30 Ways to Get Paid to Travel the World
Dreaming develops a certain sense of ambition within but unless you invest in your passion, your dreams are just another fool’s paradise.
If your dream has always been able to travel around the world then don’t just sit and wait for opportunities to knock at your door! Step up and seek help from these 30 ways to get paid to travel the world:
- Blogging: Today’s world is ruled by digital content! You can work as a blogger from anywhere around the world at Fiverr or Upwork and make money per project.
- Travel writing: A niche in the blogging sector, travel writing is an exclusive tale-telling kind of writing where you can write about your experiences in different cities and countries, review their restaurants and recommend the destinations to visit to your readers. You can actually make a lot of money!
- Social media management: All you have to do is to get in touch with different brands and manage their social media accounts, promoting new offers, giving in details, talking about newly-arrived products and receiving customer feedback.
- Graphic designing: Use your creative skills to design websites from anywhere in the world!
- Web development: Establish a freelancer profile and develop websites for clients anywhere in the world to get paid!
- Affiliate marketing: If you have an access to a large audience on your personal social media platform, you can use it for affiliate marketing. Review products and get sponsored to travel the world!
- Online translating: Know more than two languages? Then find out online translation jobs and make money while traveling.
- Online teaching: Teach subjects of your expertise online.
- Teaching English: If you’re traveling, you can get hired as an English teacher at a local school and get paid.
- Baby sitting: Also known as Au Pair, this job is perfect for quick money to make while traveling by simply babysitting for families.
- Pet sitting: This is quite similar to babysitting but you get paid to take care of pets for different families.
- Playing music: If you have a talent, set up your own little concert like Mr. Bean and play music to get paid!
- Selling art and crafts: Handmade arts and crafts never go out of demand! Use your skill to sell souvenirs to make money while traveling.
- Selling street food: Cook up delicious cultural cuisines and sell them as a street vendor!
- Farm working: You can always help out at a farm for a meager but quick income.
- Bartending: Bartending at night clubs actually pays pretty well.
- Tour guiding: If you’re well-versed with places, register yourself as a professional tour guide to make money and travel.
- Fitness instruction: International fitness instructors can work for individual clients or conduct collective classes for Yoga or Aerobics and make money!
- Sports instruction: Similarly, you can actually make hefty amounts of money by working as a professional sports instructor.
- Massage therapy: Masseuses are in-demand globally! Although you will need a certification before you register yourself, you can actually get hired for massage therapy jobs on tour.
- Day trading: Investments in crypto-currencies and stocks may be a little unpredictable but if the odds are in your favor, you’ll be making the big bills in no time!
- Working in foreign services: Government officers who work in the foreign services are at leverage since they get to travel to different places.
- Photographing: You can register yourself as a freelance travel photographer or sign contracts with micro-stock sites as a travel photographer to make money while traveling.
- Documenting: Vlogging your experiences on YouTube can also be a good source of income on tour.
- Establishing AirBnB: Rent out your own home and use the money to travel around the world!
- Travel nursing: Get a professional, travel nursing diploma to become a certified travel
- Professional consultancy: If you work at a professional consultancy, you can get projects to consult with international students and fly off to different countries.
- Corporate exchange programs: Many international organizations located abroad offer you an invite after recruitment. So apply, get hired and begin your travel!
- HelpX: HelpX is an international volunteering program and although the money is less, you do get free food and accommodation.
- Voluntary Services Overseas (VSO): Work as a VSO volunteer in the fields of communications, charity fundraisers, social development, natural resources, animal shelter, education, health, business and more. Your travel expense, living expense and insurance expense will be financed by VSO International.
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