Are you wondering how to become a digital nomad with no experience? Maybe you are in a specialist field like astronomy wondering how you can work from anywhere.

The world we live in is changing rapidly leaving many people in an unpredictable environment where they need to change quickly.

In the last 10 years alone terms like digital nomad, location independence and work from anywhere continues to become more popular.

Just in my city alone the amount of co-working spaces is on the rise as well as platforms are being launched for local employers to hire remote employees.

Many people continue to struggle with the concept of working remotely or working for several employers from home.

Some even go as far as to dismiss it as something that only a few crazy people are doing and that it would never become mainstream.

In this post, I did a video interview with Rob who is considered to be the world's first digital nomad.

Join me as I ask Rob all the pertinent questions so that he can tell you more about his experience after many years of working and traveling.

Who is Rob?

He is a writer, blogger and online marketer who helps people to create an online income so that they can go anywhere, do anything and be anyone.

Why do you make this claim?

He's been a writer for over 30 years. He was a journalist and he switched over to become a copywriter when he discovered that they get paid more than journalists.

He became a freelance writer in July of 1988 and quit his full-time job at an Ad agency.

He's been running his own freelance copywriting business for a number of years where he had his ups and downs.

Some good years and not so good years. It is a fun way to live. As the modern world gives us the technology we need to work from anywhere on the planet.

He believes that it is a fantastic life and opportunity and he wants to offer the same for his coaching clients.

Why he is the world's first digital nomad?

He currently lives in Thailand which is a real hub for digital nomads. He has met hundreds if not thousands of nomads over the years.

Many of them say that they have doing this for a long time like for 5 or even 10 years. However, he has been doing this for 20 years now.

He's yet to meet anyone who has been a digital nomad fo as long as he has been doing it.

He started his digital nomad lifestyle in Ireland. Where he took his family in an old, rusty Volkswagen Camper Van.

At the time, he just started an online business. He decided to go on vacation to Ireland with his family. He just needed to check that everything was going well.

Traveling around Ireland in those days there wasn't WiFi, co-working spaces or Internet cafes.

The only way he could get online is if he drove into a town somewhere in Ireland and go knock on someone's door and offer them IRL£10 to let him use their Internet connection for 30-60 minutes so he can check his email.

Some people will tell him to get lost and others would invite them in and they will make new friends. He will also get his work done.

Her worked his way around Ireland doing this and had a fantastic trip. This is the point when he realised that this could be a new way of working.

The phrase digital nomad did not yet exist at the time.