Working on the road
I repeatedly read of people working on the internet while traveling and have not been able to figure out what they could be doing to make money on the internet while traveling?
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I have no doubt that people in many occupations work from RVs. You can even be paid via PayPal.
I edited various Caribbean boating-related magazines and other publications for years. Our work evolved in the early 2000s until the editorial end was done entirely online. The publisher was (still is) a great guy who left the editorial entirely in my hands to manage while he supervised ad sales.
For my main job, the monthly finished product was roughly a 100-page color magazine the size of Time or Newsweek, distributed throughout the Caribbean.
I never met most of the design staff nor 95% of my writer-photographers in person, and some of them lived aboard sailboats. They pitched ideas and emailed articles and photo files to me. I organized the whole enchilada every month and uploaded all the edited pieces to a password-protected FTP site (File Transfer Protocol) for the designers to download.
The designers did their page work, inserted the ads, and I downloaded their proof files to correct. They uploaded the final files to printers - one was in Miami.
I just needed a laptop and Internet connection periodically, and worked from odd places all over the world, including a ship in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. So an RV is a piece of cake. I didn't need a printer.
I eventually retired from full time editing - obviously work is work even when you control your schedule and workflow. I still write travel articles occasionally, and easily keep in touch with my editor via a 4G or wifi connected iPad as needed. I've worked for her for four years and we've never met in person.
I edited various Caribbean boating-related magazines and other publications for years. Our work evolved in the early 2000s until the editorial end was done entirely online. The publisher was (still is) a great guy who left the editorial entirely in my hands to manage while he supervised ad sales.
For my main job, the monthly finished product was roughly a 100-page color magazine the size of Time or Newsweek, distributed throughout the Caribbean.
I never met most of the design staff nor 95% of my writer-photographers in person, and some of them lived aboard sailboats. They pitched ideas and emailed articles and photo files to me. I organized the whole enchilada every month and uploaded all the edited pieces to a password-protected FTP site (File Transfer Protocol) for the designers to download.
The designers did their page work, inserted the ads, and I downloaded their proof files to correct. They uploaded the final files to printers - one was in Miami.
I just needed a laptop and Internet connection periodically, and worked from odd places all over the world, including a ship in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. So an RV is a piece of cake. I didn't need a printer.
I eventually retired from full time editing - obviously work is work even when you control your schedule and workflow. I still write travel articles occasionally, and easily keep in touch with my editor via a 4G or wifi connected iPad as needed. I've worked for her for four years and we've never met in person.
