Another Consultant Perk: Pick Your Weather
As the post title indicates, there is yet another perk to being a consultant. If you were so inclined, you can pick what climate you want to live and work in during specific times of the year.
In the southern parts of the United States it can get incredibly hot and humid during the summer. As a consultant, pack your bags and land a gig in Wisconsin to avoid the heat.
When winter hits and you want to avoid negative 20 degree temperatures and ten feet of snow on the ground, pack up and find a gig in Texas.
The simple fact is you may have a home base where you own a house or live in an apartment, but you may spend a large portion of your time on the road, living out of an extended stay hotel. Money is always an important consideration, but consider what the temperature is going to be when you get there. Why be miserable if you don’t have to be?
That, or you can just work in San Diego year round. 72 degrees with a slight breeze. Jerks.
Then again in California you have to deal with wildfires, earthquakes, and mud slides… so all is not well.
Bottom line: go someplace new, someplace you will enjoy.