience, resume can be viewed, downloaded, or saved to google drive with easy to click links
- Skills page, outlining all the different languages, frameworks, tooling, etc that I’ve used over my career
- Contact page, to send me an email to get in touch
- Social links - github, npm, twitter, and soundcloud (I also do music)

Because the vast majority of digital nomads are younger people on a tighter budget. The US & CA are high cost of living countries for all basic needs - shelter, food, transportation - comparatively to other countries.

It’s not that hard to figure out. Even you can see the obstacles for it

I know renting a car as a foreigner is really complicated in the USA

That all Americans are loud, obnoxious, selfish, and rude. It’s a nation of nations, of 330 million people. It’s pretty hard to stereotype that amount of people and the diversity.

The stereotype is typically shed soon after talking with me I think, but it is indeed what everyone commonly thinks of Americans and something I have dealt with as pre-judgement.