Day 130 — Coolest Job

Working for yourself is not enough, take it to the next level.

In this day and age it is possible to work remotely anywhere and with the rise of Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) like Udacity, and Coursera it’s possible to study anywhere.

Imagine being in different countries while you study or work for yourself. You can create apps, or create videos while you travel, this gives an enormous opportunity to get inspiration from the local community. Seeing people who wanted to study but unable to, promoting tourism to that country’s economy, and most importantly sharing the fun with other people.

You can monetize your videos and applications through advertisments or micro transactions. Travelling also helps you promote your content to different groups of people from different regions.

I believe that if you have a service app that actually help these people, people who travel, be it looking for a place to stay (Hostelworld, Airbnb, etc.), looking for fellow travelers, wanting to busk in the streets, or looking for a job overseas to fund their next trip. Word of mouth will travel fast.

I had been working for more than 7 years now. My job is good, it pays well however at this age I feel the urge to travel around the world, to learn significant amount of new info (which you get in studying vs day to day job), to have that feeling of having an unsecured income with learn once again the importance of every penny, and to meet different kinds of people all over the world, possibly the one I would spend my most precious moments and grow old with.

It’s not the length of life but the depth of life — Ralph Waldo Emerson