How to make money in a foreign country? I have no real marketable

everybody goes through that OP
you'll either grow out of it or grow the balls to live as you want
the latter may be suicidal though

>>1167893
I'm trying to live how I want you retard. I just want to know how to make money abroad. If you don't have a good answer then fuck off.

The best ability is availability. Make friends and keep your mind open to opportunity

That sounded like a fortune cookie

Most jobs here goes through connections. Knowing people in places helps more than anything else. Unfortunate for everyone.
Norwayman

>>1167872

You can find work doing a shitty job like working in a hostel anywhere. But I think you should ask yourself why you'd rather do a shitty job in Cambodia than a shitty job in your home country?

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>>1167906

>>1167872
Whatever the seasonal work might be in said country. Every seasonal industry has high turnover rate because it's not a consistent source of income for the full year, so there's always openings at the beginning of the season and if you're desperate enough then mot of these jobs can be had with very little experience.
Examples of seasonal jobs
>fruit picking
>Produce selling
>fishing/fish farms
>Tree planting
>Anything connected to the tourism industry, from picture taking to tour guides
>restaurant work in a resort town
>construction
>smuggling cocaine.
>

>>1167872
No country worth a shit will let you work in their country without a college degree.

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I understand where you coming from bud.

I'm two months into my senior year at my university right now and i hate my living situation and the city that i live in. Cant can't wait to graduate, GTFO of Long Beach CA and teach english in a Spanish speaking country to become fluent and talk to lovely hispanic women.

If you know you can finish college just do it man. Tough it out and make it happen, it will make you far more competitive when your abroad and you actually find a job that you want to stick with.

If your living with your parents milk it, i live on my own right now and it makes saving money waaaay harder. Just keep on studying and saving money bud, your only making yourself stronger and smarter by doing so. Saving your money and graduating college are the best things you can do for yourself at this point.

Stay strong brother!

>>1167872
Damn, it's nice to be young, asking these questions. Save a screenshot of it, op. In 10 years you'll shed a tear or two while driving to the bank to discuss your mortgage

>>1168789
>mortgage

not OP but I don't want this

I'd rather buy and maintain a half-decent motor home and just live in that

I worked as a bartender in Lofoten, Norway for whole summer, earned 15k $ and I'll be travelling for next 4 months.

>>1167872

I'm not sure what you're expecting to do if you have no marketable skills, degrees, or talents.

I've traveled a fair amount and don't see the appeal in going to another country to work as a waiter or waitress. To each their own. There are plenty of strange jobs and odd bits of work you can pick up by networking and making new friends.

I'm in India right now. The only reason I came here is because I can't take classes again until January and was getting sick of my job. Since I had $1100 in flight vouchers, I figured I may as well come here rather than sit around on my ass back in the States. I didn't have much money saved up, as I hadn't been planning on traveling until at least the winter.

Currently I do a fair amount of freelance writing work. I'm not rolling in money, but it's enough to make the loan payments on my motorbike, keep lodging covered, eat, and travel around. A lot of the people in my hostel are staying in India long-term, with several working in our city. I've had a few people who saw my writing pass on my contact to their colleagues and acquaintances. In fact, I should be writing an article for a magazine now but I'm piss-lazy and want to sleep.

I also make about $100 per week doing club promotion stuff. Basically, I take white people to clubs three times per week, sit in a chair, smoke, and drink free booze from 10pm or 11pm until 1am.

Again, not great money, but more than enough for India. I'm living a middle-class life, by Indian standards, by being white and shitposting in grown-up publications.

I'm a British citizen and am planning on applying for the military after I've been travelling there for a while

>>1167872
I suggest Australia.

asians come here on working holiday visas and do a bunch of random jobs, like waitressing or working as a kitchen hand while living with roommates doing the same thing and basically living like a hollywood movie.

>>1169181
So how was that in any way helpful?

>>1169193

By relating the experiences I've had with what OP is asking, you bumblefuck.

Can you write? Give it a try. Can you talk to people? Give it a fucking try. Bringing white people to a club to enjoy free booze isn't a "marketable skill" any more than convincing Winnie the Pooh to eat a jar of honey.

I came here and I got shit figured out quickly. Maybe OP can do the same.

Also check out WWOOFing, WorkAway, working holiday visas, blah blah fucking blah.

I love /trv/ but sometimes I don't get why people need this shit explained to them. If you can't figure out how to make two cents abroad or do a Google search for "make money while traveling," you should just stay at home.

These threads are cancer almost on par with "can a purple guy get laid with purple chicks in pattaya?" threads. None of these "what do I do with my life" and "sick of america how do i move to europe" people ever do any of this shit, they just come on /trv/ to fantasize about crap.

>>1168781
I'm a graduate. Short of carrying my degree around with me, how does graduation make me any different than someone who finished some college? I mean, someone who did just some college can just be like "yeah I graduated"

I have the same question as of except...

>I have a bachelor's in economics from a top 50 us uni
>I have worked in customer service and sales jobs before
>I interned at an NGO
>I speak Arabic and spanish
>I worked as an editor in my school's political paper

Would be interested in getting a job in SEA and I have a friend in Vietnam that I met at university that is part of the Vietnamese upper class.

What do you guys have for me?

Find something on WOOFF or Workaway. That will give you connections and some time to live without spending much. It might even gain you a marketable skill.
I spend 4-5 months per year in USA working as a gardener/farmhand and then spend the rest of the year in Asia. I travel with my girlfriend who makes about $200 per month teaching yoga online. I occasionally tutor local kids in English, for which I am totally unqualified. Sometimes I give people little tours on the back of my motorbike in exchange for them filling my gas tank at the end of the day.

It helps if you don't spend money on alcohol. Also, rent a place with a kitchen, it's way cheaper to cook for yourself and local markets have unique ingredients to experiment with.

In the past three years I've spent 12 months in Thailand over 3 visits, 3 months in Indonesia, 7 months in Sri Lanka, and 2 months in India. Visited a few others in between. It can work if you're nice to people and keep putting yourself out there and not being afraid.

>>1169611

You're so right. To us rational people its just a piece of paper. i mean, i know so many brilliant people who did not even need college; however, that degree makes that resume attractive and opens up a lot of doors my friend.

>>1169204
>>1169181
You're basically living the life I'm shooting for. I've had steady freelance writing work with one company for about a year. Any advice on landing some new gigs?

I always wanted to do the digital nomad thing, but I heard it was nigh-impossible to break into freelance writing unless you had work you could point to. Now I do (it's really not that impressive, but the bar is apparently way lower than I ever expected.)

my only problem is that the company I write for is gunning really hard for me to go in-house full time, so I don't think they'd do a recommendation, lest they lose me.

>>1169615
Go teach English, man. It's a pretty neat way to see the world and if you're not a total spazz you can turn your experiences abroad in your favor.

I just moved to Hanoi recently and I'm loving it so far desu.

>>1169656
I've heard you don't need to speak the local language to teach English there. Is it true?

How does that work? Do most of the students know some english already?

>>1169661

>I've heard you don't need to speak the local language to teach English there. Is it true?

Most modern teaching methods would say that using the students' native language only holds them back. I might use some of their language if they're really stuck on the meaning of a word or something small for the sake of saving time.

>How does that work? Do most of the students know some english already?
You have to choose your words carefully, especially with the lower levels. Most jobs would require you to do a month long course and you would be trained on all that there. By the end of the course, you could be parachuted into the Amazon and with your training should be able to teach anyone using only English.

Working holiday in New Zealand
Working holiday in Australia
25 posts ITT and nobody gives OP the obvious answer.

>>1169204
>None of these "what do I do with my life" and "sick of america how do i move to europe" people ever do any of this shit, they just come on /trv/ to fantasize about crap.

Well said anon. It's why I never bother giving advice to these Walter Mitty types. It would be nice if one of them who successfully left their old life behind logged onto /trv/ to do an AMA or give an update or something.

>>1169730
My cousin has been doing this for awhile now. I was surprised that you don't need to know the language of the person you are teaching in order to teach them english, but I suppose it's all a matter of defining things through imagery, similar to how Rosetta stone works/

>>1167872
Finish your degree, you shit head. then fuck off overseas. The rest will sort itself out.

>>1167906
Edgy

>>1169644
How do you get any freelance work? WHERE DO I START

>>1170006

Fiverr can help to get started and get more permanent deals.

>>1170006
Networking and luck in my case. A little gumption. I was in a bar and a friend of a friend mentioned he needed X content written for his site. I was like "yeah I can write that". Dude didn't seem to believe me, understandably, so I wrote a piece without him asking and emailed it to him on good faith. He liked it, paid me for it and now i do stuff on the reg for him.

>>1169644

I had a slightly different start with writing.

I'd made a joke to a classmate about writing her essays in exchange for money. She thought I was serious and asked how much I'd take. I did all of her papers for the class. After the semester was over, she told another friend about me, who told another friend about me and then another and another. I have a really big network of students back in the United States who pay me $15-$30 per double spaced page. Since I type 150 words per minute, I occasionally make up to $60 or $70 per hour.

The second time I was in India, in 2014, I hooked up with a girl who did magazine articles for a men's interest publication. She had me meet the editor, who liked my writing a lot, and I worked with them for about a year. It wasn't too challenging or interested, but I got to have my name published in print.

Been easy for me ever since to land new gigs, although I get a lot more work from networking and meeting new people than I do sleuthing around online for opportunities.

>>1169767

That's all I've ever been waiting for on /trv/. I think there was one Anon who made an "I want to move to Japan thread" a while back and who actually wounded up moving there. Only instance I can remember.

I regard most of the "I'm sick of life, tell me how to become a vagabond" or "I'm sick of country X and moving to country Y, tell me about it" threads as garbage.

>>I have no real marketable skills or a degree

Have you considered crime like everyone else? You fucking child.

>>1167872
Listen very carefully, OP:
Tough it up and finish your degree. If college sucks, either deal with it (having in mind it will pay off in the future), or switch majors if that's the problem. In this economy you're barely worth shit in a foreign country without some sort of marketable degree. And if you're really so dead-set on living abroad, take a semester abroad in college and save up money to travel when you have a holiday.

When you get out of college you will probably have a better idea of what you want to do. It might seem fun for a while to drop everything right now and travel, but you'll much sooner be closer to where you want to be if you make an effort in college.

>>1170230
you should write some books of some sort, just to get a passive income stream going

set it up so that your passive income pays for your basic expenses and the rest is gravy

>>1172014

A lot of people have told me to write a book but I've no idea what my unique sell would be. There are so many "white twenty-something traveling the world" stories that I'd have to mull over my own catch.

>>1167906
Graphic designer or escort.

Both can be learned how to do in 24 hours.

Have done both overseas and lived off for a year. About $800 per week as graphics designer, $2,000 a week as escort.

Good luck OP.

>>1169615
Stop saying you went to a top 50 US uni unless they ask you where you got your degree, it just makes you sound like an insufferable faggot. Chances are they won't have heard of it, and at any rate even our shittiest community college gives a higher quality of education than their best international university so name-dropping the institution that you got your BSc/BA/BTech from is pretty much a waste of breath.

Apart from that, your qualifications and experience sound rather interesting, I'm sure you won't have any trouble getting a job as long as you don't act like an autist during the interview.

>>1173619
>american community colleges better than vietnamese universities
top kek mate, which meme did you fall for? the blacks being able to pass middle school math meme, or the 8th grade reading level average for college matriculants being "best colleges in the world" meme.

which one is it, huh?

>>1173622
I was meming about that bit, but first-world universities really are leagues better than their international counterparts in jungle Asian countries. If you're foolish enough to believe otherwise, you're either Swedish or you've never attended/known somebody who's attended a university in the ASEAN area.

>>1169615
>What do you guys have for me?
What is it you want from us except to tell you how great you are? What more could you possibly need? Fucking talk to people or something, you're qualified to do just about anything from tourism to TEFL to starting your own business. This thread is expressly about how to make it if one lacks the extensive qualifications you laid out in your post, so I'm not sure why the hell you'd think it was fit to ask us what to do if you have them.

>>1169767
Me and my friend have tickets to Spain, Nov 3rd. I am from Brazil and have only 700 euro. We couldn't find Couchsurfing or Workaway yet, so I might just go directly to Netherlands (where I know some ppl) as soon as we get to Madrid. Getting a job there probably won't happen.

I can make around 500usd a month playing poker 3h/day online.

More if I go to casinos, but I don't have a lot of money to risk


I'm doing it, faggot

fuck off

I've been WWOOFing for a bit and a good way to snag some extra cash in country is to just make friends with the farmers, and then sometimes they'll say stuff like "hey, I've got a buddy down the road who needs some help harvesting some stuff/working with some animals tomorrow. He'll pay you if you wanna help out for a day or two"

Shit like that. Make connections and start offering help. It's astounding how easy it is to make (small amounts of) money anywhere. It's just about not being a pussy.

>>1173811
You'll be an illegal immigrant after 90 days. Have fun getting deported and banned from all of Europe.

>>1174224
90 days is enough to have fun and maybe get some gigs, then come back home and get ready for the next trip

staymad wagecuck

If you're fluent in English that's like a free pass to living in most countries.

Aside from that I'd say the best way is to find something you can do 100% online. I'm due to move abroad shortly so I've got a few clients to do their bookkeeping work (easy to learn if you don't know how). It's easy and wouldn't be enough to live off at home but where I'm heading it should do me for the basics.

>>1169181
>>1169644
>>1170049
>>1170230
>freelance writing work
This would be my preferred option for topping up income. I imagine I'll have to build up a small body of work to point to, for free and fuck knows if anyone would actually read it.

Is there any area in particular that I'm more likely to find opportunities for paid work? I know about football and politics but they seem obvious and I'd be surprised if either are not completely saturated with 21 year old hopefuls.