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Are You Just Another Freelance Commodity?

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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 gigs to support your overseas lifestyle. I won't re-hash my arguments here, you can go back to the original post and read them for yourself if you're interested. Instead, I'd like to expand on them. A few days after I posted that piece, I was …

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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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