<prompt> Human: Im not quitting my job going off the grid. I dont have a trust fund. I have a job that pays 80,000 a year, and requires me to travel. Call my job a field technician, but thats not exactly right. My company is in the US, Mexico Canada. We have a presence in 40 out of the 50 states, and my job can bring me to any of those locations with little to no notice.I am on the road 35-43 weeks out of the year. Usually for 3-4 days per week. My plan is to simply stay on the road. Instead of going home between work trips, Ill just stay where I am, or go on to the next place. When I have a week I dont need to travel, I can go do whatever.When Im not on site at a location, all I need it my laptop, phone, and mobile Internet. I can work from anywhere.Ive done some math I think my plan is sustainable. I currently live in New England, but my address is about to become my brothers place in FL. No income tax. He will take in my mail, my weddingfuneral suit, and some family photos in binders. Otherwise I am going to be self-contained with a carry on suitcase, and a backpack.Seeing as how I spend about 13 days a month at home, I see it as a waste.I started this with 32,000 of debt 3,000 in the bank. Ive liquidated everything I own, except the following items:MacBook AiriPad, IPhone,2 TB external4 16 GIG thumb drivesOakley sunglassesBeats ear budsA fit bitMy walletMy backpackMy suite case2 pairs of jeans1 pair of sneakers1 pair of work shoes8 pairs of socks8 pairs of underwear4 undershirts8 T-shirts3 button down shirts1 sweatshirtTotal profits from the liquidation: 9,009. Car, TV, Xbox, furniture, all media, bike, sound system, home PC, extensive collectable collection think nerd all gone.I will also get my 1,000 security deposit back from the landlord.So I leave my first life with 13,009 in the bank.Here is how I expect this to go:Last year I was on the road forty-two out of fifty-two weeks. Two hundred and eight nights in a hotel room the company paid for. They also pay for my flight, my rental car, and my meals.When I travel I pay for everything up front. Every Friday I submit an expense report, and by the following week the company reimburses my expenses directly into by bank account. I have a travel budget, and have to submit my report in accordance with those our companys policies. Ill be honest, it didnt take me long to figure out how to shred those rules. It has become like a second job for me. I figured out pretty early no one looks very closely at the expense reports I submit. If you go over your allowed limit the item shows red in the report. I keep my report pretty much in the green, but I throw a few red items in there every so often so my reports wont stick out from the other guys. I was recently told I was on the low end on a per trip basis.I found, once you know and understand the rules, there is no limit to the loopholes. As you can imagine, I am fairly Internet savvy. There are dozens of web sites that show you how to maximize your travel points and find the deals the airline doesnt want you to know about. That stuff is all well and good, and I follow most of the advice they provide. I have a credit card for the hotel chain I use, and one for my favorite airline. I use them for absolutely everything. I have a folded twenty-dollar bill behind my license in my wallet for emergencies. Thats the only cash I ever have on me. If I buy a donut, or a cup of coffee, I use one of my credit cards. Every dollar spent is worth a point. I earned 1.3 million hotel points last year. But hat stuff is all on the top level. If you have the Internet, and a spreadsheet you can figure that all out in an hour or so. Spreadsheet for reference:On the next level, what do you do with those points? Most of the guys I work with blow them all on week long vacations in Hawaii, or weekends staying in Times Square. But the vacations, and the weekend splurges are so short sighted. I did the math, and a little research and found out I could make ten dollars for every one thousand points I earned. There are websites for everything. I found on that you can sell your airline and hotel points for one penny per point. I know that doesnt sound like a lot, but when you are dealing with millions of miles, it adds up. Sell a million miles you get ten thousand dollars. I did that four years ago, and all in one transaction. A guy wired me the money, and I transferred him the points. Ten thousand bucks in my pocket, just like that. But then I started thinking about it, and wondered if I too, was being short sighted. I sat down with a cup of coffee and got to work. Ill call this part nerd interlude 1.If you havent guessed already, I live alone. No wife, no girlfriend, no cat, no roommates. My parents passed away long ago, and my siblings are scattered to the wind. So this obviously wont work for everyone.Two hundred and eight nights, plus all the money I spend on my credit card net me an additional 22 nights per year in free hotel rooms. So, I have 230 nights per year that I can stay in a hotel for free. An apartment costs me 1,200 a month in rent, and another 700 in cable, Internet, electricity, trash, heat, and water. I was paying 1,900 a month to spend an average of 13 days per month physically there. If you do the math, I spent 22,800 to live at my apartment for 156 days a year. That comes out to 146 per night.So by getting rid of the car, and apartment, my bills go from 4,278 a month to 1,522.Now up my grocery eating out allotment from 800 a month to 1,200 a month, and then add what I will have to pay out of pocket for hotels, and transportation rental car, cabs, trains 1,352 for hotel, 500 for trans say another 200 for replacement clothes laundry. That brings by monthly bills to 3974, about 300 less per month than having an apartment.Spreadsheet for reference:The 1352 allowance gives me a budget of 104 per night for a hotel. Very easily done. For that I get heat, or AC, cable TV, WIFI, water, electricity, and trash. Almost every hotel also offers free snacks, free coffee, free breakfast, a pool, a gym, and laundry services. Some offer a free light dinner, or at least a cheese crackers spread in the lobby.This brings me to the next level of the company expensed travel game: corporate rates. Most big companies have negotiated discount rates with the larger hotel chains. Through networking and online researching I have cultivated a list of over two hundred corporate discount codes for hotels, rental cars and airlines. For example, I can stay in Times Square for just over one hundred dollars any night of the week. In the last four years only two clerks have asked me for credentials when I tried to use a corporate code. I, of course have a fake business card for each company that I have a good code for.If you are thinking what I am thinking, you are saying to yourself; Doesnt using a corporate rate drop the price and eat into your points earnings?The correct answer is: Yes. And that is why I rarely use it on nights I stay when the company is paying. There are exceptions. In San Diego I can stay downtown - close enough to throw a rock into the harbor from my balcony for eighty-eight dollars a night with one code. Every so often I choose cheap luxury over points. But most of the time I make sure I find a room that is right at my one hundred and fifty dollar per night budget - never more, never less. On the nights its on my dime, I always use one.So with all the bills assumptions in place, that leaves me just over 1,300 a month left over. Lets say I under estimated, and need more money. Add 300 more to my monthly bills, and leave me 1,000 a month. Im going to take 600 of that, and add it to my 600 loan payment, and pay 1200 a month. At that rate I will be debt free in 30 months. Im going to bank 200 a month for emergencies retirement, and have 200 for fun money.I walk out my door today for the last time. After a quick trip to FL free on airline points I leave for NYC next week, and my adventure begins.So, am I delusional insane?A  <response>: Ive been there, although it was sort of an inverse situation: I lived in a large city and did a fair amount of business travel, but for many years I went out of town close to EVERY weekend. And like you, I learned how to cut corners; in my case it was taking extra time off here and there -- if the boss wasnt in on Friday, no one would know better if I left a few hours early. Its fun for awhile, and I encourage you to do it. But at some point, you will burn out.Maybe not from all the places youll travel, and maybe not from being homeless per se. But I ran into two annoyances: all the planning, and all the mechanics of getting to and from places.And that was with lifetime airline and hotel status. 1K on the old United for many years, the best airline status there ever was.For EVERY night work isnt paying for, you have to figure out where you want to go, where you want to stay, how you want to get there, where you are relative to your budget... and then deal with security, travel delays, lines everywhere, billing mistakes, points that wont post, shitty customer service, maybe the occasional expense that doesnt post on time or gets questioned, people sitting in your assigned Economy Plus seat asking you to trade for 29B, high school groups getting in food fights in the hallway at 3am, and so on.Youll be doing all this travel, and then spending all weekend in your hotel room because you just need to decompress, and spend some time neither going anywhere or in the process of going anywhere.Occasionally you wont feel like going to the airport and its assorted hassles. Or some unexpected expense has busted your budget, on in the inverse theres some upcoming expense you want to save for, or you just decide the hassle isnt worth the cost. And youll run out of reasons to visit San Francisco or wherever, and suddenly every weekend is at a nondescript Courtyard in suburban St. Louis.This sounds like a first-world problem, and it is. But you start wondering what the greater point is, and thinking about an exit strategy.Then your preferred airline or hotel chain guts its loyalty program, as EVERY airline and hotel chain has done in recent years, and the things you took for granted upgrades, redeeming something for X points become a lot more expensive or impossible.Again, go for it. But put a expiration date on it, maybe a year or two summers, then review your lifestyle and ask yourself how much its all worth it.After some 10 years of this my exit strategy was to move to the place I was taking the most weekend trips to. And now I dont really want to be anywhere else. I found on that you can sell your airline and hotel points for one penny per point. I know that doesnt sound like a lot, but when you are dealing with millions of miles, it adds up. Sell a million miles you get ten thousand dollars. I did that four years ago, and all in one transaction. A guy wired me the money, and I transferred him the points. Ten thousand bucks in my pocket, just like that. This is against every airline and hotel chains terms and conditions. And they work those sites. I know people whove have had their accounts zeroed out they can still fly or stay but they are banned from the rewards program and in some cases lose their status. You can get away with it a couple times, but keep it up and youre asking for trouble. Youre essentially risking your lifestyle doing this. 