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JoeM · Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2007 2:59 pm Post subject: More career/job ideas?

Hi,

I'm hoping someone can suggest other International jobs/careers besides teaching in International schools. I like travelling. I know that I want a new career/job that allows me to travel a lot, or gives me an excuse to travel a lot. I want stable money, not a lot, but enough to be comfortable.

About me, I'm 36, I have a Bachelors Degree in Electronics Eng. (Hnrs 1A) and 10+ years experience in IT, System Admin., Web Design, Programming and other computer related stuff. Four years ago, I was bored with life and moved to Russia where I worked briefly as a Sys. Admin. and now I teach English which I enjoy but I don't make any money and the work comes and goes. I also trade forex with a program called Metatrader, and again the money comes and goes, mostly goes. My wife(Russian) and I live like typical Russians in a typical Russian apartment with two cats.

I love IT but I don't want another Sys. Admin. job. A programming job would be ok but it would be hard to land programming jobs in every foreign language country I want to live in. I don't want to start my own coding business, it would take years to build it up and a lot of hard work, I've done it before and I am just not up to it at the moment.

The one suitable career I have found is Teaching at International Schools. International teachers have the opportunity to travel to many different countries, the pay is stable, they have good holidays. They're looked after very well by the schools, in terms of housing, Visas etc. If they want to move on to another school/country they do so pretty easily and there is no stigma attached to it. I like teaching, the only problem with it is I like to be independent and do things by myself, particularly work things. I don't like to have to answer to others.(sounds terrible doesn't it)

I have also been thinking about Travel writing and/or photography but it seems the field is very competitive and work is hard to come by. Managing hotels in foreign countries would also be interesting but probably hard to break into initially. Particularly without any experience in the field.

Anyway sorry for the long message. Please if you have any suggestions at all I'm all ears. JoeM

Pauloz · Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2007 9:31 pm Post subject:

JoeM

Have to say this; the IT stuff can get stale if you leave it too long.

Obviously that's not what you want to do at the moment, but there may come a time when doing it is difficult. There's a decision to be made there.

Short answer to your questions is craigslist. This is the international link, pick a country.

http://www.craigslist.org/about/sites.html

Telecommuting is probably the best way to keep a second income/interest/ear to the ground about what's available, particularly since you want to be moving around.

I'm from Sydney, and typically, I'm working everywhere but Australia, online. I found a job, writing about Sydney, through craigslist New York link, for an Italian hotel chain.

If you've got a PayPal account, there's a lot of types of work, you can do just about anything, and it doesn't get dull, because you're doing your own work, your times, your preferences.

The whole gamut of possible jobs opens up for you, so I really think you'd be advised to take a look.

Don't know enough about the International Schools teaching jobs to comment, but a trustworthy income isn't all bad.

JoeM · Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 9:48 am Post subject:

Thanks PaulOz for the good advice. I have on question though, doing the kind of work that you do are you always hunting for work? The work I'm doing now comes and goes, and it's pretty unreliable. It's difficult to plan things because you never know what's coming. Through Craig'sList Is it possible to land something stable that'll allow you to move around as well.(Don't want much do I?)

Pauloz · Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 10:05 am Post subject:

Freelance is always a bit "come as you are".

I'm writing all over at the moment, even found a job where one of the incentives is, believe it or not, stock options.

Actually, you've set off a train of thought: Technical writing. There's a lot of that on craigslist, more or less continuously.

The jobs may not be all that stable, but the supply of them is. The pay's not too bad, either. I'm looking out for one I can do, as a matter of fact.

Suggest you go for multiple income streams, that way you don't have to worry if one of them folds.

Forget pay per click, or "revenue sharing", only about 1 in 100 of those is worth it.

One advantage you might have is being so close to Europe. There's a few around there, and if you speak Slavic, you're probably OK, because the translation thing is spreading with the EU.

good luck

sweet_life · Expert Joined: 20 Sep 2006 Posts: 184 Career Advice: +0/-1

Hi there, I'm going to tell you my opinion about freelancing. It's good, but not for a long time. It is a very good opportunity to create yourself a client database, clients which later on will pay you directly. Also, the relationships you can build can become long term and work can become continuous...so reliable. Not to mention the chances when you can actually get hired by companies with contract and all.

http://www.cvtips.com/free_lancing_international_employment.html

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