The fifth installment of the Nomad Skeptic Podcast features the show’s first ever Texan guest.
Alex Cyrus is a web developer who works remotely for a US company, while living in Canada, having successfully found work in the industry following a three-month web-dev ‘boot camp’.
Topics include
*How and why somebody might want to work remotely while still doing the ‘nine to five’.
*The pros and cons of coding / programming ‘boot camps’.
*Materialism, the white picket fence, and asking, ‘is this all there is?’
*The modern age and technology — amazing opportunities, potential pitfalls.
More about Alex
You can see Alex’s portfolio here and his Instagram account here.
Clips used
Scene from Waking Life (2001) – here.
Scene from Fight Club (1999) – here.
Voiceover
By Daloria Mondesir whose Fiverr account you can find here.
Production notes
Recorded Thursday, 30-May-2019 (Day 96 of the journey) in the second bedroom of the air-BNB in City Squares, Kuching, Borneo, Malaysia.
Edited and released 1-Jun-2019.
Compression at 15db (every track).