I’d guess people are not aware that other options exist. They see it as a choice between (a) having a job, and (b) unemployment and poverty. The examples you said are not widely known; most people would probably have problem inventing them.
Some examples feel short-sighted. Do you want to be a vagabond all your life? If not, how difficult it will be later to find a job when you write “vagabond” as your previous experience?
I don’t know what is typical in USA (there is always a chance that what I see online are just selected extreme stories), but I got an impression that in USA employers pay a lot of attention to your previous jobs. For example I remember people asking in web fora how should they explain at a job interview a one-month gap between their two jobs, as if that were a huge red flag. In Slovakia, my job history has a few gaps and no one asks me about that. (Well, I try not to make it too obvious, so in my job history I only write years, not months and days.) So the difference could be that in USA the employers will punish you for having made unusual choices in the past; in such case making an unusual choice is very unwise unless you want to keep it forever.
Living as a boyfriend feels immoral. We may have emancipation for women, but emancipation for men is nowhere in the plan yet; and probably will never be, because for economy it is better this way.
Working only for a part of year seems great, but it is an option only for people who (a) can make significantly more money than they need, (b) are not dependent on one employer, which might not tolerate them the long vacations, and (c) have enough financial discipline to prevent their expenses growing proportionally to their income. Most people who can do this are probably in IT; but most people in IT probably don’t have the skills necessary to do this.
I’d guess people are not aware that other options exist. They see it as a choice between (a) having a job, and (b) unemployment and poverty. The examples you said are not widely known; most people would probably have problem inventing them.
Some examples feel short-sighted. Do you want to be a vagabond all your life? If not, how difficult it will be later to find a job when you write “vagabond” as your previous experience?
I don’t know what is typical in USA (there is always a chance that what I see online are just selected extreme stories), but I got an impression that in USA employers pay a lot of attention to your previous jobs. For example I remember people asking in web fora how should they explain at a job interview a one-month gap between their two jobs, as if that were a huge red flag. In Slovakia, my job history has a few gaps and no one asks me about that. (Well, I try not to make it too obvious, so in my job history I only write years, not months and days.) So the difference could be that in USA the employers will punish you for having made unusual choices in the past; in such case making an unusual choice is very unwise unless you want to keep it forever.
Living as a boyfriend feels immoral. We may have emancipation for women, but emancipation for men is nowhere in the plan yet; and probably will never be, because for economy it is better this way.
Working only for a part of year seems great, but it is an option only for people who (a) can make significantly more money than they need, (b) are not dependent on one employer, which might not tolerate them the long vacations, and (c) have enough financial discipline to prevent their expenses growing proportionally to their income. Most people who can do this are probably in IT; but most people in IT probably don’t have the skills necessary to do this.