At 30 years old, Jokke Sommer‘s zeal for life is contagious. Each day, he risks his life to do what he loves and lives like it’s his last—literally.

Sommer is a professional BASE jumper, one of the few thousand brave souls on the planet who attempt the most dangerous sport known to man, with approximately one death every 500-1,000 jumps.

If you don’t know what BASE jumping is, it involves squeezing into a skin-tight, full-body nylon wingsuit and gliding over the jagged edge of a mountain at 160 MPH.

Sommer has been responsible for making basejumping popular on youtube and is one of the best flyers in the world, sponsored by GoPro and RedBull, whose daredevil feats have earned him millions of video views and hundreds of thousands of followers across social media.

Unlike most extreme sportists, Sommer doesn’t have a lifetime of experience in his craft. In fact, just years ago, he used to be a Kindergarten teacher and base-jumped whenever he could make time.

This week on Unconventional Life, I interviewed Sommer about how to make your side-hustle your full-time job.

Growing up in Son, Norway, Sommer says he always had a taste for life’s greatest thrills. He was fascinated with all things that could fly and dreamed of flying one day.

Though he graduated college with a degree in graphic design, Sommer became a Kindergarten teacher because of the flexibility and the lifestyle it afforded him. As a teacher’s assistant, he was able to take days or weeks off at a time to go BASE jumping.

“That was always the number one thing for me… not getting a job that paid big money but getting a job that was flexible,” Sommer says.

Sommer started BASE jumping as a side hobby, a “getaway from the office.” He never anticipated it would one day become a fruitful source of income. In fact, he lived a very lean lifestyle just to be able to afford the equipment—at times sleeping out of his car or camping in tents.

Sommer got his big break when he decided to post a video to YouTube of one of his jumps. The video went viral and sparked the inspiration for a YouTube series called Dream Lines, which follows Sommer on his exhilarating flights down the mountain.

Some millions of video views later, Sommer began getting sponsorships from big-name brands like RedBull and GoPro. Soon after he quit his job teaching and was getting paid to BASE jump and travel to the world’s most exotic jumping sites.

Below, Sommer shares practical advice for how to make your side-hustle your full-time job.

Success Is Not Always Obvious

The income from BASE jumping enabled Sommer to quit his job as a Kindergarten teacher and pursue flying full-time. “I guess I got rewarded by actually daring to chase something that’s not an obvious success. It was not something that I knew was going to go well,” Sommer says.

Though Sommer’s success is an anomaly, his story is relatable. How many of us feel like we have a yearning to do something more with our lives, to take bigger risks and experience more of what life has to offer?

Though your side hustle may not seem promising, if you love it and do it well, stick with it. When you’re the best at what you do, it doesn’t matter what it is—people will pay attention, and attention is today’s most valuable online currency.

Prioritize Freedom Whenever Possible

Sommer says to chase what you love because in it you will feel free. Let your drive be living life on your own terms, free of being told what to do or how to spend your time.

“It is scary to jump off a cliff but to me it’s way scarier to not be free. To be told every day you have to do this, you have to do that, is way scarier than possibly dying young,” Sommer says.

Be Willing To Take Risks

The trade we make between giving life our all and playing it safe may actually be keeping us from a life well spent in the long run. Be willing to take risks—share the time you spend in the office with an activity that makes you feel alive and like you are fully tapping into life’s well of joy and enthusiasm.

“This concept of living life on the edge, you grab life in a different way. Every day you’re always excited and happy and then it’s gone. People ask me, ‘aren’t you afraid of dying young?’ No—I’m already 500 years old. In order to do all the things I’ve done before I was thirty the average person would have to live to be 500,” Sommer says.

Sommer shares more about taking risks in his chapter of the upcoming book, 3 Billion Under 30.

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Maybe you’ve ogled over newsfeed photos of your entrepreneurial friends working from their laptops overlooking the sea cliffs of Greece, the rice fields of Bali, or the mountains of Peru.

For many millennials, working remotely is the ultimate career aspiration. The problem is, it’s often just that—an aspiration. We dream of this lifestyle but think it is out of reach for us unless we were to quit our jobs.

In reality, location-independence is becoming increasingly accessible for the everyday worker. Over half of Americans arecurrently working part-time remotely, and that number is rising steadily. As business infrastructure yields to digital technology,more and more companies are willing to let employees work from outside the office.

One founder says you could just be a conversation away from making remote work a reality for you.

Meet Greg Caplan, the founder of Remote Year, a one-year program offering 75 millennials the experience of working in 12 global cities for a month each. Since its launch in 2015, Remote Year has received over 300,000 applications and $12 million in funding. Caplan says the majority of participants are actually completing the program within traditional jobs.

This week on Unconventional Life, Caplan shares how you can successfully pitch your employer on the remote working arrangement of your dreams.

Caplan’s taste for international travel developed at a young age, when, growing up, his parents opened up their home to foreigners from around the world. Caplan recalls living with children from Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Russia and the Congo, usually for years at a time.

What stuck with Caplan was a sense of community that transcended geographic borders. With Remote Year, Caplan sought to recreate this experience for a modern generation disconnected from community.

“Community is not always readily available,” Caplan says. “Sometimes it’s something you have to go out and create on your own.”

On the first day of Remote Year’s launch, Caplan was flooded with over a thousand applications. “I shared it with a couple friends over Google Chat and it started to go nuts. Over the next couple months over fifty thousand people signed up. There wasn’t even much information but we really struck a chord—people desired this experience,” he says.

A common theme amongst applicants was a desire to create workability for remote living within their current careers. People wanted to know how they could enroll their employers in a remote working agreement that allowed for travel and an open schedule.

In response, Caplan developed a strategy that began producing consistent results. Before long, Remote Year’s body consisted of more individuals in standard jobs than not.

“Remote work can be done—all that needs to happen is the way bosses and leaders think about remote work,” says Caplan.

Do you desire a remote lifestyle within your current career? Below, Caplan shares his proven strategy to pitch a remote work arrangement your employer can’t refuse.

1. Be professional. Create a formal proposal for your case. You’ll want to include a detailed plan for communication, possible issues and setbacks, and how you’ll work to mitigate them. “If you’re really structured and formal about all of the different points that you’re addressing and you present it in a professional way you’re much more likely to get by your boss or business leader,” Caplan says.

2. Identify the added value. Studies show remote workers are more productive, more collaborative, and take less sick days than their office counterparts. In addition, travel has been shown to improve creativity and innovation. With research in your favor, you can create an effective case for why you’ll become more valuable to your organization as a remote employee.

3. Meet the goals and objectives of your organization.Think holistically about how your proposal will serve your organization at all levels and across all departments. Understand what your organization’s primary objectives are and orient your case in the highest service to those needs. The more consideration you put into the entire structure of your organization, the easier it will be for your boss, and their supervisors, to say yes.

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