Questions to Ask Yourself Before Becoming Location Independent

It is important to a bit of soul searching before you start planning your location independent lifestyle. 

Figure out what you want to do and define short and long term goals to achieve it. For us this process was a long time in the making.

We’ve always preferred to work remotely and keep our own schedule. We made the most of this and traveled as much as possible. Unfortunately it took us several years to realize that we needed a new lifestyle instead of different ways to live the same.

To get there faster than we did, ask yourself the following questions. Your answers will help you realize what you’re after and how much work you’re willing to put into it. There are no right or wrong answers. Our expectations and experiences should not be yours.

How many hours per week do you want to work?At home we work 40+ hours per week. While traveling we try to work less than three days a week. And some weeks we choose not to work at all. The type of job you do will help define how often you need to work. How many hours you work will hopefully be up to you.

How much money can you save?We save as much as possible and live as cheaply as possible while we’re at home. Savings usually finances the start up costs of a trip, which can be expensive. Money in the bank also extends your travels if your income is reduced, and acts a safety net in case of emergency.

How much effort are you willing to put into adapting your profession for life on the road?We started this journey with jobs that could be done from home. It did not take us much time to transform our remote jobs into location independent jobs because of our experience. If your business is not service based, you may have an easier time than us. If your work currently requires you be at a desk 40 hours a week, the process will be longer and more difficult. 

What travel destinations interest you the most?An easy question: where do you want to go? We’re researching a long trip to South America, and will probably check out Asia after that. Where you go is up to you. Just keep in mind that it’s more expensive to live in cities and developed first-world countries. A $15 day in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam easily translates to $50 in rural areas of the U.S.

How much time do you want to spend planning your trip?We like planning our trips. It gives us a break from the daily grind of life at home. Some people prefer to plan as little as possible and make it up as they go along. Others like having detailed travel itineraries. We’re somewhere in the middle. We prefer to plan for flexibility and fun rather than a rigidly defined daily life or potential chaos.

How much time do you want to spend updating your plans while you travel?We spend less time planning once we’ve hit the road. We take care of critical stuff like reservations, buying tickets and updating our budget. Reading travel books or websites in our downtime and when we’re moving between locations tends to give us enough information. For the rest, we play it by ear.

How long do you want to spend at your favorite places?In our experience, longer is better. It’s cheaper and you have more time to experience what local life is like. We’ve had trips where half of our time was spent moving from point A to point B. We’ve since made an effort to avoid that scenario. If you feel like you need a vacation from your travels, you’re doing it wrong. it's also a lot easier to get work done if you aren't constantly on the move.

How much time do you want to spend traveling between locations?How much actual traveling do you want to do? Do you want to fly quickly between major cities? Or would you prefer to make your way slowly along the back roads? We’ve done both. What matters most is how many days are spent on the move. Travel days are always more stressful and tiring making it more difficult to get work done. It’s best to spread them out to keep from becoming exhausted.

How do you prefer to travel? Do you want to drive your own car, rent a car, fly, take public or private transportation?How you get from A to B helps define how you’ll plan your trip. For shorter trips we either rent a car or take public transportation. Longer trips might involve buying and outfitting a vehicle, but there’s no reason to rule out public or hired transportation. When possible, we prefer the freedom and added comforts of having our own form of transportation. This also makes working easier.

What worldly possessions must accompany you on your travels?Stuff. The bane of a life in constant motion. The more you have, the more restricted you will be. You need much less to survive on the road than you think you will need at home. Bring the minimum you need to live and work. Consider your ability to pick up what you’re missing on the road. 

Will you maintain a house, car, storage etc. at your current residence while traveling?  This was easy for us. We rent houses, own cheap cars, and have friends and family willing to borrow our stuff while we’re gone. Paying bills for things you don’t get to enjoy while you’re traveling is not much fun. If practical, rent or sell big stuff to avoid paying for storage.

What other monthly bills will you have?  For example: loan payments, insurance and medical expenses.Monthly bills on the road can add up. We do our best to minimize these expenses. Credit cards and loans get paid off quickly. We make sure to budget for unavoidable bills like insurance and medical expenses.

Source: http://www.liferemotely.com/work-while-traveling/getting-started/26-questions-to-ask-yourself-before-becoming-location-independent

Happiest Countries in the World

Denmark, Norway Denmark, Norway, Switzerland and the Netherlands are the happiest countries in the world, according to the U.N.-sponsored “World Happiness Report” released Monday by Columbia University’s Earth Institute. The report infers happiness using a number of social and economic metrics, measured using data from 2010 to 2012. 
The very least happy countries, all in sub-Saharan Africa, are Togo, Benin, Central African 

Republic, Burundi and Rwanda. Syria also falls within the bottom 10. The United States ranks 17th of the 156 ranked countries, behind Mexico (16) and Panama (15).

The happiness metrics are highest in the Western, developed world: North America, Western Europe and Australia. But, as you can see in the above map, it's also quite high in much of Latin America and on the Arabian Peninsula. It tends to be lower in poorer countries, with some interesting outliers and sub-trends.

The science of assigning a concrete number to something as abstract as happiness is, unsurprisingly, neither straightforward nor uncontroversial. This report used three measures of happiness, each evaluated by Gallup polls: life satisfaction on a scale of 1 to 10, positive emotional state the prior day (Did you smile a lot yesterday? Did you experience enjoyment?) and negative emotional state the prior day (Did you experience anger or sadness?). The researchers aimed for a sample size of 3,000 people in each country over three years of Gallup polls — which, as they point out, risks skewing the data as events change within those countries over those years.

Here are regional trends in happiness metrics over time:

The statistics do, however, seem to mirror some wider medium- and long-term social trends, such as the global recession and the ongoing political instability in parts of the Middle East and Central Africa. Between the 2005-07 period and the 2010-12 period, happiness fell most in the Middle East than in any other part of the world. Greece, Spain, Italy and Portugal also did not fare well: On average, people there rated their lives about two-thirds of a point lower than they would before the financial crisis.

Happiness also correlates to things like life expectancy and GDP per capita, though perhaps not quite how you’d expect. While longer lives and more money do correlate to national happiness, they’re not nearly as important as social support, which researchers define as “having someone to count on in times of trouble.” The report also found that perceptions of corruption and generosity (the latter measured by donations to charity in the past month) are better indicators than GDP per capita.

That could help explain, in part, why Scandinavian countries consistently rank at the top: Their wide-ranging social welfare policies, per Denmark’s Ministry of Social Affairs and Integration, tend to be much stronger than in richer Western countries and are based on the principle that all citizens have a safety net “in case they encounter social problems such as unemployment, sickness or dependency.”

But while there’s obvious value in understanding aggregate happiness — it contributes, after all, to things like health and economic productivity — it’s unclear how well reports like this one really capture that. Countless factors can influence an individual’s perception of her happiness: the order of survey questions, a bad day at work, the weather. As The Post’s Peter Whoriskey reported in 2012, researchers have debated a host of alternative survey methods, from diary-keeping to digital devices, just to overcome the tendency of people to answer these questions differently based on the time of day.

There’s also an entire discourse on the philosophy of happiness, which economist Deirdre McCloskey examined at enormous length in her article skewering happiness economics last year. At one point, she points to the case of a theoretical man “tormented by starvation and civil war” in South Sudan who rated himself as three, “very happy,” on a happiness scale of one to three. But if he won an immigration lottery and left South Sudan, McCloskey argues, he’d undoubtedly become happier. It’s all relative, a matter of perception and experience.

Other economists might point out that McCloskey’s example ties subjective happiness to public policy, which is exactly the type of link they’re trying to make. That’s the big so-what of these rankings and other reports like it: One day, with more and better data, policymakers could embrace happiness, rather than GPD per capita, as an end-goal metric. In fact, former British Cabinet secretary Gus O’Donnell argues that that t transition has already begun.

“This is only the second World Happiness Report,” he writes, “but already the importance of well-being as the goal of policy is spreading.”

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/09/10/a-fascinating-map-of-the-worlds-happiest-and-least-happy-countries/

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Travelling and Wanting to work out? Apps that help Travellers find Gyms

Travellers who want to skip the hotel fitness centre in favour of local gyms that may offer better equipment, classes and amenities can turn to new apps on their smartphones to buy a day pass to a nearby gym.

"Most hotel gyms are just a small row of treadmills, and maybe a half-complete weight rack. For anyone serious about working out, it's usually not enough," said Kevin Bracken, chief executive officer of Gymsurfing based in San Francisco, California.

Gymsurfing, a new iPhone app, helps travellers book day passes to professional gyms with their smartphones, without needing to plan ahead.

Users open the app to see gyms nearby and the price of a day pass, as well as other offers.

"You see a variety of gyms and amenities they offer, such as the type of equipment they have, and whether they have pools, saunas, or spas," said Bracken.

The gyms available through the app range from corporate-style with state-of-the-art equipment to old-school body building and family-style establishments, with day passes costing between $5 to $20.

The app features passes for gyms in San Francisco, New York City, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Miami and Toronto, with plans to include others.

"Our goal is make it so that as soon as you land in whatever city you're going to, you can find a place to work out," he said.

The company also plans to release a web app this week for Android phones and other devices.

Similar iPhone apps include OmFinder, which helps users find nearby yoga classes, and GymPoints to find U.S. gyms that provide one-time day passes and drop-in classes for activities such as martial arts classes or Pilates.

A survey of 500 business travellers in the United States showed most try to maintain a healthy diet and exercise, and just under half use the hotel gym to keep in shape, according to an American Express Global Business Travel.

However, business travel expert Chris McGinnis, editor of the website TravelSkills, said that many business travellers often forgo the gym because they can't fit workout clothes and shoes in their luggage.

"In the age of the carry-on bag, working out while on the road has kind of fallen to the wayside because there's not enough room for their clothes, particularly their shoes," he explained.

But he can see the appeal of the apps for travellers.

"Most hotels have gyms, but it may be a dank basement gym with no windows to the outside, or people might want the social experience of going to a gym, so in those cases an app might come in handy," he said.

Source: http://ibnlive.in.com/news/travelling-and-wanting-to-work-out-apps-that-help-travellers-find-gyms/474471-11.html

Studying abroad: Benefits

James Donald asks experts around the world to identify the top benefits of studying abroad, and key factors to consider when choosing a location.

"Graduate study is beneficial in providing the opportunity for students to study in a different country," says Elizabeth Dalferes, Assistant Director of Admission and Graduate Program Administration at Tulane Law School.

"With a wealth of universities offering graduate programs around the world, students will often pursue a master's degree at a foreign institution to gain a unique cultural experience while acquiring new skills. Spending time abroad can provide an excellent opportunity to make new contacts and build invaluable relationships with peers from around the world."

New knowledge and expertise

This view is backed up by Sarah Han of the Department of International Cooperation at the Korean Council for University Education: "Studying abroad at the postgraduate level provides an opportunity to expand one's field of view and helps one to understand and analyze problems and phenomena from a longer-term, worldwide perspective.

"Students are more open to new knowledge and expertise when abroad, and that knowledge is often more easily applicable and adaptable to situations requiring international interaction; thus one can expect to be more competitive in today's era of globalization.

"Language skills obtained while studying abroad will always be beneficial to the student and their home country in both the short- and long-term. Moreover, long-term experience in other cultures has a tendency to help one think objectively about oneself and one's home country, tolerate differences, and recognize and appreciate diversity."

"Studying abroad exposes you to different cultures and different landscapes," says Dee Roach, Group Manager, and European Marketing for the Navitas Education Group.

"You can gain new skills, and it can help you grow as a person. It is great for your long term prospects and career. Studying abroad definitely broadens your horizons; you can travel and have a more complete cultural immersion experience at the same time.

"My personal choice would be Australia because it is a great base from which to explore the whole of the Asia Pacific region, not to mention the country itself. Australia boasts every kind of geographical environment as well as some rare species of flora and fauna."

Improve your job prospects

Lauren Welch, head of advising for the US-UK Fulbright Commission in London agrees that studying abroad adds weight to your future job prospects.

"Employers are looking to graduates to have international experience either by studying or working abroad. Now there are many more opportunities to study and work abroad, or stay on and work afterwards.

"There are a lot of research opportunities for postgraduate students in the US - over $45 billion is spent on research. In the US you have the ability to shape your electives around your interests. There is a great flexibility and over 12,000 institutions which is a very wide range."

Lauren also says that studying abroad gives you a great opportunity to be near worldwide centres which means some of the lecturers or tutors will have experience of these - for instance if you want to study finance, head for New York, London or Hong Kong, or if you want to study politics, Washington DC is a centre to aim for.

Intercultural exchange

Professor Kimberly Hutchings, Program Director of the MSC in International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) says that having such an internationally diverse student body is part of the success of their course.

"The student body is thoroughly international and made up of the well-qualified students from across the world. The staffs in the IR Department are world-class scholars. The research culture at the LSE is particularly strong and there is a constant stream of visiting speakers for the school, both practioners and academics, speaking on issues related to international politics."

Canadian student, Daniel Lo, who is studying for his LLB law degree at the University of Birmingham in England, has found his studying abroad to be a great opportunity. His program was funded through family education savings from his parents.

"I am lucky and grateful for the fact that my parents had been saving for my undergraduate and postgraduate education ever since I was little. Studying in the UK has been a great experience for me so far. I am hoping to secure a position at a London law firm in the near future to show my parents that their continued support was well worth it."

In conclusion...

To sum up, Dee Roach says that the benefits of studying abroad include:

Independence: You obviously have to cope on your own when you are studying abroad. You have to be able to look after yourself and sort out your own affairs.

Culture: The best way of finding out about another culture is by immersing yourself in it, and you can only do that by living in a country. Once you are working, your holiday or experiences overseas might be limited to only two to four weeks per year so studying abroad is a great opportunity to remain in a country and learn all about it over a longer period of time.

Travel: Obviously you will not just be tied to the university or city you are studying in. You will also have the time and opportunity to travel within and around that country. Country-hopping during holidays and weekends is also possible, depending on where you are based. This will normally be with the added benefit of cheaper travel, as you will be armed with your student (discount) card.

Course work: Some countries are renowned for their expertise or prowess in particular areas or specific fields. Germany is synonymous with advances in engineering technology, the USA with top business and management programs such as Harvard, MIT and Stanford (to name but a few), Australia screams art and design and sport and Canada has its world renowned "co-op programs".  However, most countries will usually offer a whole host of courses and subjects, anything from alternative medicine degrees to circus skills and zoology can be found overseas.

Career: Anyone who is able to put on their CV that they studied abroad is at a great advantage in terms of impressing future employers. At a very basic level it will give you something to talk about in an interview. But much more importantly it will prove to your potential employer that you have the ability to stand on your own two feet, that you can fit in when placed in different environments, and that you are resourceful and have initiative.

Source: http://www.topuniversities.com/student-info/studying-abroad/studying-abroad-benefits

TRAVEL THE WORLD AND GET PAID FOR DOING SO – The SWISS Explore

Are you a modern-day Marco Polo with a talent for reporting and filming, while putting an airline’s products and services to the test at the same time? If you can answer with a resounding “yes”, you could be precisely the person SWISS is looking for to fill what must surely qualify as a “dream job”. Fire up your creative engines and grasp this incredible opportunity to become the SWISS Explorer.

Travel the world and get paid for doing so.

What might at first sound like something too good to be true is in fact both as real and fantastic as the Matterhorn itself.


SWISS is inviting an adventurous spirit with plenty of drive to travel the globe on its behalf for 6 months and share his/her memorable experiences with a worldwide audience.
You’ll visit vibrant cities and their surroundings, experience cultural and culinary highlights, try out some of the travel tips posted on our redesigned website, and add your own insights to one of the most frequently visited websites in Switzerland. Your assignment will be to document your adventures by writing blog reports, taking photographs, recording videos and sending Tweets via Twitter about the who, what, when, where and how of your roving encounters.

If you would like to be a SWISS Explorer, send a letter of application (including salary requirements), your CV, a travel report and a video portrait of yourself. The video is your opportunity to win points with the jury and at the public vote. You’ll also be able to share your application video with your friends on Facebook so they can vote for you. The three candidates with the most votes will receive a wildcard, and will go on to the next round. For that, they will be invited to an official job interview with SWISS in Kloten. Every voter will also have the opportunity to win one of 10 European flights for 2 people.

In addition to the 3 direct candidates, the jury will select 7 other candidates who will also be invited to a personal interview.

In the final stage of the application, the 3 finalists will be given a task to perform to demonstrate their skills and abilities. The SWISS Explorer will then be chosen by means of a final public vote, where once again there will be European flights to be won.

Source: http://www.cosmopolitalians.eu/swiss-explorer/

Americans Leaving US in Record Numbers

Ever dream of leaving it all behind and heading out of America? You’re not the only one.

A new study shows that more US citizens than ever before are living outside of the country.

According to statistics from the US State Department, around 6.4 million Americans are either working or studying overseas, which Gallup says is the largest number ever for such statistic.

The polling organization came across the number after conducting surveys in 135 outside nations and the information behind the numbers reveal that this isn’t exactly a longtime coming either — numbers have skyrocketed only in recent years. In the 24 months before polling began, the number of Americans between the ages of 25 and 34 living abroad managed to surge from barely 1 percent to over 5.1 percent. For those under the age span wishing to move overseas, the percentage has jumped in the same amount of time from 15 percent to 40.

While the United States of America was at one point (and largely still is) a magnet for foreigners in search of work, the statistics makes it clear that an opposite trend is quickly picking up steam.

"There's a feeling among more entrepreneurial Americans that if you really want to get anything done, you have to get out of country and away from the depressing atmosphere," Bob Adams of America Wave tells Reuters. “There's a sense of lost direction, so more people are looking for locations that offer more hope about the future."

Many of those leaving the US have job skills that would transfer quite well in the American market. Instead, however, they chose to bring those out of the States, attracted instead to opportunities elsewhere.

While America offers some employment opportunities unmatched outside of the United States, the country has also seen dire economic statistics since the dawn of the Obama administration, with jobless benefit claims soaring in recent months, and only last week did the Department of Labor reveal an unemployment statistic below 9 percent. On the contrary, the number of Americans that want full-time work and have given up on finding it or unable to locate it is closer to double that figure, while at the same time many of America’s largest employers have outsourced positions across the globe. Banking giant Goldman Sachs announced earlier this year that in the wake of a recession, they would finally be creating 1,000 new positions, yet making them available only to workers in Singapore. Other industries, significantly American, have been relocated as well; the ending of NASA’s space shuttle program this year left many intelligent US citizens with little choice but to continue in their field outside of the States.

“We’ve pretty much outsourced everything else,” aerospace technician Giovanni Pinzon tells RT. He was left scrambling for a job after years working in America’s space program.

America Wave’s Adams adds to Reuters that the statistics prove surprising to him, but noted that it doesn’t exactly make sense to think that it is a fluke.

“They're looking for work because of the sluggish economy, and they've lost confidence that the U.S. is going anywhere,” says Adams.

Source:  http://rt.com/usa/leaving-us-america-country-289/

Adapt your Profession so you can Work Anywhere

Digital nomads are successful because we use technology to maintain first world jobs remotely. We often live in less developed regions and enjoy a life that is cheaper than the location of our employer. This allows us to work less, if we choose, and spend more time doing what we like.

Having a source of income that can be earned from anywhere is the key to becoming a digital nomad. 

Your choice is to adapt your existing career or start a new profession that can be done remotely. Depending on where you start this can be easy or life-alteringly difficult. The good news is that once you’ve got work figured out, the rest will fall into place without much trouble.

There is no set of guidelines for you to follow. Certain types of jobs are naturally easier to perform remotely. 

If your job can be done using a laptop and an Internet connection, you’re off to a good start. 

Webmasters, software developers, designers, business owners, writers, bloggers and Internet entrepreneurs can find plenty of opportunities to sustain their lifestyle on the road. People with more hands-on professions such as mechanics, doctors, teachers or chefs may have to be more creative in order to pay the bills.

Freelancers and Consultants

Adapting an established freelance or consulting business is the easiest way to get started as a digital nomad. You will have to consider your clients and should notify them of changes to your availability and work hours. It is likely you will lose some clients, but this shouldn’t be a big deal if your goal is to sustain a location independent lifestyle. Chances are you’ll want to work less anyway.

Service professionals often have a difficult time adapting their business to a remote workplace. It’s less of a problem if you are experienced with an established client base. If you’re just starting out you may need spend considerable time building a successful business first. Finding clients on the road is tough, and offering a service remotely can be troubling if you don’t have established relationships with your customers.

Set proper expectations with your clients while you are traveling. Communication is essential, especially with service-related businesses. You’ll want to make sure you can stay in contact with your clients, especially when dealing with time zone differences. Do everything you can to make clients comfortable with your new lifestyle.

Telecommuters and Nine-to-Fivers

Telecommuting jobs are a natural fit for a digital nomad. If you already spend time working from home then you are half way there. You’ll need to figure out how you can continue being successful without ever showing up to the office.

Discussions with your colleagues and employer will help you figure this out. Show that you are organized and have thought through your plans. Demonstrate how you have gained trust by giving examples from your past telecommuting experiences. Be prepared to prove your case.

If you are a typical nine-to-five employee now, you may consider taking your job on the road. If others who do similar work can telecommute, there’s no reason you can’t. The trick is to convince your employer to allow it.

Proving that you can adapt your job to being done remotely will help convince your employer. It is important that you build trust with your employer over time. Start small by working a few days from home, take longer trial runs, and if all goes well make it permanent.

Business Owners and Entrepreneurs

If you own a business that can be run remotely, you shouldn’t have much difficulty adapting it to a location independent lifestyle. You may need to shrink your business to reduce your workload. You may also consider outsourcing or hiring a virtual assistant. Focus on automating as much as possible.

The effort of adapting your business will mostly be spent dealing with logistics. You’ll want to make your enterprise easy to manage on the road. This means having a plan for banking, legal concerns, accounting etc. Be aware of how becoming nomadic will affect your business. For example, insurance and taxes may change given your new lifestyle.

Increasingly, digital nomads are finding ways to make money through Internet-based entrepreneurial opportunities. Some are travelers-turned-digital nomad such as popular travel bloggers who monetize their website through advertising revenue.

There are many opportunities for tech-savvy individuals to make money online. But these are not get-rich-quick schemes, establishing a consistent source of income requires knowledge, a little luck and a lot of upfront effort. There are many resources available online and in print that can help you discover these opportunities. Those who have done it are becoming increasingly transparent by providing detailed information online that caters to their specific type of business.

Source: http://www.liferemotely.com/work-while-traveling/getting-started/27-adapt-your-profession

Ten top jobs you can do while travelling

BORED with bartending, over temping or tired of being a tour guide?

Luckily, there are some other ways to earn a bit of cash while you're travelling overseas.

An analysis of travel-related job listings by comparison site finder.com.au has unearthed some new job opportunities perfectly suited to those of us with eternal wanderlust, and they're not all the ones you'd think.

"About one million Australians live and work overseas according to the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade," finder.com.au spokeswoman Michelle Hutchison said.

"Taking a break to wander the world sounds pretty appealing but it can be expensive and many Australians will need to find work overseas to finance their globetrotting adventures.

"But what many expats may not realise is the variety of work available overseas ... Some of the jobs pay better than others and some demand specific qualifications or experience, but there are some fantastic jobs for people who are sick of the 9 to 5 grind and want to explore the world," Mrs Hutchison said.

According to their findings, the top 10 travel jobs are:

1. Digital nomad

Be it web development, graphic design or programming, if you've got a little technical or artistic flair and access to a computer and the internet, the world is now your workplace.

2. Importer/exporter

It sounds like the sort of vague job description proffered by the shifty or the essentially unemployed, but work as an importer/exporter is well suited to entrepreneurs and those who want to go into business for themselves. Travel to exotic destinations, buy up all their best merchandise and bring them home to sell for way more than you paid.

3. English language teacher

A perennial favourite, both among travellers with expertise in the English language and those who can count themselves as barely proficient. Opportunities to teach English as a second language exist in many parts of the world, with demand greatest in Asian countries where an emerging middle class is hungry to acquire knowledge of the world's lingua franca.

4. Oil and gas industry jobs

Finance your travels from the whiff of fossil fuels, rather than the smell of an oily rag. If you possess qualifications and experience in oil and gas, you could find yourself hopping from Norway to Texas and Nigeria to the sands of Saudi Arabia while getting paid handsomely for the privilege.

5. Crewing on yachts

If you have a set of sea legs and an eye for adventure, why not travel the world on-board a luxury yacht? Private yachts engage everyone from deckhands to mechanics, dive instructors, masseuses and even hairdressers. While the majority might be owned and financed by Russian oligarchs or Arab sheikhs, a yachting agency should be your first port of call if you're looking to suss out opportunities.

6. Travelling nurse

Cure the sick and heal the lame as you hop your way around the world. This option is particularly good for those who want to travel across the US, with several-month contracts available at hospitals with shortages of nurses.

7. Blogger

Yes, they're opinionated and everybody seems to have one (a blog), but if you can build a decent reputation as a blogger and attract sufficient revenue from advertising, then you can do it from virtually anywhere in the world. Work a little on your wordsmithery and you can also score free trips, hotel stays, attraction passes and other perks as a travel blogger.

8. Charity worker

It is a sad by-product of entrenched global poverty that opportunities for charity workers are so broad and so numerous. Workers are needed virtually everywhere for long and short-term positions. Check boards like Aidboard.com and reliefweb.int to find job listings.

9. Seasonal jobs in national parks or resorts

Become a park ranger and work surrounded by trees or man the lifts in a ski resort and work surrounded by a forest of people and skipoles. Many different types of jobs are available during peak season at holiday destinations. Job ads for snowboard instructors, promotional staff, cooks and cleaners can be found on job sites like www.coolworks.com.

10. Fruit picking

Popular with backpackers and students and anyone who enjoys working outside in the fresh air, there are plenty of interesting and exotic locations to pick and pack fruit and vegetables. Be it a Queensland plantation or an Israeli kibbutz, hours can be long and earnings can be lucrative. Some farmers pay by the hour, but for harvest work many pay for what you pick, so you need to be reasonably fit and hard working.

Students Flights national marketing manager Phil Hancox said working as an English teacher or crewing on a yacht are perennial favourites, while the amount of people doing some charity work is also growing.

Other popular jobs include working as a camp counsellor in the US and helping out at festivals and events.

"These days there are so many more options than just working in a pub," he said.

"The days where there was the desire to do just that have slipped away."

The number of people undertaking an overseas internship during university holidays is also growing, with the added benefit that travellers can get career experience while having a good time overseas

"It allows the travellers to see different ways of life overseas but also offers the opportunity to progress their career," he said.

He said while a number of popular working holiday markets, such as the UK, have suffered economic downturns in recent years, much of this has affected the full-time job market, creating new opportunities for travellers looking to do short-term contracts.

However, with working holiday visa regulations differing between countries, Mr Hancox recommended travellers plan as far ahead as possible for their overseas work experience.

Source:http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/travel/ten-top-jobs-you-can-do-while-travelling/story-fnjjuxwc-1226787852999