How I Make Money While I Travel
Welcome to the 24th edition of “How to Make Money While You Travel” which features successful nomadic teams and interviews with travel entrepreneurs.
For the final edition of 2016, I have answered the same questions from my nomad interview series! For those of you who don’t know me, my name is Dave Weatherall. I am the creator of That Travel Blog.
I am a blogger, social media influencer and online entrepreneur. My mission is to create unique and insightful content that caters to an audience of young, ambitious travelling entrepreneurs and those who aspire to be one.
Q1: So, how do you make money while you travel?
I can travel indefinitely because I work on-the-go. I founded a team of digital marketing nomads whilst working from and travelling to 19 countries around the world. Today, I write and sell e-guides. I freelance for companies on-the-go. I interview travel bloggers, successful nomadic teams, and a total of 24 entrepreneurs last year. I get sponsored on Instagram. I also write for a small collection of online magazines.
Q2: What were you doing before That Travel Blog?
I left school without A-Levels or a University degree and started working in a Marketing Agency in London when I was just 17 years old. I worked hard, I built a freelance portfolio over the weekends and by the time I was 20, I had founded and was growing my own nomadic digital marketing team from the beaches of Portugal.
School wasn’t for me. It’s not that I didn’t like learning, I wasn’t learning enough and I knew that whatever qualification I came out with in the end, wouldn’t make me stand out from the millions of others just like me. And anyway, who needs formal qualifications when you want to be your own boss?
on Dec 18, 2016 at 6:52am PST
It is however easy to overwork. Some days I get too obsessed and I can honestly work 14 hours straight, almost 7 days a week. For this reason, I try to make sure I have some kind of escapade booked every weekend, while remembering to take breaks when I’m working. This all helps me keep my creative juices flowing during the week.
Q8: What would your advice be to someone who wants to quit their desk job to become location independent?
I urge you not to spend the next 40 years investing your life into somebody else’s business in the hope of a secure future. In the better words of Jim Carrey whilst commenting on the life choices of his late father:
“You can fail at what you don’t want. So you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.”
It’s better than looking back on what could have been. Try to think of the worst-case scenario. Is it really that bad? Probably not!
Q9: What is your favourite travel quote?
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”
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