• Claire Sturzaker is a full-time traveler and solo backpacker who has been to 40 international locations. 
• It began 11 years in the past, when she was dumped and fired in the identical week. 
• Sturzaker mentioned her scenario freed her to journey, and she or he’s been on the highway ever since. 

Claire Sturzaker received dumped and fired through the week of her thirtieth birthday.

11 years later, she’s a full-time traveler — and she or he says that dreadful week was the most effective factor that ever occurred to her.

“Ranging from nothing gave me the arrogance to comprehend I might begin once more wherever and nonetheless be tremendous,” instructed Insider of the expertise.

However Sturzaker did not all the time see it so clearly. Again in 2012, Sturzaker was working as a marriage coordinator in her residence of Manchester, England.

She mentioned did not love the job, so she wasn’t shocked when she received a name from Human Assets about her termination. However the double whammy of being fired and damaged up with all in the identical week triggered a midlife disaster, she instructed Insider.

“I noticed that I had nothing. I had no relationship, no job, no home,” she added.

Getting fired gave her freedom

After the preliminary panic, Sturzaker discovered freedom in her scenario and determined it was the proper alternative to journey.

With sufficient cash to final her three months, Sturzaker booked a one-way ticket to Barcelona, the place she studied overseas again in school.  

Sturzaker mentioned she fell in love with the Spanish metropolis and ended up getting a job and settling down there for a few years. She labored as an govt assistant at a software program firm and mentioned she loved it for some time — till she received the itch to journey once more. 

“I used to be getting uninterested in doing issues for different folks on a regular basis,” she mentioned. “I assumed, I do not need to be caught in a job that I do not love and sit in an workplace for the remainder of my life.”

She determined to be a full-time traveler

So in 2015, Sturzaker mentioned she give up her job in Barcelona to proceed on together with her travels. She credit her braveness to getting fired again in Manchester. 

“I by no means would have had the arrogance to give up my job in Barcelona to go touring had it not been for that,” she added.

With nothing however a backpack, Sturzaker determined to go to South America for a 12 months “and simply see what occurs,” she mentioned. 

Sturzaker instructed Insider that a few of her most treasured recollections are from that journey, like when she noticed the solar rise over Machu Pichu or when she took a ship down the Amazon River. 

After a 12 months of backpacking throughout the continent, Sturzaker mentioned she realized that she by no means needed to return to an workplace job.

“Then I actually began desirous about: What can I do to maintain touring?” she instructed Insider.

Sturzaker began her weblog, Tales of a Backpacker, the place she writes about her experiences and shares her finest journey ideas with readers, like journey without cost or her backpacking necessities. 

Minimize to eight years later and Sturzaker continues to be touring. She’s gathered lasting recollections from 40 international locations world wide and she or he says she’s nonetheless grateful for the nightmare week of her thirtieth birthday. 

“Getting fired was the kick I wanted to vary my life for the higher,” she mentioned.