Imagine: I have four pairs of vacation tickets in my hands for the next six months, clear plans for a summer road trip through Altai and a vague but quite feasible desire to ride a bike along the Curonian Spit. Incompatible with work, you say?
On the contrary! Combining full-time employment and the joy of regularly exploring the world is quite realistic: we tell you from our own experience how to travel more and share life hacks. And no “I have to work” or “a trip to the country is also an adventure.”
P.S. We urge you to treat the advice with some irony and not take it as a strict guide to action.
Content
- Shift the focus from things to travel
- Use holidays wisely
- Join loyalty programs
- Arrange weekend trips
- Delegate care
- Try the workshop
- Find a job that allows you to travel
Shift the focus from things to travel
Conditionally, “we are not updating the gaming laptop this year, but we are going on another vacation.” Or, when faced with a choice between buying a new smartphone and the opportunity to rush on a trip, give your vote and money to the trip. You can also go on a bike trip with an old gadget: but you will take fewer photos and enjoy every moment more.
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It is important to set priorities, determine your golden mean without going to extremes, and come to an agreement with yourself and your partner if the decision affects your life together, children or relatives. Sometimes money really needs to be used for other purposes instead of traveling.
You should not skimp on things that relate to comfort, health, or help you earn money. Training will help you grow in income, and laser vision correction will help you see all the beauty of nature on your next trip. It’s more pleasant to travel when you have the strength, money and nothing hurts.
You can also go on a bike trip with an old gadget. Photo: Jens Breuer/Shutterstock.com
To each his own
One day, my friend, who had not traveled for a long time, was very happy about the suspended toilet and shared that she had been dreaming about it for 7 years. About the same amount, one of my friends is going to make repairs in the bathroom, but every time he breaks off on another vacation instead. He says Thailand and Sri Lanka please him more than new tiles.
Use holidays wisely
The ability to negotiate with colleagues and superiors, sleight of hand and far-sighted calculations allow you to add a couple more to non-working days at your own expense or on vacation.
A textbook example: take the days between the May holidays. In 2025, it’s May 5th, 6th, and 7th. As a result, we will get a full vacation for 11 days — there is a place to roam! Enough for hiking in Krasnaya Polyana or Montenegro, cycling in Europe or a trip to the sea.
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But there is a caveat: you will have to compromise and accept the high cost of travel during calendar holidays. There are too many people eager to avoid the planting season on household plots, as a result, the standard budget can be safely multiplied by two. Catch stocks and move dates — you might get lucky.
Do not forget about the June and November holidays. If you take care in advance and take June 9, 10 and 11, you will get 9 days in which you can do a lot. Or take November 5, 6, 7 and fly for 8 days to bask in the sun, away from slush and fog. At the same time, the precious supply of vacation days will not suffer much.
On vacation, you can go hiking in Krasnaya Polyana. Photo: Damira/Shutterstock.com
Who signed it? Did I sign it?
Arina, a traveler, likes to leave for a long time: “Prudence and calculation are the key to my long trips with a standard 5/2 office schedule. For example, I start coordinating days with my supervisor at my own expense between the May holidays back in January, when no one is claiming them, and the three—week October vacation is in early spring.
The main thing is to fix the agreement right away. When the supervisor gets closer to the point and asks why it’s taking so long, I remind him that he himself has already agreed on my vacation. Sometimes there are funny situations, like in the movie “The same Munchausen”:
— You have signed Baron Munchausen’s petition for divorce.
— Who signed it? Did I sign it? Yes, I signed it.”
Join loyalty programs
Long vacations and trips involving the May or New Year holidays require considerable finances. Loyalty programs for travel services and airlines will help you save money. Little by little, miles, bonus points, and levels accumulate— one day you’ll find that they’re enough for a flight or a couple of nights at your favorite hotel. This is an excuse to go on an unplanned trip — well, don’t waste the good!
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Little by little, miles, bonus points and levels accumulate – one day you will find that they are enough for a couple of nights of stay at your favorite hotel. Photo: Olezzo/Shutterstock.com
Arrange weekend trips
Psychologists believe that even short trips improve the quality of life: they help to cope with stress and bring joy back to life by changing the environment. Therefore, we remind you that a day off is not a time when you clean, iron and cook food on theall week. It’s better to spend a couple of days away from your hometown, such an attractive sofa and a cozy but painfully familiar kitchen.
An optimistic plan for the weekend: take off early on Saturday morning and return on Monday night. Where to go? Go to a concert or exhibition in St. Petersburg, relax in Kaliningrad or meet friends in Yerevan.
Some ticket aggregators allow you to track weekend tickets and offer the most convenient options: it’s worth subscribing. Well, if you don’t find anything suitable, arrange adventures not far from home: go on an excursion to a neighboring town or with a tent to a national park, to a river with boots or hiking on the surrounding rocks. It’s only two days, and you can’t get as many emotions as you can at work and in a comfortable apartment in a month. Ideas for short trips from Moscow can be found here, and from St. Petersburg in another article About!The blog.
You can arrange adventures close to home, for example, go to the river with your boots. Photo: Yekatseryna Netuk/Shutterstock.com
Delegate care
Sometimes a child, a beloved pet, or even an exotic plant that cannot be left unattended becomes an obstacle to travel.
For some, the answer to the question of what it takes to travel more often is: “It’s necessary for children to grow up.” But it is not necessary to wait for the coming of age of a beloved child. There is a way out: for example, you can negotiate with your loved ones and ask your grandmother to stay with your grandson or granddaughter, or take the child with you. With proper preparation, there is a chance to go with children not only on a vacation at sea, but also on a week-long hike.
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With proper preparation, there is a chance to go with children not only on a vacation at sea, but also on a week-long hike. Photo: everst/Shutterstock.com
You can also take your beloved cat or dog with you or take them to relatives for a few days. And a young mango tree, which shudders and drops leaves from every barely noticeable draft, should be carefully packed and carefully moved to a friend in return for a promise to bring a real Thai yellow-sided fruit.
Are there no loved ones nearby or do you not want to burden them? There are other formats: dog sitters and pet hotels know how to take care of furry pets. Read reviews, arrange test runs for 1-2 days and gradually increase the period.
Yes, you will worry at first, but photo and video reports will help you to bear the separation.
You can also take your beloved cat or dog with you. Photo: Soloviova Liudmyla/Shutterstock.com
Cotonyan is required
Maria, pricing specialist, Ostrov: “The presence of pets and exotic plants that require special care is a serious factor limiting travel. But there are people like dogsitters and Cotonians. Leaving a pet with them is a life hack that has made our sleepover trips more frequent.”
Try the workshop
A working vacation, when you complete tasks during the day and walk around a new city in the morning or evening, is another way to add more travel to your daily routine.
Work (from English work and vacation) is suitable primarily for freelancers: they can travel around the world without losing income, because such specialists do not have vacation time.
You just need to take into account the time difference in order not to get up for your daily online meeting at three o’clock in the morning or not to call the customer at 23:00. Yes, it can be difficult to focus on work when the sea is silvering outside the window, but you will have to close the mandatory tasks and only then go to the beach. Nevertheless, the summer workshop, for example, in Kasha or in the Konyaalti area in Antalya, definitely benefits from the standard working week in Chelyabinsk.
Working vacation, when you complete tasks during the day and walk around in the morning or evening A new city is another way to add more travel to your daily routine. Photo: kitzcorner/Shutterstock.com
Find a job that allows you to travel
Those who work in office 5/2 can pay attention to business trips: employers often have nothing against joining them on weekends. Perhaps they will meet you halfway and arrange the purchase of a return ticket for Sunday. Yes, you will have to pay for the hotel yourself, but it’s not a carnival for the cat. Two days to explore the city without having to pay for tickets is already a pleasure. For example, in Vladivostok you can have time to go to the Glass Beach, and from Nizhny Novgorod you can go on an excursion to gingerbread Town.
Freelancers can afford to travel much more often than those who work five days a day. The most desperate live by the principle of “earned, went on vacation and immediately spent.” But behind the fan of tickets and beautiful pictures on social networks, unstable earnings and chaotic project work can be hidden — you just have to do it faster, sometimes sitting at your laptop for 10-12 hours a day and even on weekends.
During a business trip to Vladivostok, you can have time to go to the Glass Beach. Photo: elinaxx1v/Shutterstock.com
Travel and enjoy the gentle sea waves, white mountains in the piercing blue sky and the sun rays on the ancient mosaic. Who’s where, and we all rushed to the airport, catch up!
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