DIGITAL NOMADS: A Job Description (By SimoTheFinlandized - Written In 2021 CE)

================================ DIGITAL NOMADS: A Job Description (By SimoTheFinlandized - Written In 2021 CE) ================================ A digital nomad is someone who takes their work with them while travelling, typically working from a laptop in a café or hotel room in some interesting spot. Much of the work involved is creative, such as writing articles or computer programs, or designing various things; see travel writing for one obvious possibility. There are other possibilities. Some people run Internet businesses as nomads, and others do things like administering web sites remotely. Some people living abroad run a YouTube channel and/or a web site about the region they are in, and make money from advertising there. If you are an expert in some field, remote consulting may be possible; for example a skilled quantity surveyor can have clients email him building plans, and send back a list of required materials plus an invoice for the service. Editors, penetration testers and others may be able to do something similar. There are a number of resources for digital nomads: ================================ Online forums include Nomad list, Digital Nomad Forum and a Reddit board Remote OK and Remotely Awesome Jobs are recruitment sites for digital nomads. They work as aggregators that collect jobs from many recruitment sites, then select only the ones that can be done remotely so you could do them from anywhere with good Internet service. The travel guide site Atlas and Boots also has a remote jobs section. WeWork offer shared office space — anything from a desk (with or without computer) to an office for a small company — in 44 cities in 16 countries. Outsite are smaller, only eight locations and all in the Americas so far, but they provide living space as well. Numbers given are as of June 2017, both these companies are expanding to new locations, and there are many other players. A Forbes article describes co-working office-as-a-service locations as a business trend. It estimates that by the end of 2017 14,000 co-working spaces will be available worldwide and 1.2 million people will have worked in one. By no means all of these will be nomads; many companies now put employees in these places rather than running their own facilities, but the services are also available for nomads. Groups such as Hacker Paradise, Remote Year, and co-Work the World organize trips for groups of digital nomads. Nomad City have an annual conference on Gran Canaria which brings a few hundred nomads together. There is a 25-meter (82-foot) sailing catamaran called Coboat, a sort of cruise ship for digital nomads. She set out from Southeast Asia in late 2015; plans call for her to circumnavigate the world, travelling east-to-west and passing through both the Suez and Panama canals. As of mid-2018 she is in the Mediterranean Sea and will stay the rest of the year. Other cruise ships might also be usable by nomads, though not all have good enough Internet service. The site Hackaday has a series of articles on Life on Contract; much of those would apply for nomads.. Digital Nomad Academy and Digital Nomad Community are sites with a fee that offer training courses, mainly for people who want to become nomadic entrepreneurs. ================================ A few people working for large companies have gone from works-on-site to works-at-home and on to works-on-the-road; going through this progression appears to be the only way to get a full-benefits employee position with a major firm as a nomad. These companies may also have work for contractors or consultants who are not employees, and some also have desirable but non-nomadic posts abroad for employees. ================================