Guides
The reading before the flight
Licensing, housing, taxes, and the first-week logistics — written in plain language and updated as the rules change.
Paperwork & money
The boring half that decides the year.
Licensing · 7 min
Compact states, walk-throughs, and timing
Which licenses travel with you, which take twelve weeks, and what to start today.
Taxes · 9 min
Tax home, duplicated expenses, and receipts
What actually qualifies a tax home, and the records to keep from day one.
Contracts · 6 min
Reading a contract for the clauses that bite
Guaranteed hours, cancellation, floating, and what a completion bonus really costs.
Living it
Thirteen weeks at a time, repeated.
Housing · 8 min
Finding housing you won't dread coming home to
Where to search, what a fair monthly rate looks like, and the red flags in a listing.
Packing · 5 min
Thirteen weeks in two bags
A packing list organized by bag, plus the things worth buying on arrival instead.
Days off · 5 min
A day-off plan for the weeks you're running on empty
Small, cheap, close by — the version of exploring that survives night shift.
Newsletter
New guides, once a month
Plus gear finds and booking deals worth knowing about before the next contract starts.
The kit the guides keep mentioning
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