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Your Portable Career — How Do You Keep it On Track when Life Gets In the Way

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I admit, I'm not very good at juggling. No, I'm talking talking about the balls-or-clubs-in-the-air kind of juggling. I'm talking about the elusive work-life balancing act. Right now, I'm having a hard time staying on top of my normal business tasks. After living here in Panama without a car for six months, we finally decided to buy one. The search for a decent, affordable used car is a lot more time consuming than I had anticipated. Instead of planning future articles for this site, …

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Don’t Wait 31 Days

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Early in my blogging career, I joined ProBlogger Darren Rowse and thousands of other bloggers and wannabes. "Give me 31 Days and I'll Give You a Better Blog," Darren promised. Actually, he didn't just promise a better blog, but a dramatically better one! For 31 days I read his information and instructions, did the assigned tasks, and lo and behold my blog improved. I started coming up with interesting topics to write about, and more of them. My headlines got more interesting. I learned how …

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Uh-Oh. Thanks, Facebook for Outing Me to my Mother-in-Law

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Last week I decided to post some items we're selling on Facebook Marketplace. Little did I know that the "sharing" choices are different for Marketplace ads than for regular status updates, and that difference caused an uproar in the family. My in-laws have steadfastly refused to discuss our plans to become expats. It's the unspoken elephant in the room. We've found this refusal enormously frustrating, and I know she's frustrated, too. Anyway. . . back to the story. . . We've been trying to …

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Support Yourself Overseas as a Travel Photographer: 6 Resources to Get You Started

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Photography meets our definition of a location-independent career. You can do it anywhere in the world, and in this digital age you can sell your photos from anywhere you find an internet connection. But what if -- like me -- you're not an experienced photographer? How do you graduate from taking point-and-click snapshots to shooting photos someone is willing to pay for? While we all recognize the stunning quality of photos from National Geographic, Conde Nast Traveler and other high-end …

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Profitable Blogging

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Let's face it, you don't make money just by blogging. But there are lots of profitable bloggers, and some of them are very, very profitable. Gazillionaire profitable. They do it by using the blog to sell something. As I wrote recently, There are basically three ways to make money from a blog: Sell your own product Sell your own service Sell someone else’s product or service If you want to live the untethered expat life through a blog, you'll most likely start, as I did, by selling …

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Earn a Living In Your New Country as an Artisan

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If you paint fine paintings, sculpt, write poetry or novels or compose music, you've probably already considered financing your new overseas life by selling your creative products. And the process probably isn't very different from doing it in your home country. As a side benefit,the move will probably stir your creative juices and give you more subject matter to draw on! But have you considered making a living in your new country using handicraft and artisanal skills that may be just hobbies …

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