I think this is Jow Forums related:
How do I set up a 100% remote type of gig, or even better, my own business like a digital consultancy?
I have a few years of working in an office in a soft-tech role (think PM, scrum master type of shit, little to no dev work) and my ultimate goal is to go full nomad.
How do you effectively establish a home "base" while traveling and working remotely? Transitioning into that first remote job?
Are co-working spaces like WeWork worth it? Should I accept crypto?
a) earn a lot of money
b) go on a vacation
c) pretend to work
I'm sorry you had to learn it this way OP...
>mfw i finally have the dream remote job....but am 33 year old boomer with wife, mortgage, and kids.
god damn, I wish I got to do the digital nomad thing before I got locked down with all this shit.
I'm a web dev. I could pack my shit and go nomad tomorrow if I wanted
how it happened: got a job in a start up, did better than everyone else, and now I can't be replaced (shortage of devs helps a ton with this as well)
I don't think you have a chance on earth to go nomad with those skills, though
These “how do I start X business” threads are so fucking cringe. It doesn’t matter what you do for business the hardest part about making it work is GETTING clients. You can be fucking brilliant and creative, etc. but if you cannot figure out how to get somebody to trust you and hand over money in exchange for your service/product. You won’t ever make it.
If you can’t sell for shit, you need to find a partner who can.
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This.
Most people selling this stupid idea had a successful business first, then they pretend they are digital nomads but they are only vlogging/selling online courses and this kind of shit.
That's not really where their money comes from.
>You can be fucking brilliant and creative, etc. but if you cannot figure out how to get somebody to trust you and hand over money in exchange for your service/product. You won’t ever make it.
>If you can’t sell for shit, you need to find a partner who can.
Sales solves all problems I guess
Are you sure? I'm seeing loads of PM/BA work for positions that are 100% remote
>digital consultancy
Is a job like that as much completely waffly bullshit as it sounds like?
Because it sounds like words that mean very little specific.
>100% remote
If you have to actually properly work full time with reliable internet speed you're probably not going to be sitting on a beach in Thailand. Why would you even want to?
you could be looking at the beach through your condo window though as you work and get ur knob slobbed
But why? You either work or you don't work. If you don't want to work, get rich and don't work.
>why work remotely from Thailand while getting your dick sucked during the daily stand-up
>when you could get fired working in the US for sneezing next to a feminist and having your bacteria rape her and you get fired and #metoo'd
Yeah you’re gonna have to throw your kid off a boat though
I only recently started making decent money and can work remotely, Im a 30 yr old Boomer. Im going to Japan / Korea / Singapore and will spend a couple months seeing the sights and working a couple times a week remotely. I thought Id work a bunch then retire but not at the rate Im going so I just want to visit places I want to check out before I get too old so I gotta work/travel at once plus I can spend longer staying in different areas to get a feel of what life would be like there.
Japan and spore are expensive unless you stay in a 2-3 star hotel with dirty sheets. I am in spore so if you have questions, ask fast.
Better on the balcony with a 6 pack of Chang
Im splurging a little bit in Japan but am switching from nicer hotels to APA depending on what Im doing. Singapore Im only going because my brother will be there for work so hes letting me stay with him and share his per diem.
Any recommendations for what to do in Singapore if its my first/only time going? Ill be watching travel videos and doing more research as it gets close, will be there in Feb. Any recommended coworking spaces?
Probably not what you are looking for, but here's how I did for the decade that was my 30's. I learned a trade that was useful in exotic locals. For me it was Hyperbaric Medicine. I have lived in Hawaii, Truk Lagoon, Belize, Koh Samui and Phuket Thailand, Mexico, The Seychelles, and Indonesia. HBO treats diving decompression illness, so basically wherever there was sport diving by tourists, there would be a chamber that I ran and managed. You have no idea how often drunk tourists get themselves bent.
There are workshare spaces but I don't use them so I don't know the cost. Most people just use starbucks.
Universal Studios has a couple nice rollercoasters but the lines can be long of coarse (transformers, mummy, and a couple ŕeally fast ones near mummy). Have some drinks and watch the ladies at bikini beach bar sentosa. Go to golden mile complex for cheap thrills, massage and a taste of thailand. Try geylang if you're into that. Avoid sim lim and funan, for some reason electronics are more expensive in singapore than America.
Try clarke quay for drinks at night by the river. Avoid the singaporean branded beer and coffee. Walk down orchard for sightseeing.
Thanks, bookmarked em on google maps. Id check out geyland but just to look, Im too paranoid for full service but would do a massage/handy.
Massage is not in geylang.
For a one hour oil massage you pay about 50sgd (pick the lady or you may get a fatty by default). They will ask you about special 10 minutes before the massage is over. Give them the hand motion for what you want and say 50sgd. If you just want a special ask for the 30sgd 30 min massage and they will know why you are there.
KTV is expensive and they may spike your drink.
Gotcha, thats pretty cheap, thanks again
What else you looking to do?
You can also ask @cryptosg on telegram
I'll just tell you and every other random person on 4channel what I'm doing user so that it stops making me money. Makes sense
Wanting to check out a strip club just to compare it to back home, eat, drink wine, maybe go to a concert, check out anything famous or museums or any war history, hangout with my brother at some normal places for dinner/drinks. I might try to get a date off Tinder.
I make money as a freelance stock market commentator and also as a copywriter. I got the stock market writing gig from a job alert I had signed up for, the pay is $75 an article and I write about 15 a week. This gig is about 80% of my income right now, and it's one of the easiest freelance writing gigs I've had in the sense that there are no revisions because we have editors on staff, but you need to really know about investing to do it.
The copywriting thing is WAY more variable, my peak was early 2017 when I was making 6k a month but I lost a few clients and am now down to 1k a month on that gig. However, the precipitous decline is partially because I started doing the stock market commentary thing, if I'd been actively promoting my copywriting service I'd be doing better.
I'm also trying to break into web development and youtubing, neither of these are really making money now. On the web dev side, every now and then I get a copywriting client who'll mention they want a website and I'll nab a few hundred dollars in fees from that, but I haven't really got a steady pipeline for web dev leads. On youtube I technically have enough subs to monetize but I only get about 1000 views a day which won't get me shit, so I'm going to try to grow my channel more before I do that.
Anyway I've been doing this shit since 2011 and I've never been on the streets or anything like that. Ummmm... It beats McDonald's?
Oh my god why would you do that
I really don't understand foreigners who leave the US and engage in degeneracy. You realize that in Singapore and most other SE asian countries they will hang you in public if you have even a gram of weed on you? Why would you go in places where you could be drugged and robbed? It's not like it's hard to find women in these countries. Why even go near where bargirls and pervert foreigners go?
Good food is expensive, especially steak. There is pork rice and char siew rice everywhere, those are good but make sure the stall is rated a or b (there will be a sign). There is no free toilet paper or napkins. As far as I know there are no strip clubs and you won't see any ladies naked unless you get an escort or pay them for b2b massage 100sgd. There are no drugs and bubblegum will get you a caning.
I dont do any drugs. I like checking out a strip club just because I used to do that with a friend when we traveled til he passed away etc. Usually we'd just get a bottle so we watch them open it and watch each others drinks. The dark dingy atmosphere just reminds me of a dystopian future or cyberpunk films. For me its just a one time thing while Im there then a massage on another night. I was in Japan for a month and just went out drinking maybe twice, then got a massage once. I try to be really careful, its not like I do that every day.
Ill use up all my bubble gum in Japan before heading over. I carry a ton to eat after meals. Thats weird about the toilet paper, I thought Singapore is super western.
Strip clubs are a western thing, it's almost nonexistant here. I don't think there are b2b massage in golden mile, better try peoples park in chinatown.
If you went back in time would you do the wife/kids thing again?
Based. Strip clubs are great fun. Don't listen to these salty moral fags.
You can go to places in Thailand where basically the entire street is nothing but stripclubs. Though they are called Go Go Bars over there but it's basically the same thing.
In Singapore you'd be right. Dunno why anyone would go there for fun. It seems like a fascist dictatorships. But Thailand is much more relaxed and fun aside from no drugs. But I'm not a druggie anyways so I don't really care. Tons of whores, strip clubs and alcohol there.
Thailand gives off the appearance of being relaxed and has a bit of an identity crisis. The police there are very strict and many activities that farang engage in are legally criminal acts. Those bargirls will ruin your life and have relationships with the cops. On the other hand, if you can meet a normal Thai woman they are great. They are fairly aggressive sexually if that’s what you like. Thai society is quite conservative and if you live in a part of Thailand that doesn’t have farangs its pretty safe, food is cheap and people are amicable.
There is no toilet paper in Asia user, you use either a bidet gun, a bucket of water and or your left hand. There is bathroom tissue but that’s to dry your already spotless bum and you throw it in the trash
If youre a girl you be a hooker and pretend you run a website doing something
If youre a guy you be a trustfund beneficiary and pretend you run a website doing something
There you go I just saved you all the bluepilled bullshit about how you'll create a dropshipping business
What sort of things are illegal that us farangs engage in? I've been in Thailand for a cumulative 5 months and never once had problems with cops there. Sure I've heard old boomers compalin but those fags compalin about everything. I'm not there for love, I just want to bang some cheap girls and enjoy myself at go go bars. I never brought bar girls home either. I generally stayed in Pattaya most of the time.
How will bar girls ruin me? I made a few friends with locals there, none of them bar girls. Made friends with hotel maids and with some of the massage ladies.