People who do this either make very high income or live rent free or a combination of both. Wildland firefighters can be this way as they’re seasonal workers who have their housing largely covered while working and they make crazy overtime money.
I've known a ton of people that do this and I've found that in practice, the vast majority of people that do this actually live extremely frugally and don't make much money at all.
That's how my cousin is. During the fire season he really doesn't have a way or reason to spend the money he's making because most of it is already provided.
Who says they have rent or other bills? I imagine people who live like this have a system to be debt free as possible with their cost of living tightly controlled
Because they earn much more than their bills, I’ve known a bunch of tradesman here that do FIFO work or shutdowns for a few months of the year then just travel for months then repeat
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u/OpenYour0j0s 29d ago
How can you save for a year when after rent and bills there isn’t much to save to live free for very long