Working on the road

[Bob_Vaughn]

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?

[RavensFan24]

Don't forget Internet Marketing. I'm sure that houses the biggest number of people that work remotely. Plus in a lot of cases you are your own boss, so the odds of getting fired are pretty low.

[broark01]

atreis wrote:

JAXFL wrote:
Here are a few I have heard of..

Telemarketing
Medical Billing
Incoming call center
Computer Programing
Traveling Nurse
Insurance Adjuster

Maybe someone will add to the list.

"Computer Programmer" is my field. While work-from-home jobs do exist, they are very rare, pay substantially less, and are the easiest to let go when the axe man comes. The exception is the odd person that has been with the company for many years, is VERY highly valued, and the employer will put up with it to retain the person. Again, rare.

Insurance Adjuster - while true, they generally don't have much choice in where they go. They're as likely to end up in the upper midwest in winter as anywhere else.

Don't know about the others...

Project Managers for large corporations that manage global teams do it over the internet and many work from home, KOA, or wherever a wireless, wired, or great cellular data service is available.

Consultants - Same as above. Most teams today are virtual so being at a corporate office really doesn't do much to facilitate the interaction between the leads and the offshore developers.

[atreis]

JAXFL wrote:
Here are a few I have heard of..

Telemarketing
Medical Billing
Incoming call center
Computer Programing
Traveling Nurse
Insurance Adjuster

Maybe someone will add to the list.

"Computer Programmer" is my field. While work-from-home jobs do exist, they are very rare, pay substantially less, and are the easiest to let go when the axe man comes. The exception is the odd person that has been with the company for many years, is VERY highly valued, and the employer will put up with it to retain the person. Again, rare.

Insurance Adjuster - while true, they generally don't have much choice in where they go. They're as likely to end up in the upper midwest in winter as anywhere else.

Don't know about the others...

[RGar974417]

Sex hot line?

[rockhillmanor]

Yes it is easy to sell products while on the road. More so now with how far the ease of online banking has come.

Sell Either directly online or following actuall trade/craft shows in your RV and selling in person.

Online there are many options of having them shipped for you/receipt of payment.

And when it comes to money management paypal is 'not' the only way.

1. Direct deposit into your account for salaries.
2. Checks scanned on your printer and deposited into your account.
3. Plug in for smart phones that takes a credit card purchase.
4. Use your debit card to access bank account funds.

I've been on the road full-timing and still use my bank back up north. I can deposit checks, receive money and spend it right from the comfortable confines of my MH!

I have not seen the inside of my bank in the last 8 years!!:C

[carl2591]

there is a pretty interesting article in this month's Fortune mag. The headline is how business is and will change in the next century.

think about this..

Uber is one of the largest "taxicab" company with NO cars it owns.

Air BnB is one of the largest hotel, condo etc rental business and owns no property.

business will becoming more and more frictionless.. employees will become more frictionless as well.. many will work at remote locations and more likely be contractors vs employees in most cases..

I did a quick skim and see the need to revisit and reread this thing..

"RV" workers may be the norm in the future..

[RVcircus]

Making money by blogging is no easy task if you're tryig to support yourself on this income. I've made $0 with our blog (I also haven't tried to monetize it) and have racked up 27 cents on YouTube after putting in about 20 hours there this month...lol. It's possible to make money using both platforms, but it's a lot of work and you need to be dedicated. I personally do ours because I like it and can easily look back to see how far we've come and share with family & friends.

rjxj wrote:
I believe some are not doing "work" as we may think of it but are developing blogs and want you to click on them. They get advertisers to place adds when they see a lot of clicks. It seems there are a good number of people who want to live the rv lifestyle by developing a blogs.

[RVcircus]

A lot of jobs can now be done remotely. My last position was very flexible as far as location goes and I worked remotely much of the time and could have been 100% remote if I wanted to be. Most has to do with the employer and their policies. I now do the same work and have the ability to work remotely when needed, but I'm expectect to be in the office. The only thing preventing me from working remotely is this policy as there's nothing I can't do from anywhere with an Internet connection.

[4X4Dodger]

Read "The World is Flat" by Thomas Freidman.

In this book he outlines the ten things that have "flattened" the earth. In other words made many things much easier and leveled a lot of playing fields.

One of the big issues that is tackled in his book is how we got to where we are today so that many many people can now work from anywhere.

A couple of good examples; Companies in the US can send their taxes via the internet to companies in India where tax specialists prepare the return.

MRI results are often shipped off to India to be consulted on and diagnosed.

Call centers have been moved overseas to the Philippines and India.

Software development can be enhanced and worked overseas during nighttime here.

These are the big examples....but the same is true for small scale operations. Employees dont always need to be in an office anymore.


I highly recommend that book it's a great read and although it is now ten years old he was right about virtually everything he wrote about.

[tuna_fisher]

Woops

[ependydad]

I work a regular 9-5/salaried position (on a W2 and all) doing web development.

[down_home]

A lot of people, traveling or not locate a source and sell things on the Internet, often having it drop shipped and never touching the product.
Some sell things, from flea markets and an vast array, in small commerce.
After a few dollars get ready for paperwork and reporting taxes and so on.....and a whole lot more business than you may want to handle.

[joe_b_]

Some of the full timers I know use the internet for work and some don't. Anyone wanting to make sone money while living in their RV, need to take a hard look at what job skills they have to sell. I have friends that are RNs, live in a 40 ft class A and work the west coast as travelers, doing 3 month contracts with various hospitals. An Okie friend works as a traveling radiologist doing fill in work in OK, TX, MO and AR. Lives in his motorhome and works contract in those 4 states wher he keeps his medical licenses current. Works about 6 months out of the year. Some Colorado friends work out of their motorhome, she does medical billings for several medical clinics in Colorado. They don't know if she is at her home office or her RV office as everything is done over the Internet or by cell phone. Her husband makes music CDs for radio stations, Oldies but Goodies type. He has contracts to make X amount of hours per week for them to plug in and broadcast. He has duplicate equipment set up in the RV, the same as in his home office in Colorado. He is a retired radio DJ and former station manager.

Others work oil refinery turn arounds , so he and his family move 2 to 4 times a year to the next job. Met an employee at one of the Camping World stores here in Florida that works seasonal for them at different stores around the country. Michigan in the summer, Florida in the winter, etc.

A few years back in Jackson MS, I stopped for fuel at the Flying J and decided to spend the night in their parking lot. Noticed, not too far away from me, a large Class A parked. There were three young women with it, dressed like they were going clubbing There were 8 or 10 truck drivers gathered around talking to the women. Every once in a while one of the drivers and one of the women wound go inside. Suspected the women were financial advisors or psychic readers, as I know many truckers are interested in such.

Recently saw a Class A with a painted sign on the side, DOT Physicals to Go. Curiousness got the best of me so I went over to ask. Husband and wife team, doctor and nurse did on site DOT physicals for company drivers. Said they could do 20 or 25 a day. I doubt they worked over a week a month and just enjoyed life the rest of the time.

Bottom line is a person has to have something to sell. After retiring from my office job, I did some internet consulting with former clients in the fields of finance and also in security matters of interest to them. I had fiber optic cable at home and had AT&T and Verison hot spots for when we were on the road.

Down side was keeping clients in different time zones happy and having some time for myself, to do things like sleep, eat, shower, etc. LOL

[RavensFan24]

Yeah, that "guru" stuff is a bunch of BS. I connect marketers with advertisers to help sell their products online. It's all commission based, so if you refer a customer that purchases a product, you get paid a commission. It makes a lot more sense to advertise online in this manner because as an advertiser you only pay for when someone generates a lead for you. It works out for the publisher because they can get paid a lot more than they would via traditional methods for their traffic.

Selling knowledge/information is typically a hoax. No good marketer gives away real secrets. They'll give you just enough info to pique your interest and get you to pay them.

Nevertheless there are plenty of legit ways to make money online including blogging as someone else on this thread mentioned. Pick a topic you love that will interest others, provide good content, include reviews on products you love or have tried (many of which have affiliate programs which will pay you to generate sales) and grow from there.

The internet can provide freedom that people 20-50 years ago could only dream about. I remember when we got our first trailer, we were 27 and we traveled the country for a few months. People used to get mad at me because they had waited and saved their whole lives to be able to have an RV and the freedom associated. I like to enjoy life and figured if I could travel at 27, why wait til I was 72. It's a whole new world out there and I'm trying to take advantage for a better quality of life for my family.