Replying to @the_jaydenblade The difference between people who move abroad and people who stay stuck isn't resources. It's whether they see barriers as immovable or solvable. The obstacle framing vs solution framing: Obstacle framing: "I don't have remote skills" (stops there, accepts as unchangeable). Solution framing: "I don't have remote skills yet, but I have customer service experience which IS a remote skill if I repackage it." One mindset treats current state as permanent. Other treats it as starting point. Why customer service is undervalued: People dismiss it as "just customer service" like it's not real skill. Meanwhile businesses pay $40-75/hour for virtual assistants who: respond to customer emails, manage support tickets, handle client communication, coordinate schedules, process orders. That's customer service. Repackaged. Charged at professional rate instead of hourly wage. The employee vs freelance value gap: Customer service employee: $15-20/hour, employer bills client $50-75/hour for your work, you see $15-20, employer keeps $30-55. Customer service freelancer/VA: charge clients $40-60/hour directly, keep full amount, 2-3x your employee income. Same skills. Different packaging. Different income level. The "I don't know how to find clients" barrier: You also didn't know how to find your current job before you found it. You learned: how to write resume, where to search, how to interview, how to present yourself. Finding freelance clients is same process: how to present skills, where to search, how to communicate value, how to close deals. Learnable. Just different from W-2 employment process you already know. What "never earned money this way before" actually means: You've never been paid directly by clients. You've been paid by employer who found clients and gave you fraction. Learning to find clients yourself isn't mystical skill. It's: identifying who needs customer service help (small businesses, solopreneurs, online companies), reaching out offering service, delivering work, getting paid. The gatekeeping accusation: There's no secret. The "secret" people think exists is just: provide skill someone will pay for, use that income to qualify for visa, move to country offering remote work visa. People want secret shortcut that doesn't require: building new income stream, doing uncomfortable things, learning unfamiliar processes. That shortcut doesn't exist. The path is: develop marketable skill, monetize it, use income to qualify. Why "I can't afford to move" is choice: Can't afford = "I'm not willing to restructure my income/expenses to make moving possible." Can afford = "I'm willing to build remote income, cut expenses, do uncomfortable things to make this happen." Both valid. One is honest about being choice. Other pretends it's circumstance. The visa qualification math: Remote work visas require: $2,000-3,500/month typically. Customer service VA charging $50/hour: 40 billable hours/month = $2,000. 60 billable hours/month = $3,000. 80 billable hours/month = $4,000. That's 10-20 hours per week of billable client work. Not full-time. Not impossible. Not requiring degree or specialized certification. What standing in the way: Not lack of skills (customer service IS skill). Not lack of opportunity (businesses need this constantly). Not lack of countries accepting remote workers (95+ countries). What's standing in way: unwillingness to do unfamiliar uncomfortable things, preference for staying stuck over risking failure trying new approach, waiting for solution that doesn't require effort. The deck isn't stacked against you: The deck is: you have marketable skill, businesses pay well for that skill, countries accept remote workers with that income. You're choosing to see: obstacles, barriers, reasons it won't work. Both perspectives looking at same situation. One immobilizes. Other mobilizes. Link in bio when ready to solve problems instead of listing them. Are you looking for obstacles or solutions? 🆘🇺🇸
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I get comments like this all the time. Here are all the reasons why we can't move abroad. No skills, this kind of dog, what am I supposed to do? How can I afford to move abroad? And the reality is you don't need that much money to be able to move abroad. You need to create an income stream that allows you to sponsor yourself on a visa. So what I would say to these people who are in this particular situation, with what they feel like is the deck totally stacked against them, is that you need to create an income stream of your own. You say the only skill that you have is customer service. Well, fantastic. Customer service is a very marketable skill. And you can use that customer service in order to become a virtual assistant and provide customer service to clients for whatever company you can convince to let you be the customer service for them. That's all it is. It's not rocket science. It's just you going out and finding clients. And what I would say to anyone who is uncomfortable doing that is that in order to earn money in a way that you've never earned it before, you have to do things that you've never done before. But if you want to move abroad, you will be willing to do those things that you've never done in order to create the income that you've never earned. So that you can sponsor your own visa and get the hell out of the United States. So stop looking at it as, well, I'm this age and I only have these skills. Look at it as here's how I can take the skills that I do have and make money from it. Making money remotely does not require you to get a job. It requires you to provide services to somebody who is willing to pay you. That's it. That's the only secret. If we've been gatekeeping anything, it's just that somebody needs to pay you for services and then you use that income to prove to a foreign government that you have income. That is remote. And then you apply for a visa and move. So these are all totally solvable problems and you are in control of when you are going to solve them. But you are also in control of choosing not to solve them. It's entirely up to you. If you actually want to move abroad, you will do the things that you've never done before in order to do that.
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