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DIGITAL NOMADS: By SimoTheFinlandized
c. 2022 CE (SOURCE: Wikivoyage - Working
Abroad)
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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 online
or creating computer-programming
projects, or designing various things;
see "travel writing" for one obvious
possibility.
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There are other possibilities. Some
people run Internet businesses as
nomads, and others do things like
administering websites remotely.
Some people living abroad run a
YouTube channel and/or a website
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.
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There are a number of resources
for digital nomads:
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Online forums include Nomadlist,
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.
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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.
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