What the heck is an "Anywhereist?" I hear you ask. . . An Anywhereist is someone who can live, work, and thrive anywhere. To do that, you need a portable income. I plan to focus more on portable careers than I've done in the past. I'll still be talking about the wonderful life you can create … [Read more...] about Do You Want to Become an Anywhereist?
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52 Links to Help You Build Your WordPress Website
Is a portable career part of your plan for an untethered expat life? If it includes a WordPress website or blog, here are 52 links to help you get started. I've tried to arrange them in roughly the order you'll need them. (And yes, some of them are affiliate links.) Domain Name Registration and … [Read more...] about 52 Links to Help You Build Your WordPress Website
Copywriting as a Portable Career for Expats
"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. (If you don't receive emails from Future Expats, here's a copy of what you missed.) She was asking about my … [Read more...] about Copywriting as a Portable Career for Expats
How to be a Happiness Hero Overseas!
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 … [Read more...] about How to be a Happiness Hero Overseas!
8 Tools for Organizing Your Portable Career
When you're pursuing a portable career as an expat, it's important 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 space, you can fill it with paper files. But if your workspace is less permanent, … [Read more...] about 8 Tools for Organizing Your Portable Career
Create a Passive, Portable Income with a Money-Making Website
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 … [Read more...] about Create a Passive, Portable Income with a Money-Making Website