Barbara Koehler, from having a face-to-face job in Porto to teleworking from Bali: "I live in paradise"

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Envy, right?

Well, a little at the beginning and a lot at the end, when he tells me how comfortable he is with his new life, which began on January 10.

That day she and her boyfriend, the Spanish Andrés Millán, arrived on the Indonesian island.

But not on vacation, but to stay and telework.

"I really like to travel and last year I went to Sri Lanka to do a yoga course and I loved both the place and its climate. From then

and I decided to come to Bali because it seems like a place that has everything I'm looking for: yoga, surfing -I'm learning now and I love it-, beach, good people, good food...", says a smiling Barbara.

The choice of place

Actually, it all started many months before, when she and her boyfriend began to mature the idea.

"He worked in an online law firm and had all the availability to do this. I wanted to, but still couldn't because of my previous job, which was face-to-face. But we had this common goal and I started looking for remote jobs intensively, I

because I really wanted to follow this dream".

And she found it in the nutrition software Nutrium, a Portuguese company that also works with the Spanish market.

But why Bali?

"We were very clear that it was going to be here because it

and, since our income is from Portugal and Spain, it would be a good way to be able to stay here longer, and also because of the weather. Also, I am a yoga teacher and here there is a very strong culture, almost everyone does it. And for surfing. It brings together all the passions of the two".

doing accounts

Although at first they planned to rent a house, Barbara and Andrés live in a hotel for financial reasons: "It costs

And we eat and dine in restaurants, because we only pay 9 euros between the two of us."

That, plus the monthly rental of the motorcycle in which they both travel: 40 euros.

Barbara Koehler in a Bali restaurant.

The numbers are coming out and Barbara is also compensated by her new way of life.

When she asks her what she has gained with her decision to move to Bali, she does not doubt it for a second:

And also knowing a culture that is very different from ours, is something very important to improve oneself."

A disrupted schedule

Many would pay to live their day to day life: "I always wake up at 8, have breakfast, go to yoga class or surf, or both, and

eating and on the 3 I start work. At 8 I take a dinner break while my colleagues in Europe are eating, and then I continue working until 12".

This 'changed' schedule is one of the drawbacks of Barbara's new life, who admits that at first it was a challenge but, of course, it does not prevent her from enjoying her privileged status: "If I put on a scale the good and the bad of being here, without a doubt

The benefits of teleworking

In addition, it has meant an apprenticeship: "It requires you to be very well organized and

because it forces you to have very clear rules and ideas, and to know what should be done and when. Because here it is easy to stay on the beach all the afternoon, but no, you have to work, create your schedules and know that you have such time to do what you like and then start working".

In the pool with the computer.

And this system doesn't work for her at all, because she is very clear that at work she performs better than when she was in Portugal: "Since I am so comfortable and happy here, I

When I work at night, I'm already thinking the next morning, what am I going to do".

Of another skin?

What does a person have to have to dare to take this step?

At this moment the firmest Bárbara appears: "It is a process that you have to be very clear about, be very determined, because if you have doubts you end up rejecting it. You have to go out and

Barbara enjoying one of her passions, yoga.

For example, when he raised it at his company, just a week after he started working there.

They told me: 'we don't know you very well, but if you say you're capable of doing it...'. At that moment you have to assume your position and not hesitate. If they see you with clear ideas they realize".

no return date

Barbara assures that this move is

"But every day I think that I would like to prolong it. I have to take advantage of the fact that I am young, that I still do not have children and that I am free," she says.

The young Portuguese woman drinks a juice in a restaurant in Bali.

The visa lasts for 60 days, but both Barbara and Andrés are already thinking of

it and staying for a long time in their private paradise.

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