"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds [women] and fast cars – the rest I just squandered" -- George Best
I am curious to know what kind of profession has the option to be a digital nomad. They only one I figured is being a journalist or a writer.
What types of business do you do being a nomad?
Roles that are what is now called "developer relations" or similar effectively force you into an adjacent lifestyle.
Freelance development can often support this kind of thing.
Basically, any sort of remote job.
What's kind of amusing/terrible is that while doing this I was almost always living in very high COL areas, while a digital nomad would be off somewhere extremely inexpensive. Oh well, money isn't everything.
When I was doing it for my friend, it was never that big a deal. But stuff did come up every now and then that needed to be handled.
Having said that, you'll need a home base where you "officially" live and can legally work from--and, if you're an employee of a company (i.e. not an independent consultant), you probably need to be up-front about what you're doing and many companies may have issues with the legal ramifications.
That said, in practice, before the pandemic I traveled about a third of the time so having some sort of nominal home base in the US and otherwise being on the road really wouldn't have been that much of a stretch compared to my usual. I do marketing-related stuff for a computer software company.
The bad part was that I ended up in my early 30's with no money, no job, and a very unattractive CV/Resume. The good part is that I was socially transformed. I'm way more confident now, especially around groups of strangers.
I never wrote about this before nor have I ever written a blog, but I met plenty of people living similar lives. Anyway I guess my point is that there are plenty of people out there doing things without blogging about it. But you're not going to meet them online.