Today we celebrate our hundredth article. So what would be more appropriate to publish something suitable to thematize the Top100 of something… We could write about the best 100 countries, 100 most affordable destinations or 100 goals for 2018, 2019 or whatever.
But to be honest: How helpful would it be to name you so many different destinations when you can’t reach one of these places or even the end of this article due to the length? Here we collected some ideas or suitable ways to reach all these goals via the art of slow Travel. We came to the solution and thought 50 would be a great choice. With this summary of top 50 ways to work and travel abroad you’ll get an interesting overview of waht you can expect out there.
Pack your seven things and go on an adventure!
01. Work and Travel
After the turn of the millennium, Work & Travel established itself as a hype for those travellers (mainly Europeans) who were interested to work and travel around Australia. It’s still really affordable and some people start a new life overthere. Bilateral relations flourished between Australia and Germany and other European countries and therefore young people from both continents got the change to gain work experience abroad. Also Canada and New Zealand are great Working Holiday destinations, even Chile or Argentina.
02. Au Pair
Definetly the most traditional way to work abroad. Males do au pair jobs as well, but there are mainly girls who are gaining some great language skills and self confidence abroad. The wealth of experience is certainly huge and immersing yourself in a culture could hardly be more great. Typical au pair stay destinations are England, France or the USA, even Australia or South America become quite popular. The environment will be a familiar one, and as a result strong relationships with host families will be build up over time.
03. Daytrading
From a financial point of view, daytrading can be the riskiest form, but also one of the most lucrative in making money on the road. A very fundamental knowledge is necessary and you should be constantly adjusted to changes and innovations. The corresponding knowledge takes time and will. With the right skills and the right attitude, you can definitely bring it very far in the business. If you’re really good at it, you can even benefit from it all the time and get more than a normal living.
04. Dive Instructor
Mexico, Thailand and Egypt are the most popular spots for diving enthusiasts.
Therefore many travelers in these countries gain the opportunity to find work as a diving instructor.
In Playa de Carmen they offered me certified Scuba Diving Curses for EUR 200-300.
This should of course include a lot of expertise in terms of diving technology, group dynamics, guiding experience, first aid and the protection of the native underwater fauna.
05. Uber Driver
Maybe you are not yet abroad and you are still looking for an additional way to increase your salary?
Thanks to the booming startup industry there is one of worldwide leading companies and any driver can participate. Taxi was yesterday, Uber is in nowadays the most usual form to deliver innercity transport service. And theoretically, anyone with an own vehicle could participate and be paid to drive people from A to B.
In Mexico, I used an Uber every night for nearly a year.
I always had nice conversations with the people who drove me home. Their statement was always that many people could leave their old jobs thanks to Uber. Hardly anyone works more in a classically bad paid job. Probably not the nicest job but still a good ON THE ROAD opportunity.
06. Timesharing as Friend
There is a page called Rent a Friend and on this page you can share your own time and get paid for it. Especially in times of too much digitization you want to have a direct unknown counterpart in front of you. To be paid for it is probably better.
07. Classical Job Match in a different environment
After becoming friends with some people from the Philippines, I got asked how it would be possible to find jobs in and around Europe. They got a visa permit for the Schengen Area and were really interested to land a English-speaking job soon. I’ve noticed that even the classic job boards with familiar customer service jobs are often a good idea for many who may not want to go too far from their usual work environment. Sometimes it would be just sufficient to change the environment or setting. Through the site I found some job offers in Malta, Portugal, Ireland, but even in Mexico. It’s a great source and I did once a job.
Multilingual Vacancies
08.Work and Wildlife Ranger
For those who are interested in Africa’s wilderness: How about living there as a ranger?
From reading tracks, survival skills to guiding expeditions through the wilderness: A ranger training requires a lot of you and is probably a bit expensive at first glance. But this is a life investment, because you are learning forever.
Safarifrank
Gameranger
09. Beach Inspector
Checking out the beaches regarding terrain, infrastructure or bathing quality. This may sound a bit strange at first, but there is an opportunity to work as Beach Inspector. If you are willing to travel and have a certain ability to write and express well in words, this would be an option for you.
Beach Inspector
10. Be a Travelmaster guide people on your created trip
For me personally, this job sounds perfect:
- Setting your own itinerary on budgeted cost.
- Finding interested people
- Leading groups around the world
- Being paid for it
This sounds like a business idea for which you need a very high advertising budget. Not anymore, Travelsation has a great solution for it. A few weeks ago, I came across this startup idea from Germany and I have unfortunately found this nowhere else.
Unfortunately, you would need German skills so far. But maybe you can find something similar in your country. Andi t would be great that you let me know
Travelsation
11. Teach English or any other language oversea
One of the classics next to Au Pair and/or Work & Travel.
A wonderful option for those who want to provide a specific problem solution: teaching a language to someone who is really driven to learn it. Just go oversea and teach English in Thailand, Vietnam and China!
In these Asian countries there is is mainly a demand for native English speakers, for outsiders (e.g., French, German, Spanish native speakers) it seem to be harder to land a jobs in this area of the world.
Alternatively, there are Online Teacher pages in the World Wide Web, which we will also mention later.
On the other hand, in seems to be easier to go and ask directly on the spot to land a English teaching job, also then when you’re not native speaker. You can also participate and teach your own language.
For example Spanish, French and German are highly demanded. German seems to be more required in Latin America as English.
12. Mountain Guide
Even tried it out and I highly recommend it. It is worthwhile in the mountainous regions of the world. I have earned $ 50 a day in Bolivia and can only recommend to ask the small organizers rather than the big companies.
Where you should ask:
Project Himalaya
Suedamerica Tours
G Adventures
13. Tour Director / Tour Guide
Tour Directors guide people through a country or region, while tour guides are often in one place only (mainly cities). For the job as tour director, you should be able to participate in a certain certification in any case.
I can recommend this:
International Guide Academy
14. Flight Hacker
If you have any idea how to find the best flight deals, then an office job at Holiday Pirates, Holiday Pirates or Guru de Viaje might be the best choice for you. Of course, you are one of many applicants and you should go through the classical application process. These companies belong to the best companies in the tourism industry and have very good conditions and benefits.
If a solid office job is not for you, but you are still interested in the matter, then check out these pages.
Flystein
Flightfox
15. Travel Writer
My second and greatest passion besides travel itself: Travel Writing. I really adore Lonely Planet and the whole philosophy of their writers. But how can you earn money yourself with travel writing?
Try it out here:
Travelista Club
Matador Network
Matador is interesting for those who speak French, Spanish and Portuguese as well. German content seems to be added soon.
16. Join Q&A sites
Search engines are also reaching limits. If you have a specific question that is so specific that the search results are not informative. What could we do? Humans are still more knowledgeable.
The remedy is provided by so-called Q & A sites. You can register and earn money with a subject where you are really good in. Earn with your own expertise in one or more areas.
JustAnswer
or Ether
are pages you should check out.
17. Bla Bla Driver
I use this company BlaBlaCar regularly. Not as a driver, but as a passenger. Yesterday, during my trip from Belgium to Germany, I met the friendliest driver ever and he was thrilled with the idea of this BlaBlaCar startup. What could be better than having a friendly conversation while driving, and the others are even paying the cost of the trip? With BlaBlaCar you make a virtue out of necessity.
18. Become Travel Content Writer
Nearly identical to the job of the Travel Writer. There are various Content Writer pages and you’ll write however short texts with up to 500 words for other Freelancers, Blogger or companies as well. There are some requirements like special keywords, but with good writing skills it’s easy money. The best advantage is to work independently of location. For example, TripsByTips
specializes in the tourism industry as a content provider and anyone with writing skills can sign up. The advantage here is quite clear that they are looking for copywriters with different national backgrounds.
19. Design your T-shirt and travel the world
Are you creative and do you like good, new fashion designs? Try this page. You can create your Tshirts and distribute them woldwide without any dilivery costs.
20. Ghost writer jobs
Ghostwriters are generally all those people who write texts for other websites. Similar to the Travel Content Writer, there are also copywriters in all other possible branches. Instead of tourism or travel you can also write about kitchen facilities, financial stauff or adult entertainment. It’s up to you!
Ghostwriters are always in demand, especially on the internet via sites like Textbroker
or Writezillas.
21. Freelancer
A job as a freelancer can involve a lot. If as an SEO expert, as a designer or as a translator: The best ideas to get an impression about freelancer jobs can be found on Freelancer.com
and Upwork.
22. Wildlife Volunteer
Take care of injured animals, clean up animal exhibits or go for a walk with wild cheetahs:
You can do all this with the opportunity to work as a wildlife volunteer. The most wildlife volunteer projects are not for free and you need to pay for it, but you’ll have a positive impact to support local communities as well. You only learn to protect what you have seen yourself. This project in Namibia is great: Harnas.
23. Translator Jobs
There are quite a few interesting translator jobs. And also a lot of platforms you can use to translate, but travel the world at the same time.
2Polyglot
24. Remote Year
Work and Travel was yesterday, it’s time to look for any different way to work & travel around. It isn’t fixed on one specific country anymore and with this great program you’ll have the opportunity to work around as the next generations will do so. Work remote with other guys and stay anywhere between Asia and South America, just off the beaten path. The programs have a duration from 4 months up to 1 year.
Remoteyear
25. Work on a Yacht
Do you love sea, seafood and hard work? Can you imagine to sail around the world and get paid for it? It’s a hard job and often some experiences are required. But often they are just looking for a Helping Hand and you can get a bed for free instead. There are several ports of call (Panama, Tenerife, Palma de Mallorca etc.) which are known as big places for yachts. It’s the best option to ask directly, otherwise you should check jobboards in nearby hostels or via Internet.
26. Selling Websites
You are Developer and or you like to develop pages, just look out for a marketplace for selling and vending sites you created. It seems to be more complex as I describe so far, but if you are really passionate about the subject then you will succeed and you can set the basic selling bid price. The greatest marketplace is Flippa.
27. Apply as Travel Grant
One of the Top 100 ways to work and travel is as Travel Grant. There are several institutions which are always looking for participants who do not get often any money, but possibilities to get around.
28. Virtual Assistant
One of the advancements of the new technology and office environment ist he fact that companies are saving a lot of money when they reduce employee costs. There are statistics saying that virtual assistants are up to 12 % happier then in a classical 9-to-5 work environment where they even get no coffee for free. In their own favourite environment they can work from anywhere instead. There isn’t nearly anything that virtual assistants can’t do remotely in our days. There are better paid jobs, but it is more than enough to live really affordable in South America, Eastern Europe or Asia for example.
Here is an example for US-based jobs Virtualassistants
My favourite source is that one and it is also interesting for people who are from the States, but different countries as well Flexjobs.
29. Cloud Agent Jobs
Somehow similar with the „Virtual Assistant“, but just a different keyword to searching for results in the WWW.
The Cloud Agent is a virtual callcenter associate job. There are still many interesting companies out there and many of these offer you a great solution to work remotely.
The hourly wage depends a lot, but even a salary of just a Thousand Bucks could mean an affordable living in Mexico or Thailand for example. And there are no less then other 50 countries where you would live affordable when working remotely as Cloud Agent. LoudCloud
is a source, also check out Tripaneer if you wish to land a call center remote job with tourism and destination background.
30. Restaurant or Hotel Inspector
A keen eye for quality, a good knowledge of food, hospitality standards and above. Maybe it would be a great choice to give it a try and work as Hotel Inspector. Imagine to travel around, check out hotels.
Just check out Google for great sources. This opportunity would make it possible to work for a shorter period of time, but maybe it’s exactly that what you are looking for.
31. Stay social and guide around
Just check out our Showaround Review. Showaround is a platform where you can get in contact with locals. Those locals can offer you a tour for free and they can get paid for it. If you are knowledgeable about your city or region, you can find interested guys to show them around and earn a small extra income. Should you stay anywhere else (maybe as english native speaker in Central America) just do it from there und you can generate an additional income during your sparetime.
32. Travel Nurse
This is an option for nurses, where they can be hired from an specific period of time in a specific location. Once that period is over, they move to another location. This periods of time are regularly 13 weeks.
TravelNursing.org
33. Exchange semester / year while your career
There are agreements between universities around the world that allows you to make an exchange semester or year. In my case I studied in Tecnológico de Monterrey and went to a university in France paying the same cost as if I studied in Mexico.
This option is not just available for private universities but also for public universities. In Mexico a friend of mine studying in the Instituto Politecnico Nacional had an exchange semester in Argentina. So make sure you review the options available in your university.
34. Master Scholarships
Another example is studying a master study in another country. This is not a case that I am just talking about, a pair of friends of mine did it and got an scholarship from the Mexican government to cover their expenses while studying in another country. Specifically I saw that this option is more possible for people studying an engineer career.
35. AIESEC
AIESEC is a non governmental non profit organization recognized by the UNESCO focused in youth people and to incentive the leadership. This organization offers three different programs to travel the world: to participate in a volunteer program, professional practices in a solid company or in a startup . This organization is around the globe. Click here to visit their site.
36. Housesitting
Housesitting is an option when you want to know another place, and have a low budget, also, you can get someone housesitting your place. House Sitting World is a website that connects house sitters find house opportunities and helping home owners find house sitters.
37. Designer job when you travel the world
In Showaround I met a friend that worked as a graphic designer and the one thing he needed to work was a laptop. So he decided to travel around South America and at his free time work in the design projects he had. Make sure you bring your laptop, charger and have a great creativity. I consider that traveling the world is a great source of inspiration to get creative.
38. Handicraft commerce
I met this Mexican person that get married to a European guide that was really in love with Mexican handicraft. So she decided to get a comercial idea about his husband’s handicraft passion. She bring from time to time from Mexico different handicraft that she sell to European people near by from where she lives. The price is quite fair from the European people, Mexican handicraft people win and this art is more global every single day.
39. Etsy
Continuing with the ideas for creative people, there is this website called Etsy, where you can buy anything you get in mind from creative people around the world. This marketplace has nearly 30 million buyers around the world. The transaction fee is 3.5% for product buyer through Etsy.
40. Work Research in LinkedIn
I think this might sound complicated, but not really. A close friend of mine is French and she had worked in India for six months, Mexico for one year working in a clothing company, interesting thing is that she received also a job offer to work in Puebla for Volkswagen. Latter, she moved to China one year and nowadays she works in Vietnam for a business sustainability company. When I asked her how she did it, she told me the first thing she does is deciding a country. Once deciding the country she search in LinkedIn interesting companies where she would like to work. Finally, she applies in each company’s website.
41. Drop Shipping
Is a different kind of e-commerce, where you sell online, you give the customer service, invoicing and data information but have no stock. When a person buy a product the store buys this product to a third person and that person delivers the product to the final client.
Shopify
42. Worldpackers
This is a website where you can exchange your abilities for accommodation. The interesting thing is that you can find different abilities in 100 different countries. No matter if you are a social networks crack, are good teaching or even organizing parties or cleaning. We did an article about Worldpackers here in case you want to know more about it and visit their website here.
43. Pilot
This might be one of the obvious ones, but still being a good option. Studying to be a pilot is a three years career in Mexico. After that the responsibility is yours to get a job in an international airline. Here more information about a pilots academy in sunny Florida: Phoenix East Aviation.
44. Flight attendant
Travel the world being a flight attendant. Maybe not all the people feel like being a pilot. Maybe others like more facing clients. So this one is a better option. Here the link for the Inflight Institute.
Flight attendant career is a short time studies, at least in Mexico you can study it in two years and get the knowledge you should know before starting your flight attendant career and achieving a constantly travel dream life.
45. Work in a cruiseship
Working onboard a cruiseship would be a great option for sea lovers. This is a way to navigate around the sea, living in a fancy cruise and with a nice lifestyle. A good money payment also is an interesting fact about this job. Customer service, hospitality and boating professionals… this is an option for you.
Cruise Job Finder
46. Embassy Jobs
This is another option to start your development plan starting in your home country. There are embassies from each country in each country. So for example you can start working in the French Embassy in Mexico and latter work in another location. One important fact to mention here is that you should have knowledge from the language spoken in the embassy you are interested in.
47. Work in hostels
Hostels are found around the world. From Canada to Australia and from China to Mexico.The abilities you need can be as an event planner, receptionist, customer service, cooking or cleaning staff. The sizes are from startup hotels to big chains. The best option is to pick the one that suits better for you and start applying.
48. Work in an international company
I am talking about companies like Volkswagen, American Express, Uber. Companies located around the globe. The option here, is that you can start working in these companies in your home country and once in there, tell about your development plan, and your plans to work in another location. I have seen these cases from people living in Mexico and now in London, New York and Germany.
49. Travel blog
This can sound hard, but there are Canadians, Mexicans, American and Germans doing it. Create your travel blog and travel the world. This option is for people really pasionated for traveling and able to share that passion to others. To help find low budget options, sustainable options, luxury options or the target market you choose.
50. The solution is in your head
Even if you read about what to do to travel abroad, the one option you feel passion for is in your head. No matter how many times people try to convince you for another option, you know what you feel passion for and our advice is: go for it. No matter which option you decide, the important thing is to do it.
Happy reading!
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