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5 Easy Ways to Make Your Career More Portable with WordPress

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Call it a portable career, a laptop lifestyle, or the digital nomad life, I’m glad I have the ability to work from anywhere with an internet connection. I have five adult children, and they’re scattered all over the US, from Seattle to LA to Boston and various points in between. About a week ago, one of my kids called, really needing some help dealing with a major situation. Because my work isn’t tied to any one place, I was able to fly up on short notice, and stay for about 10 days. While …

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How to be a Happiness Hero Overseas!

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Before 2009, I had never heard of a portable career, laptop lifestyle, digital nomad or location-independent lifestyle. If I ever considered work and not being tied to a place in the same thought, it was to dream about someday writing a book. After all, that's something you can do no matter where you live. Then in 2009, I lost my "safe" job. After applying for about 200 positions and garnering one whole interview, and an appalling three-month stint in a call center, I decided to …

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8 Tools for Organizing Your Portable Career

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If your notion of the perfect workplace is lounging with your laptop on a sandy beach, or listening to the splashing of a nearby stream from a porch in the mountains, you need to plan and set up your systems differently than if you’re always working from within the same four walls. In order to work from anywhere, it's important to find ways to keep your files, notes, schedules, and everything else in a form you can access from wherever you happen to be. If you have a permanent office …

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Why Copywriting is One of the Best Portable Careers

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"My question is how much schooling or classes did you invest in or is this a path you self taught?" A reader sent in that question after receiving a recent email about portable careers. She was asking about my training as a writer. Writing is one of the most portable of careers, and as a writer you truly have a location independent business. JK Rowling wrote the first Harry Potter book by hand on cafe napkins while her daughter slept. Most of us today use computers and need an internet …

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Create a Passive, Portable Income with a Money-Making Website

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Not all expats are retirees, nor do we all have great jobs with multinational companies. Many of us are self-employed, choosing to create portable careers we can carry with us, turtle-like, wherever we go. There is one type of income all of us can develop -- retirees as well as employees and self-employed expats. I'm talking about a money making website. You don't have to be a web guru or a programmer (or even a professional writer) to do this. All you need is a passion for a particular …

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Portable Careers, Black Friday Sales and Personal Values

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A portable career is more than work, it's a lifestyle you create for yourself that earns you money and supports your values. I'd like to talk with you for a minute about the values part of that equation and a decision I've just made. After the financial meltdown in the US I returned to freelancing, and started to put together the pieces of a freelance business. Because I planned to become an expat, I needed something I could take with me anywhere in the world. This website is one component …

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