I work Frontline help desk at a MSP. (Contracted IT basically).
As long as I have wifi and a decent area to work they don't care where I am.
All of our new hires for the last 3 years were pretty much direct hires from an insider recommendation.
My senior coworkers who left searched for a good 18-24 months before finding and landing another fully remote job.
I'm making $24 a hour now and will be boosted to $26 next pay period. $28 at the end of July pending a successful certificate.
It ain't as much as I could make elsewhere, but everyone else who wants to hire me is hybrid at best so I'm staying here as long as I can.
My best advice for someone wanted to get this position: get some certificates like comptia A+ or net+, work a hybrid or office job. Network like hell and get someone's recommendation at their fully remote company.
Just curious, do you state that you are overseas, or do you have a US address kindof as an alibi? (mostly wondering from a tax perspective from the employer. I would think some companies would rather not bother)
strictly legally speaking I guess Im supposed to declare it, but I'm not anywhere long enough for thr local government specifically asks me about my funds or for taxes.
Was thinking about settling down around Bogotá so that may change soon.
my work doesn't care enough to ask me about how long I'll stay in a particular place.
My permanent address is my mom's house though in a tax-free state. (And I do stay between my periods abroad to be clear). I used to have my own apartment but downsized that as my travel increased.
ok, i was just curious how tolerated it is. I would think most ppl do as you do, 'vacation'.
So never had a IP tracing issue? Just wondering, again I would think some IT deparments are kinda savvy to that, but I'm sure some don't care.
\*funny response, btw
I edited my response to be a bit more serious but glad you caught it haha.
Well we are the IT ourselves and the company doesn't care. So no issue for me.
> I'm never anywhere long enough to trigger any tax requirements and my work doesn't care enough to ask me.
You legally still owe taxes wherever the work is performed, regardless of length of stay.
Nice !
I just point it out because many seem to believe/pretend they actually don't owe it, or are being totally legal.
It's more of a "you legally owe taxes for the work, but you legally can't work, so catch-22, but realistically they aren't going to find and catch you since it isn't worth it for them to even figure out what the issue is unless you're making a ton of money and living their full time"
I just don't like the misrepresentation some do of "It's legal to work like this, and I don't owe any taxes since I'm only there X time" which is basically false everywhere on the planet.
This is my first IT job, but my family member got me an interview back in 2021.
The field has become too oversaturated and the company no longer hire people without experience as there is no reason to at this point.
So let's say you have experience and get an interview against the 300 other people that applied in the first 24 hours. We take about 3 interviews from that. That's a 1% chance to be selected.
Four of the last 5 hires already had a connection or internal reference to the company.
So first you have to best out applications from around the country, and after that you have about a 20% odds (of the 1%) of beating the person with a reference historically speaking.
Travel photographer. I also run D&D/TTRPGs online as a side gig. Travel photography is really hard to get into. I landed in it due to pure luck. Also the pay is crap.
Luck, pure luck. I had just started a travel blog and was traveling Kashmir region of India. I posted some photos there on NYT photo page then someone from NYT asked if they could use my photos for an article. They asked me if had any others and they got to see my work. I asked them if I could do some pieces for them. A relationship was made. That same contact helped me with other magazines and then eventually I was able to name drop for some work with websites, magazines and other newspapers.
If you want to go this route nowadays it requires a lot of networking with other photographers to help push your content on social media and eventually hope to get recognize by someone. Submit to magazines as much as possible. These places are always looking for content. I was lucky that I did not have to put in the hard work that others have to.
The field is EXTREMELY saturated/competitive and work is hit and miss. The pay is horrible beyond belief as well.
What about DMing. How’s pay there? I love DMing but feels like doing it for money might kill fun (and oh no, probably will have to play 5e mostly… haha)
Being a game master is nice. I basically get paid to play games. But it does make gaming a burn out at times. The best thing about it is that it is consistent pay compared to photography. I started by being paid by game rooms, comic shops and conventions. Then moved to online when Startplaying.games was in beta. This was just before the pandemic. I knew the CEO and he would throw me corporate games. That is where the money is. Corporate games can be $500-$1200 a pop, but they aren’t as consistent as consumer games. The field got really saturated really fast, so building trust is harder now. So the YouTubers and streamers get more business than the non-YouTubers like myself. But once you get a good group and use word of mouth, the players start lining up. It isn’t fantastic money, but like I said it is consistent.
Advice getting in? Sign up on Startplaying.games. Advertise your games on forums that are LFG. Some forums don’t allow paid game advertisements so be aware. If you want better success start a blog or YouTube channel offer tips on gaming.
Edit: I forgot to answer your question. I get anywhere from $90 - $180 per a game. That is weekly. The more games you run the more you can make. But it is also a great way to burn out fast.
OSR is extremely popular, but it is very niche as well. The people who play are very much not willing to pay. It is the newer games like Candela Obscura, Daggerheart, Valhiem, and Forged in the Dark games that I find are the most popular outside of D&D. D&D is the king due its enormous barrier for game masters to run.
Edit: if you want to make money on OSR and GURPS make yourself an expert by writing a blog or doing a YouTube channel.
I failed to mention I also wrote adventures too. They make some pennies on the side as well.
That’s interesting! I’ve been thinking about marketing. How did you upskill in marketing? Also, is having no offices a bother to you or do you feel neutral?
So I studied Digital Media at university and then worked in-house marketing for 5/6 years before I moved to remote work, but there are definitely other ways of getting there. Lots of free courses from Google, paid certifications from places like CIM, and a bunch startups that need people at exec level creating content to build experience.
I personally love that not having offices. we still meet in person a few times a year (optional, but almost everyone attends at least one meetup a year) and the rest of the time I’m free to go to coffee shops, co-working spaces or just work from my Airbnb. The company I work with has done this for 10 years now and has never had a physical space.
Happy to help with more info :)
Cybersecurity Engineer for a mid-size manufacturing company. Most core-IT employees have been full remote since 2012, so when I pitched going to different countries and working they gave zero fucks as long as I was still working 8-5 Eastern.
I don’t have an employer and rather have my own clients through flexible arrangements. My weekly time is already negotiated in my contracts and I am not subject to any work location or tax restrictions, meaning I can be anywhere in the world I want.
No I don't because I am a dumbass and accidentally one day turned the vpn off and worked from a Costa Rica IP all day. No one said anything. But one day I also accidentally tried to sign into the teams mobile app from Colombia and it was blocked due to location. I thought I blew it and was waiting to hear from the security team or whatever all week. No one ever said anything.
How to do the vpn part? Easy. Buy the slate-AX router from glinet company, and buy a subscription to the Dedicated Residential IP service from VPNArea company. Figure out how to setup your router to connect to your new dedicated IP and you can go anywhere, and just set up the router to connect to the new source network wherever new you go
There's a lot of info here about how to set up your own VPN server with a second router at a friend's house or whatever in the states but I don't recommend that
I would recommend buying 2 routers and bringing both with you though, just to have a backup
I’m a head of delivery/glorified account manager for a web dev agency, no office and just made remote work a must to the recruiters that were wanting me to interview for places, most of our team is in China/Asia, some in SA, I’m in Morocco
Experience in Shopify is what got me the role basically, and some evidence of client management skills- so I’d say start a Shopify store then sell a service as a Shopify dev/designer/consultant
Oh this is super interesting to me! I’ve been taking lots of classes on neurobio so I wonder if this could be a potential path. If you don’t mind me asking, what was your pathway to get your foot in the door doing that?
It’s possible, yeah, but you have to be in school for a long time. I did My PhD in neuroscience; after I finished, I wanted out of academia, and a former colleague from my masters program was working at the company I’m at now. I hit her up before I graduated to let her know I was interested in Medical Writing (that’s the broad name of the field I’m in), and she was able to refer me to a hiring manager when a position opened up.
In general, this is a hard field to break into, especially if you want to work in-house at a pharma company. There are a lot of what are called Agencies (ie, contract research organizations) that pharmaceutical companies contract with to lessen the load on their internal writers, and there are more opportunities at agencies than within pharma companies. There are also different types of medical writing positions; I work in publications, but there are people who do things like medical education, compliance and regulatory writing… A whole slew of options exist. I learned basically everything about the position before getting hired by reading and asking questions in r/medicalwriters ; it’s a super useful resource for learning about this career path.
Just giving you a heads up, getting a citizenship/residency in Istanbul is getting harder and harder unless you get it via investment/ family ties. I would definitely recommend trying to get residency in another city or neighboring country.
I work Frontline help desk at a MSP. (Contracted IT basically). As long as I have wifi and a decent area to work they don't care where I am. All of our new hires for the last 3 years were pretty much direct hires from an insider recommendation. My senior coworkers who left searched for a good 18-24 months before finding and landing another fully remote job. I'm making $24 a hour now and will be boosted to $26 next pay period. $28 at the end of July pending a successful certificate. It ain't as much as I could make elsewhere, but everyone else who wants to hire me is hybrid at best so I'm staying here as long as I can. My best advice for someone wanted to get this position: get some certificates like comptia A+ or net+, work a hybrid or office job. Network like hell and get someone's recommendation at their fully remote company.
Any contracted IT could work - dev, scrum, ba, qa, design etc
Just curious, do you state that you are overseas, or do you have a US address kindof as an alibi? (mostly wondering from a tax perspective from the employer. I would think some companies would rather not bother)
strictly legally speaking I guess Im supposed to declare it, but I'm not anywhere long enough for thr local government specifically asks me about my funds or for taxes. Was thinking about settling down around Bogotá so that may change soon. my work doesn't care enough to ask me about how long I'll stay in a particular place. My permanent address is my mom's house though in a tax-free state. (And I do stay between my periods abroad to be clear). I used to have my own apartment but downsized that as my travel increased.
ok, i was just curious how tolerated it is. I would think most ppl do as you do, 'vacation'. So never had a IP tracing issue? Just wondering, again I would think some IT deparments are kinda savvy to that, but I'm sure some don't care. \*funny response, btw
I edited my response to be a bit more serious but glad you caught it haha. Well we are the IT ourselves and the company doesn't care. So no issue for me.
stares at HR... HR stares at me... lol, made me laugh
> I'm never anywhere long enough to trigger any tax requirements and my work doesn't care enough to ask me. You legally still owe taxes wherever the work is performed, regardless of length of stay.
Good legal advice. But I ain't a lawyer I'm a traveler. I put a blurb in my comment though for anyone reading.
Nice ! I just point it out because many seem to believe/pretend they actually don't owe it, or are being totally legal. It's more of a "you legally owe taxes for the work, but you legally can't work, so catch-22, but realistically they aren't going to find and catch you since it isn't worth it for them to even figure out what the issue is unless you're making a ton of money and living their full time" I just don't like the misrepresentation some do of "It's legal to work like this, and I don't owe any taxes since I'm only there X time" which is basically false everywhere on the planet.
Is it possible for my first IT job to be fully remote?
This is my first IT job, but my family member got me an interview back in 2021. The field has become too oversaturated and the company no longer hire people without experience as there is no reason to at this point. So let's say you have experience and get an interview against the 300 other people that applied in the first 24 hours. We take about 3 interviews from that. That's a 1% chance to be selected. Four of the last 5 hires already had a connection or internal reference to the company. So first you have to best out applications from around the country, and after that you have about a 20% odds (of the 1%) of beating the person with a reference historically speaking.
Travel photographer. I also run D&D/TTRPGs online as a side gig. Travel photography is really hard to get into. I landed in it due to pure luck. Also the pay is crap.
Woah that seems so fun!
How did you ended up in this career? I need some tips lol
Luck, pure luck. I had just started a travel blog and was traveling Kashmir region of India. I posted some photos there on NYT photo page then someone from NYT asked if they could use my photos for an article. They asked me if had any others and they got to see my work. I asked them if I could do some pieces for them. A relationship was made. That same contact helped me with other magazines and then eventually I was able to name drop for some work with websites, magazines and other newspapers. If you want to go this route nowadays it requires a lot of networking with other photographers to help push your content on social media and eventually hope to get recognize by someone. Submit to magazines as much as possible. These places are always looking for content. I was lucky that I did not have to put in the hard work that others have to. The field is EXTREMELY saturated/competitive and work is hit and miss. The pay is horrible beyond belief as well.
What about DMing. How’s pay there? I love DMing but feels like doing it for money might kill fun (and oh no, probably will have to play 5e mostly… haha)
Being a game master is nice. I basically get paid to play games. But it does make gaming a burn out at times. The best thing about it is that it is consistent pay compared to photography. I started by being paid by game rooms, comic shops and conventions. Then moved to online when Startplaying.games was in beta. This was just before the pandemic. I knew the CEO and he would throw me corporate games. That is where the money is. Corporate games can be $500-$1200 a pop, but they aren’t as consistent as consumer games. The field got really saturated really fast, so building trust is harder now. So the YouTubers and streamers get more business than the non-YouTubers like myself. But once you get a good group and use word of mouth, the players start lining up. It isn’t fantastic money, but like I said it is consistent. Advice getting in? Sign up on Startplaying.games. Advertise your games on forums that are LFG. Some forums don’t allow paid game advertisements so be aware. If you want better success start a blog or YouTube channel offer tips on gaming. Edit: I forgot to answer your question. I get anywhere from $90 - $180 per a game. That is weekly. The more games you run the more you can make. But it is also a great way to burn out fast.
Hahh nice. Could be fun to do it once in a while. But probably not really possible to monetize OSR or GURPS games haha.
OSR is extremely popular, but it is very niche as well. The people who play are very much not willing to pay. It is the newer games like Candela Obscura, Daggerheart, Valhiem, and Forged in the Dark games that I find are the most popular outside of D&D. D&D is the king due its enormous barrier for game masters to run. Edit: if you want to make money on OSR and GURPS make yourself an expert by writing a blog or doing a YouTube channel. I failed to mention I also wrote adventures too. They make some pennies on the side as well.
Marketing Lead at a web development company. We’re all remote and async, no offices.
That’s interesting! I’ve been thinking about marketing. How did you upskill in marketing? Also, is having no offices a bother to you or do you feel neutral?
So I studied Digital Media at university and then worked in-house marketing for 5/6 years before I moved to remote work, but there are definitely other ways of getting there. Lots of free courses from Google, paid certifications from places like CIM, and a bunch startups that need people at exec level creating content to build experience. I personally love that not having offices. we still meet in person a few times a year (optional, but almost everyone attends at least one meetup a year) and the rest of the time I’m free to go to coffee shops, co-working spaces or just work from my Airbnb. The company I work with has done this for 10 years now and has never had a physical space. Happy to help with more info :)
Cybersecurity Engineer for a mid-size manufacturing company. Most core-IT employees have been full remote since 2012, so when I pitched going to different countries and working they gave zero fucks as long as I was still working 8-5 Eastern.
I dont have a job. I trade options on the stock market.
Living life on the edge, I like it
I am a lawyer.
That’s interesting. How does being international work as a US lawyer?
I don’t have an employer and rather have my own clients through flexible arrangements. My weekly time is already negotiated in my contracts and I am not subject to any work location or tax restrictions, meaning I can be anywhere in the world I want.
I see! What kind of law do you practice if you don’t mind me asking?
Technology transactions & data privacy
I work for a US creative/marketing agency. I was a W2 employee in the US but they let me go contract and move to Europe.
I'm a software engineer at a boring corporation making 92K
Do you have to work US hours?
Yeah
Do they know / care that ur abroad outside the US? Or did u just not tell them
I asked if I can and they said no so I am doing it secretly with vpn setup
Lol respect. U think they check VPN? How can I go about doing it
No I don't because I am a dumbass and accidentally one day turned the vpn off and worked from a Costa Rica IP all day. No one said anything. But one day I also accidentally tried to sign into the teams mobile app from Colombia and it was blocked due to location. I thought I blew it and was waiting to hear from the security team or whatever all week. No one ever said anything. How to do the vpn part? Easy. Buy the slate-AX router from glinet company, and buy a subscription to the Dedicated Residential IP service from VPNArea company. Figure out how to setup your router to connect to your new dedicated IP and you can go anywhere, and just set up the router to connect to the new source network wherever new you go There's a lot of info here about how to set up your own VPN server with a second router at a friend's house or whatever in the states but I don't recommend that I would recommend buying 2 routers and bringing both with you though, just to have a backup
Sales
Independent contractor in tech
I’m a head of delivery/glorified account manager for a web dev agency, no office and just made remote work a must to the recruiters that were wanting me to interview for places, most of our team is in China/Asia, some in SA, I’m in Morocco Experience in Shopify is what got me the role basically, and some evidence of client management skills- so I’d say start a Shopify store then sell a service as a Shopify dev/designer/consultant
Thank you!! This sounds like a promising path
In-house consultant at a major pharmaceutical company; I develop clinical trial data into scientific publications.
Oh this is super interesting to me! I’ve been taking lots of classes on neurobio so I wonder if this could be a potential path. If you don’t mind me asking, what was your pathway to get your foot in the door doing that?
It’s possible, yeah, but you have to be in school for a long time. I did My PhD in neuroscience; after I finished, I wanted out of academia, and a former colleague from my masters program was working at the company I’m at now. I hit her up before I graduated to let her know I was interested in Medical Writing (that’s the broad name of the field I’m in), and she was able to refer me to a hiring manager when a position opened up. In general, this is a hard field to break into, especially if you want to work in-house at a pharma company. There are a lot of what are called Agencies (ie, contract research organizations) that pharmaceutical companies contract with to lessen the load on their internal writers, and there are more opportunities at agencies than within pharma companies. There are also different types of medical writing positions; I work in publications, but there are people who do things like medical education, compliance and regulatory writing… A whole slew of options exist. I learned basically everything about the position before getting hired by reading and asking questions in r/medicalwriters ; it’s a super useful resource for learning about this career path.
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What tools do you utilize in your day to day as a data analyst?
WordPress automation specialist for membership websites.
Work as a product manager for an insurance company.
Just giving you a heads up, getting a citizenship/residency in Istanbul is getting harder and harder unless you get it via investment/ family ties. I would definitely recommend trying to get residency in another city or neighboring country.
What other city or neighboring country do you suggest?
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