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Finance Your Life Overseas by Starting a Business

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In previous posts, we looked at financing your new life overseas by teaching English as a second language, or by writing. These are a couple of very popular ways to earn money in your new country. There are many other options as well, including starting a business. Shelter Offshore advises that you must be sure your business idea is unique, but “not so unique that it is totally unlikely to succeed.” They point out that self-employment is a tough road in any case, and if you haven’t been …

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Corporate Cubicles: I’m Just Saying No

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Those of you who have followed me for a while know that I don't often get super-personal. Once in a while, I do share my personal circumstances occasionally, when it’s relevant to our overall discussion. When I lost my job in March as part of the US financial meltdown, I let you know about it, because it was going to effect my ability to explore new places to live. I spent the next seven months, approximately, without a job, picking up some freelance writing here and there with unemployment …

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Finance Your Life Overseas by Teaching English

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One popular way to finance your new life abroad is to teach English as a second language. While formal teaching experience is not required, most programs require you to be a native speaker and have a Bachelor’s Degree. Training and certification as a TESOL (Teaching English as a second or other language) or TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) can be obtained through online courses, or classroom teaching in many US locations as well as locations throughout the world. The website …

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Write Your Way to a Life Overseas

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In our last installment, we talked about writing as a way to finance your life abroad, specifically travel writing. There are, of course, many other different kinds of writing, and almost any of them can be done remotely once you develop the skills and, more importantly, the contacts. There is a huge demand for quality web content in many forms, including blog posts, articles on nearly any subject, marketing materials, advertising, and …

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How Will You Finance Your Life Overseas?

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In our recent poll, we discovered that most -- at least 80% -- of our readers will have to generate some income when they move overseas. None of them plan to hold an overseas job with their current employer, but half intend to develop some kind of self-employment income. This will be the first in a series of ongoing articles that may give you some ideas about your overseas self employment. Since it's what I plan to do, and what I know best, let's start with writing. Writing is probably the most …

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Doing Business Abroad

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If your overseas move will include doing business, the World Bank has just published a list that might help you narrow your search. According to their annual Doing Business report, the countries most favorable to starting a small- to medium-sized business are: Singapore New Zealand United States Hong Kong Denmark United Kingdom Ireland Canada Australia Norway Obviously, ease of starting a business is not the only criterion for choosing where in the world to live, but if you have years of your …

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