Have you ever wondered how you could earn a living that would allow you to live and work anywhere in the world? Many people already living that dream shared the details of how they make a living in the recent Location Independent and Digital Nomad Survey.
64 of their answers are below. The results might surprise you if you thought location independent people were all bloggers or online business owners.
The truth is that these people earn a living in many different ways. Sure, there are plenty of freelance writers, consultants and web developers, but there are also professional musicians, lobbyists and land developers on the list.
Check out these 64 real ways people earn a location independent living:
- Database consulting for MySQL
- Sales (other peoples’ products)
- Public affairs and public relations working in digital engagement
- Updating blogs and ghostwriting
- Through coaching and consulting, by helping expats and diplomats cope with homesickness and culture shock, staying focused on their goals and overcoming the emotional and motivational challenges of expat life
- As a music composer and sound designer along with running an audio production company
- Website design and audio engineering
- Through a business that produces ready-made newsletters, sold online to people cross North America
- Graphic design for a Fortune 500 company
- As a freelance writer, involving blogging, copywriting, ghost writing and article and e-book writing
- Affiliate marketing
- Software development, end user support, training, documentation, database management, project management, technical marketing & strategy and producing travel content
- As a self-employed webmaster, blogger and travel writer
- Communications strategy consulting and content development
- Running a yacht charter company
- Professional poker player
- Freelance script writer and script doctor
- Online community manager, community consultant and entrepreneur
- Translation and related language services
- Instructional designer and consultant for large businesses
- Reporting, copywriting, and marketing consultation
- Project Manager for an electronic medical records software company
- Geographical information analysis for research institutions
- Consulting services for organizational development
- Selling information products and coaching
- IT project management and regulatory compliance
- Web development
- Senior consultant for a large data services/hardware company
- Customer service manager for online software company
- Website design and management with 2 major contracts
- Sales (conducting phone sales with Skype to contacts in the US)
- Market research
- Writing for other people, recording conferences and audio programs and selling “stuff” on-line
- Web developer
- IT systems design and software implementation
- Creating websites to sell online niche products
- Freelance translation of technical documents
- Working as a full time employee at home for a major IT company
- Through three websites and some freelance design work
- Building blogs and websites for small companies and social media consulting
- International airline/aviation consultant and lobbyist
- Land development and consulting
- Affiliate marketing manager and digital marketing consulting
- Through recurring income from web hosting and support contracts
- Adjunct professor specializing in online learning (teaching and designing online courses)
- Consulting, training and coaching in the fields of new ways of working and information worker performance
- Professional musician
- Public relations for creative (advertising, marketing, PR, design) firms
- Working for a publisher (writing, illustration, photography)
- College instructor
- Health and wellness coaching
- Running a web application with a monthly subscription model
- Consulting in software development
- Selling an extension to a popular content management system
- Working for Matador Network and Where There Be Dragons
- Arts consulting
- Business advisor
- Manage operations of online business
- Senior IT consultant
- Marketing coach and copywriter
- Trading forex (foreign exchange)
- Owning an internet business
- Selling online eBooks
- Running a technology sales website
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