Okay, so, despite what I say in my book, and my own personal leanings, you do not have to start a business to create a fabulous, meaningful life.  Perhaps you just want to travel, experience new places, new people and new ideas to see how you might grow and change from such an adventure.

I have no problem with that.

The links below offer jobs, remote jobs where you can choose a destination, buy your ticket and set yourself up in an exotic and exciting locale, all while maintaining the security of an income.

Below are more than nine online resources for finding remote friendly work.  As you explore the possibilities, keep your skill set in mind.  If your skills are not yet marketable, use these resources to set goals and milestones.  Soon you will have all you need to escape to the land of your curiosity.

Location Independent, Remote, Freelance and Professional Jobs

• We Work Remotely

  This site claims to be the largest community on the web to find and list remote jobs that aren’t restricted by commutes or a specific location.
  The opportunities listed on this site are primarily jobs: programming, customer support, sales and marketing, finance. Pay close attention to the requirements for experience and, if you lack experience in your chosen field, plan to get some.

• Working Nomads

  Another curation site featuring digital jobs for those “seeking to start their telecommuting career”.  On this site you can sign up for emails from various career categories: Administration, Health Care, Education, and so on.

• Remoteok.io

  Besides work opportunities this site provides Nomad List, a database of  more than 2,328 cities in the world analyzing over a million data points every second to help you choose where to go next.

• Stack Overflow

  For developers.  If the following question has no meaning to you, you should probably choose another site:  “How can I display the frames added to the array with the imshow function?”

• Power To Fly

  This site is focused on women and jobs in general. The emphasis is on careers, interviewing, resume writing and so on but I found one possibility for myself here.Even a brief surf may get you thinking about possibilities.

• Indeed

  Indeed is typical job search site. To look for remote work, use terms like “remote” and “work from home” along with your desired skill set in the advanced search.

• Hubstaff Talent

  Again, you will have to enter “remote” in your search terms. Entering the word remote and “Interactive Content Manager”(one of my skill sets), I discovered a job for a junior developer working for a company out of Las Vegas.  The job description states: “The position is a remote telecommute position where you would work from home or wherever you find convenient. You must be willing to work within the hours of 8AM-9PM Pacific Time.

  The last line of the job description tells me the pay rate of $5/hour is firm.  Enough to live frugally in a developing country but not enough to save up for a plane ticket home when the dream loses it glow.

• Flex Jobs

  This is not a free site. In return for your $14.95 a month they offer 50 job categories, “hand screen” job opportunities to ascertain if the job offered is flexible, high quality and professional.

• Outsourcely

  Like Upwork and apparently many others, this is a freelance site where you can sell your skills on a project by project basis.  I won’t list them all, instead I will offer you a link to this post 72 Best Freelance Jobs Websites to Get Remote Freelance Work (Fast).

And finally I offer a link to Hobo with a Laptop and this blog post How to Get High Paying Part Time Remote Jobs.

Personally, except for one job posting for a writer to cover small business for Entrepreneur Magazine, most of these jobs give me the heebie-jeebies. That’s always been the case with me; that is why I started my own businesses.  But starting a business is slow and risky and perhaps you are in a hurry to get gone.  If so, look at these jobs as a way to build skills while seeing the world.  Keep your business plan in mind and sell your time wisely.  Good luck.

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