Replying to @natelandon1 The obsession with finding remote job that allows international work is limiting your options and keeping you stuck waiting for permission you don’t actually need. Remote job means: employer controls whether you can work internationally, employer decides if you’re allowed to relocate, employer can revoke permission at any time, you’re dependent on their policies about where employees can be located. Remote income means: you control where you work from, you decide when you relocate, clients don’t care about your location as long as work gets done, nobody can revoke your ability to earn. These produce same result - money in your account that qualifies for visa - but one requires asking permission and other requires taking control. Most people default to job search because it’s familiar framework. You apply, they decide, you wait. Employee mindset where someone else is responsible for providing income and you’re responsible for showing up and doing what they tell you. But that mindset creates dependency on employer’s willingness to accommodate international arrangement. And most employers aren’t willing. So you’re stuck in loop of applying to jobs that explicitly prohibit international work, getting rejected, applying to more jobs, repeat. Meanwhile income generation - getting paid by clients for services - has zero geographic restrictions. Clients don’t care where you are. They care that deliverables happen. Your location is irrelevant to transaction. The skills you’re trying to get hired to use are skills you can bill clients for directly. Customer service, writing, bookkeeping, social media management, virtual assistance, project coordination - all services businesses already pay freelancers to do. You’re not less qualified to do the work as freelancer than as employee. You’re just cutting out middleman who bills $150/hour for your work while paying you $40/hour and keeping the difference. Going direct to clients means you keep all of it. Which means you need fewer clients to hit income threshold that qualifies for visas. Which means faster path to relocation. This is why some people relocate within months while others spend years “trying” to move abroad. Not because some people got lucky with remote job. Because some people stopped waiting for job and started generating income. Are you waiting for remote job or building remote income? 🆘🇺🇸
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Saying that you can't find a job that will allow you to work abroad is the same thing as saying that you can't move until you get permission to move. But you don't need permission. You're just conflating the idea of income and a job. You think that in order to have money, because obviously you need money to live a life abroad, that you need to have a job. But you don't. You need income, which can come from yourself. So what I try to get people to do is shift their perspective from this trying to get a job situation, because that is all permission based. That is all waiting for the employer to bestow the job upon you. But you have skills that that employer is going to charge way more for than what they're going to pay you. So you can just circumvent that by going and getting those clients yourself and then being able to self-sponsor. In fact, if you were to have a corporate remote job where you're working for an employer, you have 78 visa options around the world. But if you become a self-employed person, you actually have 95 visa options around the world. So you have actually expanded your options if you go and work for yourself with remote income. So I definitely want people to stop being on this track that it has to be a remote job in order to move abroad. Absolutely does not. And you actually have more options if you can shift your thinking to creating your own remote income.
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