Digital nomads — look no further than OdeCloud for all your long-term freelancing needs.
Digital nomads are individuals who, often due to the technological nature of their job or career, freely roam the world and move from place to place while still being able to access and complete their work.
But as any freelancer would know, the freelancing lifestyle can be fairly unpredictable, and it can be difficult to plan for lengthy trips around the globe when work loads and finances change rather often.
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OdeCloud CTO and co-founder Vanielle Lee is one of these digital nomads. Having already visited over 20 different countries over the course of her relatively young lifetime, she currently works out of Seoul, South Korea as a freelance software engineer.
According to her, seeing so many of her close friends traveling the globe is what really inspired her to make a significant life change. Working a conventional 9-to-5 job as a Silicon Valley techie was great financially, but she knew she needed to change the direction of her career if she was going to achieve a much more desirable work-life balance.
“As a millennial of this generation, that 9-to-5 just wasn’t working out well — especially when I was maybe on the train scrolling through my Instagram, seeing my friends traveling to like, Bali,” Vanielle said. “I said, ‘Hey, c’mon, that could be me!’
“So I wanted to find a way to make this possible, of how I could fit in what I love to do, my job as a software engineer, and also, how do I end up getting hired by a company to get there?”
She initially attempted to search for a company that would immediately benefit her work-life balance as a software engineer, but eventually came to terms with the fact that there are few businesses that are actually built to allow for such needs.
It was at that point that she began her work as a freelance software engineer, which provided her with more time to do what she wanted, but unfortunately cost her the financial security of a full time job. She recalls splitting her time between finishing up work for clients and frantically scrolling through freelancing platforms like Upwork in hopes of securing next week’s paycheck.
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Happening across Osar Iyamu and her current long-term gig with OdeCloud, she considers herself very lucky to now be provided with more opportunities to “explore the world,” as well as the “comfort and security of being in a 9-to-5 job.”
OdeCloud, she says, removes the usual unpredictability that comes with being a freelancer, allowing her to much more accurately plan out her time.
“I could eventually go to maybe somewhere like Singapore, or maybe even go to somewhere in Brazil, and know that I still have the same amount of income next week — while also still having a stable work load coming in.”
“It’s hard to plan for the future when the short term is still so unpredictable; but the main plus of being a part of OdeCloud is it gives me a lot more leeway to be able to think (about) the future.”
Additionally, she appreciates the freedom that OdeCloud has given her to create, allowing her to realize her dreams of creating a platform aimed at helping other freelancers find long-term gigs.
In my next post, I’ll detail just how Vanielle came to be involved with OdeCloud, as well as how she knew the company would be such a great fit for her desired lifestyle.
