3 Avenues for Making Your Fortune While Seeing the World
October 1, 2018
We all want to become successful in the pursuits that we choose to engage ourselves in. If we’re musically inclined, we want to have at least some recognition for our talent. Likewise in our professional lives. Entrepreneurs want success in their entrepreneurial endeavours, to justify the effort they put in, as well as to make a living.
Of course, “success” has many different dimensions, and in the 21st Century as it stands so far, the vision of “success”, for an increasingly huge number of people, involves having the ability to travel the world whilst simultaneously earning a living.
Books such as Tim Ferriss’ “The 4-Hour Work Week” have arguably changed the expectations of a generation, and increasingly, the great dream is to live a life of adventure in the here and now, rather than to wait for retirement.
Of course, such a lifestyle needs a certain kind of job to support it. Here are a few ideas of avenues for making your fortune while seeing the world.
Become a stock trader
When many people think of stock trading, they will inevitably envision something like the scenes from the film “The Wolf of Wall-Street”. An old-school, morally shaky, office culture with no free time for much of anything else, much less seeing the world.
Increasingly, however, stock traders are joining the ranks of those who work on the go as digital nomads, as stock trading services proliferate on the web. If the exciting and dynamic world of Forex is your thing, for example, you can find a database on Fx-List that can serve as your entry point to this world, without you having to set up office on Wall Street whatsoever.
This kind of work lends itself to people who are numerically-minded, and who like a dynamic and fast-paced working environment.
Sell ideas
Whatever work you’ve done in your life, whatever qualifications you’ve earned, and whatever particular life experiences you’ve amassed, there’s a good chance that you’ve either become specialist enough in some field to sell ideas to others, or at least, have become knowledgeable enough that you can sell ideas after a bit of thoughtful and attentive research.
“Selling ideas” might mean setting yourself up as a digital coach, including the things that entails, such as V-logging. It might also mean writing books, becoming a consultant, or even just becoming a dedicated blogger.
Whether your dreams are authorial or involve public speaking, there’s a lot to explore in this field.
Try your hand at selling other people’s products
Selling your own products can be a bit of an issue for those who want to travel the world, at least in the early days of your business. Among other things, this is — of course — due to the fact that managing your own stock and operations tends to be difficult when you’re jet-setting.
Affiliate marketing is one avenue by which you can use your marketing skills to “sell” other people’s products and make commission, while needing nothing but a website.
Of course, you might also make a living as a freelance marketing expert and achieve the same result.