Tuesday, January 24, 2006

Working: Have Technology Will Travel

Do you have the skills to be self-employed, write, or provide consulting services?

If so, you can work pretty well anywhere in the world if you can link effectively to technology.

Most countries do not allow foreigners to come into take country and take “jobs” away from its citizens, even though you may be very qualified to fill a job in another country.

The exceptions are professional degrees – often at a Master’s level, where no one within the country is available to do a job.

However, if you want to travel, live in other countries for a while, or live in several countries, consider finding paid contracts to do some work on-line.

Or, why not work for yourself for part of your year in a country that has a warm climate and cheaper living expenses. You might put in a month in January in the sun and work hard, but play in the sun instead of the rain or the snow.

Of course, the ever-enduring image of lying on a beachfront working on your computer won’t cut it if there is not wireless access to the web and that is what you need.

But more and larger cities have some sort of wireless access. So though your contract or employer may be elsewhere, it is increasingly easy to work worldwide. What a way to go!

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