Should I start my own business? Should I look for a job telecommuting? Should I freelance? Should I look for a job wherever I want to travel to?
There are an incredible number of ways to combine work and travel — but that makes choosing the right option that much harder. Not all of us do well telecommuting. Not all of us are interested in being entrepreneurs. It’s important to for each of us find our own fit when it comes to work.
On the surface, travel writing means working for someone else. Whether you’re sending off an article to a magazine editor or contributing an essay to an anthology, you’re writing primarily for someone else. It’s not impossible to take a more entrepreneurial approach to your travel writing, however.
When you’ve got wanderlust in your soul and a pen in your hand, it makes sense to use one to fund the other. If you want to have adventures criss-crossing the globe, it’s ideal if you can use your travels to finance all those plane tickets. Travel writing can be a good option: if you can get across why you wanted to see Nepal, Argentina or anywhere else on your list of places to see, it can make for a solid living.
As I conducted interviews for Working Your Way Around the World, I noticed an impressive number of women used freelance careers to fund their travels. It makes a lot of sense:
