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One topic of debate is whether to tell employers or co-workers that you live in a van. Reactions can vary from curiosity to hostility to jealousy at your freedom. | One topic of debate is whether to tell employers or co-workers that you live in a van. Reactions can vary from curiosity to hostility to jealousy at your freedom. | ||
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+ | Many hotels and towns that are in or around National Parks in the Western states will need to hire staff for housekeeping, | ||
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+ | Ski Resorts are another frequent location that needs a lot of temporary jobs filled during the ski season which don't have a lot of preexisting requirements. | ||
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+ | ==== Parachute Packing ==== | ||
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+ | Very large skydiving dropzones are a great place to find seasonal gig work [[https:// | ||
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===== Digital nomad ===== | ===== Digital nomad ===== | ||
- | //Digital nomads// are folks who "work from home". With the advent of Covid, even more tech-type jobs have become remote and can theoretically | + | //Digital nomads// are folks who "work from home", |
- | Typical careers | + | - Get skills |
+ | - Get any job that's probably in person, push yourself to learn a ton, and stay for 12-24 months | ||
+ | - You are now in high demand because you have skills and experience, so now you can find a fully remote job. | ||
- | Since COVID hit, many telephone customer service position that were formerly done in call centers have gone fully remote. Companies like Apple, AT&T and Verizon are staffing their customer service departments with people working from home. These jobs require a quiet environment without much background noise, and a very good & stable internet connection. | + | Typical careers that have good remote potential are usually highly technical in fields like Software Development and many avenues of IT. |
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+ | If you are new to the IT field and your goal is to do remote work, it is HIGHLY beneficial to learn as much as you can about the large cloud infrastructure providers such as Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS). Learning more traditional IT skills isn't a //bad// thing and they are still useful, but if your goal is fully remote work than it makes sense to learn the technologies that enable that. Both Azure and AWS have official training programs ([[https:// | ||
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+ | Some career paths like photography, | ||
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+ | Many telephone customer service position that were formerly done in call centers have gone fully remote. Companies like Apple, AT&T and Verizon are staffing their customer service departments with people working from home. These jobs require a quiet environment without much background noise, and a very good & stable internet connection. | ||
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- | ===== Seasonal work ===== | ||
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- | Many highly seasonal industries require small armies of people doing jobs that have a low barrier to entry, especially in hospitality. Many hotels that are in or around National Parks in the Western states will hire staff for housekeeping, | ||
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- | Ski Resorts are another frequent location that needs a lot of temporary jobs filled which don't have a lot of preexisting requirements. | ||
- | Skydiving Dropzones are a great place to find seasonal gig work packing parachutes. It's a highly physical job but isn't hard to learn, and can pay very well (often in cash). You don't need to be a skydiver to pack parachutes, although usually spending a lot of time at a dropzone leads to a desire to start skydiving (and then losing all your money) | ||
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