After quitting her corporate job, a 30-year-old found a way to make a living by traveling the world

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Amy Truong, 30, is many things.

She's a traveler, based in Hawaii a few months out of the year but steadily making her way across the globe. She's a blogger, sharing stories, photos, musings, and helpful hints on her website, Generic Dreams. And she's an entrepreneur who founded her own travel agency called Up and Explore while continuing to work remotely in software testing as a "digital nomad."

One thing she is not, though, is timid. She's up for anything on her trips, whether it's scaling mountains via closed-off hikes or bribing guards to explore abandoned buildings.

"The thing about traveling," she told INSIDER, "is that you don't want to say no to what could be a great adventure."

Amy Truong got the travel bug on vacation time from her corporate job in tech and hasn’t looked back since.

“I figured there's got to be a way to make this a lifestyle ... to do it more and make it a part of my life, not just a few weeks out of the year,” she told INSIDER.

So she found a job where she could work remotely as a “digital nomad” and began traveling the world, blogging about her adventures on her site, Generic Dreams.