{"id":9496,"date":"2016-10-05T17:31:33","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T21:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/?p=9496"},"modified":"2016-10-05T17:31:33","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T21:31:33","slug":"this-couple-balances-work-and-play-while-cruising-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/this-couple-balances-work-and-play-while-cruising-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"This Couple Balances Work and Play While Cruising The World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFreedom.\u201d That is how Victoria Fine describes her life.In April, Fine left a big\u00a0job at Slate to launch her own business, Finally, a growth hacking company that offers editorial and audience development solutions to grow digital audiences.\u00a0<span class=\"tweet_quote\">In June, she set sail with her husband and now lives full-time on a sailboat,\u00a0traveling the planet and living a life most\u00a0people\u00a0only dream about.<br \/>\n<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u201cWe can go anywhere we want, at our own schedule, without depending on anything but wind and sun to get us there. I have clients to answer to, but ultimately, I\u2019m my own boss,\u201d says Fine. \u201cI control my life completely. That\u2019s a rare and beautiful thing that I don\u2019t take for granted.\u201d<br \/>\nAnd just to make you even more jealous: She is making way more money and getting way more time off than she ever did while working at a full-time job.<br \/>\nSo how is she pulling it off? 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