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      "body": "![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmVsu9CWinaYim8LFZLGETz19sDySuB281oojhwvBAmv8P/image.png)\n\nI blame my friend Wei. If she hadn’t pushed me to apply for that job in Africa, I likely would have returned from my brief stint as a remote worker while down at Hacker Paradise in Costa Rica, and gone back to the normal job. So from the bottom of my heart, thank you Wei! 🙂\n\nOver the last three years, I have worked as a freelance web developer and location independent entrepreneur. I have visited five of seven continents, eaten way too much food (I’m looking at you, Phở 🍜), walked more than I drove, and met countless amazing people who have all shaped me in different ways.\n\n![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmWGAF21FhPHUxXG9iC8yqTYHdUH2Mx5VAnHUHQ3FynD2j/image.png)\nAbove: Tour of all things dim-sum with my AirBnB host in Hong Kong (and chicken feet 🐔 ).\n\nMy life during that time has been nothing short of an amazing and humbling learning and growing experience. 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The competition is stiff for remote work, especially if you want a salary comparable to Western standards, and you will have to do a little more work upfront.\n\nThat not to say that it’s impossible to make money online or that all the jobs pay terribly. Instead, just as with interviewing for a ‘real 9–5 job’, you must distinguish yourself to employers/clients and stand out above some of the noise. Show them why they should hire you!\n\nManaging business tasks, like opening a bank account or filing taxes, things that would be simple at home, can present challenges when you are location independent. These issues are becoming more manageable thanks to the growing number of digital nomads running location independent businesses to turn to for help and advice and to government initiatives like Estonia’s e-Residency program.\n\n# Lesson 2: It takes work to maintain connections\n\n“Well duh, Kevin. Of course it will take work to keep connections back at home. Tell me something I haven’t read somewhere else.” It might sound obvious to you, but until everything in your previous life and all your family is half a world away, it might not mean the same thing or truly sink in.\n\nMany people have written about the loneliness that digital nomads can succumb to while on the road. It’s easy in the beginning to get swept up in the newness of the traveling. You’re meeting new people and seeing all sorts of exotic sights. You might hardly think about home.\n\nAfter while, be it several months or several years, things can change. You find yourself with a sense that that life back home has been moving on without you or you might feel more and more detached from it when you return. It can be a shocking revelation to realize that you can no longer associate with home, and yet are left, in the present, with nothing that might take its place either.\n\n![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmdSHKzZae1dr5zmFedXAqS3YnjH1uiQL6dSZqFqyooZ5f/image.png)\nAbove: My go-to quick lunch in Cần Thơ —Bánh bao\n\n\n# Lesson 3: Finding a purpose to your travels and work is a HUGE game changer.\n\nI was feeling really burned out working as a location independent entrepreneur after almost three years. There seemed to be no point to it all of working, other than to make money in order to pay the rent/bills, to eat, and to keep traveling and put off getting a ‘real job’. Business issues were hanging over me all the time from regulatory things to client work problems. Even travel had gotten old too. New places were often more about just checking off boxes. Pretty white sandy beaches started blurring together.\n\n**I was ready to throw in the towel…**\n\nThe catalysis came about quite accidentally, but prompted a massive shift in mindset and began to turn things around for me completely. I had decided I wanted to start a new business, in order to diversify away from the consulting and agency work I was doing. I ended up coming up with something that was of a hybrid between a for-profit and NGO. I’m excited to be working on the logistics, setting it up, pitching investors, and then hopefully watching it grow.\n\nHaving something meaningful to work towards and motivate you is rocket fuel for enacting positive change. I went from a depressed, scarcity mindset driven outlook, to actively trying to cultivate a more abundance oriented mindset.\n\nI can’t take all the credit. It was also partly due to meeting my girlfriend. We are opposites in many ways, but she helps to keep me from veering too far out into the left field. 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This site can give you more information about validity of stays for various visa types, costs, and processing times.\n\n![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmXbpLd34F6xwdG3pWJEn7RNSVdGxDpAEeDtEN9F2cDhch/image.png)\n\n# Rule #2. Book an onward ticket\n\nMany airlines are cracking down on non-resident passengers, forcing them to produce a ticket proving their onward travel. Whether you’re asked to provided one is highly dependent on several factors. These could be: the destination you’re going to, the airline you’re flying on, or even the mood of the immigration or airline agent.\n\nI’ve noticed an uptick in the number of times I’ve been asked to provided it in the last few years. So what can a nomad do if they don’t know where they’ll be after visiting a country? Several techniques are useful:\n\n- **Buy a refundable ticket ** —  Much more expensive than a normal ticket, but is the best bet if you have the cash you put up for it, as far as getting questioned about it. This option is not as useful if you travel faster since the time to get your refund might not be as quick as you hope and you might end up tying up a sizable amount of capital in pending airline refunds. Those funds could be better put to use on scuba diving or lattes.\n- ~~**FlyOnward.com **~~ —  You are renting a ticket for about US$10. FlyOnward issues you a ticket in your name that is valid for 24 hours. This makes sure that you’re “in the system” if an agent checks the ticket. This is the option that I use the most frequently now. Saves me so much stress for the small cost. **(UPDATE: This provider is out of buiness now. I am searching for a new one now and will update this when I find a reliable one. )**\n- **Purchase a ticket at the check-in counter**  —  Worst. Option. Ever. Before I found FlyOnward I was forced to do this twice by the airline, or they would not have let me on board. It results in paying far more for the flight, often making a snap decision of where and when you are going. I remember looking at my phone the following morning after a flight through Dubai and remembering that I’d booked an onward ticket at 2am after having gotten very little sleep on the flight there. Wrong dates than intended, terrible times for departure and landing, and higher costs. Lesson learned!\n\n# Rule #3. Check for additional visa fees\n\nSome countries will require fees paid on arrival for a visa. They will usually require it to be in a certain currency, not necessarily in the currency of that country either. Exact change is expected in other places too. Hand over a crisp US$100 bill for a $25 stamping fee? Ouch! You have been warned…\n\nDon’t be the gringo asking strangers if they have spare change in US$ to pay your visa stamping fee. Check ahead of time. Vietnam and Cambodia come to mind for Southeast Asia. There may or may not be ATMs available for you at the airport prior to clearing immigration (and you can not assume they will dispense the correct currencies that you need).\n\n# Rule #4. Dress well (and smile!)\n![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmYPe5MhG3Yuy7bFamuofWbTQzUpPhojkhdoVNUESuwLYM/image.png)\n\nThis advice came from my father (an avid business traveller himself) and I’ve always applied it to my travels as well. It might sounds a little odd, but I’ve found it to hold true.\n\nLooking presentable when you’re going through the process of travel can make a big difference in the reactions and service you receive. I strive to have business casual wear, at the least, for travelling through airports, immigrations, and customs.\n\nThe way I like to think about it is this: **You are a guest in their country.** You should do your best in the way you present yourself and act to project respect to the said country and people. 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      "body": "![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmcmskt8nsPN41KTf4X4a4yWR1jQdnJ6PcPmR83zAxXe6B/image.png)\nWhen you talk about digital nomad “hot spots” and getting started as a nomad, the conversation will almost invariably shift to locations primarily Asia. Why is that? What is it about Asia that makes it better for a digital nomad just starting out?\n\n# Costs\nMost digital nomads just starting out on the whole location independent experience are trying to get clients for freelance work, grow a blog, launch a startup product, etc. They are not in the steady earning phase yet, by and large.\n\nThus, cutting costs and ‘extending the runway’ is incredibly important if they truly want to make it as a digital nomad. Once the money runs out they have to throw in the towel. Having extra cash for a few more months of hustle can make all the difference.\n\nAsia offers more locations and options for a nomad, at a lower price point than South America. 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This site can give you more information about validity of stays for various visa types, costs, and processing times.\n\n![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmXbpLd34F6xwdG3pWJEn7RNSVdGxDpAEeDtEN9F2cDhch/image.png)\n\n# Rule #2. Book an onward ticket\n\nMany airlines are cracking down on non-resident passengers, forcing them to produce a ticket proving their onward travel. Whether you’re asked to provided one is highly dependent on several factors. These could be: the destination you’re going to, the airline you’re flying on, or even the mood of the immigration or airline agent.\n\nI’ve noticed an uptick in the number of times I’ve been asked to provided it in the last few years. So what can a nomad do if they don’t know where they’ll be after visiting a country? Several techniques are useful:\n\n- **Buy a refundable ticket ** —  Much more expensive than a normal ticket, but is the best bet if you have the cash you put up for it, as far as getting questioned about it. This option is not as useful if you travel faster since the time to get your refund might not be as quick as you hope and you might end up tying up a sizable amount of capital in pending airline refunds. Those funds could be better put to use on scuba diving or lattes.\n- ~~**FlyOnward.com **~~ —  You are renting a ticket for about US$10. FlyOnward issues you a ticket in your name that is valid for 24 hours. This makes sure that you’re “in the system” if an agent checks the ticket. This is the option that I use the most frequently now. Saves me so much stress for the small cost. **(UPDATE: This provider is out of buiness now. I am searching for a new one now and will update this when I find a reliable one. )**\n- **Purchase a ticket at the check-in counter**  —  Worst. Option. Ever. Before I found FlyOnward I was forced to do this twice by the airline, or they would not have let me on board. It results in paying far more for the flight, often making a snap decision of where and when you are going. I remember looking at my phone the following morning after a flight through Dubai and remembering that I’d booked an onward ticket at 2am after having gotten very little sleep on the flight there. Wrong dates than intended, terrible times for departure and landing, and higher costs. Lesson learned!\n\n# Rule #3. Check for additional visa fees\n\nSome countries will require fees paid on arrival for a visa. They will usually require it to be in a certain currency, not necessarily in the currency of that country either. Exact change is expected in other places too. Hand over a crisp US$100 bill for a $25 stamping fee? Ouch! You have been warned…\n\nDon’t be the gringo asking strangers if they have spare change in US$ to pay your visa stamping fee. Check ahead of time. Vietnam and Cambodia come to mind for Southeast Asia. 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This option is not as useful if you travel faster since the time to get your refund might not be as quick as you hope and you might end up tying up a sizable amount of capital in pending airline refunds. Those funds could be better put to use on scuba diving or lattes.\n- ~~**FlyOnward.com **~~ —  You are renting a ticket for about US$10. FlyOnward issues you a ticket in your name that is valid for 24 hours. This makes sure that you’re “in the system” if an agent checks the ticket. This is the option that I use the most frequently now. Saves me so much stress for the small cost. **(UPDATE: This provider is out of buiness now. I am searching for a new one now and will update this when I find a reliable one. )**\n- **Purchase a ticket at the check-in counter**  —  Worst. Option. Ever. Before I found FlyOnward I was forced to do this twice by the airline, or they would not have let me on board. 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