One way to support yourself overseas is through a blog. Not sure what a blog is? Here's some basic information to get you started. What is a Blog? The word "blog" is short for "web log." An entire website can be a blog, or the blog can be just part …
Support Yourself Anywhere With a Website or Blog
In recent months, we’ve explored writing, photography, art, running a B&B, teaching English as a foreign language and other options for supporting yourself anywhere in the world. Some – running a B&B and teaching – require you to be in a …
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Are You Just Another Freelance Commodity?
A couple of weeks ago I posted a piece titled Dumb Suggestons for Finding Freelance Work Overseas. In it, I disagreed strongly with the author of an article who had suggested using Craigslist, Elance.com and Freelancer.com to come up with freelance …
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Live to Photograph? Or Photograph to Live?
Photography falls somewhere squarely in the middle between an art and a craft, but either way it could help you earn your living in your new international location. For most of us, "photography" means grabbing the point-and-shoot and clicking away …
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Special: One Heaping Portion of Regret
Two days ago, my almost-85-year-old father died. It happened peacefully at home before breakfast on Monday morning. It was not unexpected -- on the contrary, he'd been battling MRSA for several years, and undergoing thrice-weekly kidney dialysis for …
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