If you are considering semi-retirement, we assume that you have enough financial resources available to provide at least a partial income which you can supplement with income from your semi-retirement work to fill the gap to get you up to a livable income. We also assume that, since we are talking about being mobile (i.e. traveling) at least part of the year, the work you will … [Read more...]
Becoming a Web Content Provider
Content providers are most commonly writers, but can also be a editors, graphic artists, musicians, photographers, or videographers who provide or edit content for hire. Full-time jobs for content developers are listed on major job sites like indeed.com and monster.com, as well as craigslist.org (which often has more casual and shorter term jobs as well), but for the purpose of … [Read more...]
Part-Year Work
If you don’t have the right skills or desire to do a mobile or remote job, one option is to work part of the year at home in order to finance travel during the rest of the year, or part of it. We know one person who used to be a fulltime accountant who now works only during the tax season, cranking out tax returns for four months in order to finance his lifestyle for the rest … [Read more...]
Working Remotely and Location-Independent Work
Being able to work from wherever and whenever you want is the ideal scenario for a mobile semi-retirement lifestyle. However, achieving this ideal is easier said than done. In this article, I’ll talk about remote work, telecommuting, and fully location-independent work and how you can pursue these types of work. Working Remotely & Telecommuting These terms are often used … [Read more...]
Working Locally In A Foreign Country
Working locally means working for an employer located in the country where you are living. In almost every case, you need a work permit or work visa to legally work in another country. The normal situation is that you have been offered a job or contract by a company in that country and you have used that job offer to obtain a work visa from the embassy or consulate of that … [Read more...]