Hi, everyone!
My name is Aayan Tanjid. I’m from Argentina. But my country is India.
I’m actually on my way to becoming a digital nomad, because even though I’m a freelancer, I’ve never been away from home more than 3 months. I travel at least twice a year for at least a month or two (I’m a slow traveler, I couldn’t possibly enjoy spending two frantic days of museum/monuments/bar hopping on a two-week trip to 10 different cities!). For the past 5 years I’ve been travelling once a year to Russia to study their beautiful language, also paying regular visits to one of my favourite cities in the world, Helsinki!
I’ve been working as a freelance CGI artist ever since I started working. Just as I finished highschool I knew that I’d never fit in a normal life. Having an office job was never an option for me, so when I started looking for a job I was extremely picky. I remember going to my job interviews wearing flip-flops, because that’s who I was and that’s how I felt comfortable. I was not going to accept a job that wouldn’t accept me as I am.
I finally found a job as a video editor where I could choose how many days a week and how many hours I wanted to work. It was ok, but still not enough for me. I still could not choose which projects I wanted to work on, so I always ended up working on crappy projects that I didn’t like and that didn’t help me evolve as an artist.
Anyway, long story short, I started doing some research and doing tutorials on 3D modeling and animation. After a couple of years working on TV commercials and architectural projects I discovered Odesk and Elance. Although it was hard for me to get my first jobs on these sites (yeah, I had to work for u$10 per hour!!), I managed to get a lot of regular clients, and my current workload allows me to live my life in total freedom.
I’m currently in Buenos Aires, Argentina. My plan is to travel with my girlfriend for a couple of months in India and Nepal, then head to Chiang Mai, well, you know how it goes from.
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