When people ask me where and when I'm going on holiday I often tell 'em 'I live on holiday'.

Some people laugh at me, others know I'm serious and, rarely, they also understand why.

I don't live 'on holiday' because I existed a startup with a $1 million or because I'm a trader or whatever, I'm just somebody who does something for a living that doesn't feel like work (not to me anyway) and I do it remotely. That's it.

Don't get me wrong. A job's a job. Anybody who does something for a living that other people do for fun will tell you that doing it for work isn't the same thing.

You still have bosses and deadlines and pressure and (unrealistic) goals and meetings and bosses and rules and deadlines.

But, it still beats working for a living, as they say.

But the key component is the ability do it remotely.

As long as I deliver - most remote jobs are result-based, not time-based - my bosses don't care where I am, and even if they did, they wouldn't have to know.

No one wants to see their colleague work from a beach or a swimming pool so all you have to do is find a reasonably sober coffee spot whenever you know there's a zoom call you gotta join with camera.

I understand that some people find this annoying, and I don't blame them.

But some people find this incomprehensible. Like a thing they don't understand and shouldn't exist.

Well, it does, and it can only get bigger.