Life can turn upside down in a heartbeat -- or in a lack of a heartbeat. Last year I told you about my father's passing after a long, difficult illness. At the time I wrote, "My father’s death has reminded me — viciously and viscerally — just how short life is. If you delay your plans, hopes and dreams too long, you may never experience their reality." Today I am trying to cope with the loss of my mother, who went suddenly. One day she seemed healthy, the next she was on medication for heart …
How to Work From Anywhere in the World
Guest post by Kathleen Peddicord You know all those millions of jobs lost in 2008, 2009, and 2010? Many of them didn't disappear. They're resurfacing today...online. You can find them if you know how to look...and you can fill them anywhere on earth you can get an Internet connection. I know publishing. Starting 26 years ago, I made a business of the old-fashioned kind of publishing, with envelopes and stamps. Today my business is virtual. Today, publishing companies (like mine) may …
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Pacing Your Portable Expat Career
You expect that you'll need time to readjust and develop new routines when you make a big move. Did you know the same thing happens when you make tiny changes as well? Recently I moved my home office from one room in my house to another. Since then, my productivity has dropped -- a lot. It never occurred to me that something as simple as moving my workspace within my house could throw me off to this extent. What's Your Plan? If you're developing a portable career now, as a future expat, you …
36 Best Cities for Quality of Life or Business
As future expats trying to decide where to live, we have to balance all sorts of important issues: quality of life, health care, affordability, weather and climate seem to top everyone's lists. The Economist recently ranked cities worldwide for Quality of Life. Vancouver, BC, Canada Melbourne, Australia Vienna, Austria Toronto, Canada Calgary, Alberta, Canada Helsinki, Finland Sydney, Australia Perth, Australia Adelaide, Australia Auckland, New Zealand Here's their …
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Finally! A Real Roadmap for Moving Overseas
I've found it! Earlier this year, I wrote about my disappointment in a product that promised to be a roadmap for expats. Instead, it was a bunch of fluff -- mostly recycled fluff, at that. I haven't given up the search, though, because we future expats need something that will take us, step by step, from our home countries to our lives abroad. Now the solution is available -- and right now, it's being offered at half price. Kathleen Peddicord has used her three decades of writing about the …
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Find Solutions for Expat Issues, Win Prizes
A new book for expat women has just been released, and if you buy it now -- during May, 2011 -- you can win some fabulous prizes! Chances are, if you're reading this article, you're not a "traditional" expat, meaning someone who moves abroad because their employer (or spouse's employer) sends them on assignment overseas. More likely, like me, you're living or planning to move abroad on your own. Expat Women: Confessions -- 50 Answers to Your Real-Life Questions about Living Abroad addresses 50 …
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