1. Expat to another country. prefer tropical countries.
2. Teach English, French etc etc
3. Freelance translator
4. Help business who does business with western country to understand the business culture.
5. Start an online business. Taking what you love to new level.
Please share your ideas
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I'm thinking about like, a crowdfunded online webcomic of sorts, where I would post my updates for free but if people want it faster they donate to reach the goal for each page, so if I have 20 readers donate 2.50 I'd reach my 50 dollar goal and spend time cranking out another page asap. It would be nice if I could do that with educational vegan literature as well. I currently make 20 dollars a day just doing online categorizing sooo.
Health Coach, IIn school was my answer and way out, plus entrepreneur skills , online cavy and youre out of the slavery, making wold a better damn place
How's your goal coming?
I took the plunge and started teaching English 8 years ago... since then I've seen some 22 different countries and funded the entire thing AND managed to save some money so that I can DO THE FINAL STEP and completely DROP OUT OF THE RAT RACE! :D
I'm almost there!!!!
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Yeah, well, that didn't happen... I will get there... I'm paying off debt using the Dave Ramsey total money makeover... I kicked my financially draining hubby out... I'm currently trying to get fit and in shape so that I can get a second job to help snowball my debt payments. Patience and meditation and exercise and fruit and focus.. CT. :-) congrats on the teaching gig :-)
For me it is working as freelance translator. I earn more, I have more free time, less stress, more freedom :D It is wonderful and so much better thant working in a small company as my last job or all the previous occupations. The worst of it was working in a corporate company (outsourcing).
I could work more and earn more but whats the point? :D
I work also as yoga teacher but this is sort of part-time occupation. And I do it not for living but for fun and to give the opportunity of this powerful and life-changing experience to others.
I think that teaching yoga gives you a lot of freedom but one need to have courage to live this way so for now I stick to my computer ;)
I live in Thailand. I'd really rather not teach English! Ughh. Don't know if a corporate job would be worse or work as a full time teacher.
What I've been very very interested in lately is starting up a Zen center here in Thailand. The dream goes something like this:
There would be a teacher in residence or someone who could come often and give Dhamma Talks and lead retreats. A monk would be good, but wouldn't have to be a monk. I'd love to have teachers of various spiritual traditions and various flavors within the various traditions come to offer teachings and lead practices.
There'd be classes that would offer something really beneficial to people's lives. So they could come learn yoga or tai chi or journal writing or ... hmmm... maybe raw foods theories and diets as well!. There would be a small organic garden and orchard as part of the center that would be a food source, as well as a place to learn organic gardening. Masanobu Fukuoka, with his book One Straw Revolution, is a hero of mine. If they could come to learn some sort of job skill that would be of benefit to themselves as well as others in society, that would be great. More raw foodies spreading the raw foodie thing! I'm not so sure the world needs more raw junk food.
I'd want to make everything available to Thais for sure, but also to foreigners. The language logistics could get cumbersome.
Zen is pretty unknown here in Thailand, but interest seems to be growing. I like Buddhism a lot but am really jazzed with the non-dual teachings.
A lot of Thais are really not on very solid financial ground. So, in part for this reason, I'd really want to charge little or nothing. Maybe do mostly everything on a donation basis.
This is all that comes to mind right away that I've dreamt of.
At the moment, I'm living with a great Buddhist group that has some awesome ideas and practices them. We're all vegetarian, many of us are vegan. I'm the only one that I know of who eats mostly raw. I live at an organic farm where we supply fruits and vegetables. It's a young farm so we haven't gotten that much fruit yet, so most of my fruit still comes from a market and from the local village organic lady. In a couple of years though this place will be a paradise. In five or ten years .... We've already got some papayas and guavas, and there will be some bananas pretty soon.
But for various reasons I'm tired of the group, and have become interested in this dream of mine. But in addition to the farm work, I also teach at the temple's boarding school and college. I have committed to teaching until the end of the school year, which will end sometime around March or April 2013. I haven't made the firm decision to leave the group, but that's the way I've been feeling lately. I've been getting wonderful farming experience with them, and other wonderful things as well.
I lived with the group from 2000 to 2004, and then decided to return a year ago. A year on and I'm much more clear now on what I'd really like to do in life. It's taken me 48 years to find what I'd like to do with my life, but, you might say better late than never.
I decided years ago that I didn't want a job. My sister-in-law said she didn't know what that meant, but that it sounded pretty scary and that she hoped she never had one either! Well, over the years I've done some jobs that I didn't really like, but I'm glad that I've at least avoided a career that I don't like. I busted my butt in Korea for 2.5 years teaching English. Busting my butt mostly by hating it! Had I just done what I needed to do, without the burning disgust of it all, it would'a been much easier. I did manage to save up a good chunk of money, and that was one reason for going to Korea to teach. Money saved, I have been free to not do things I don't want to do, just for the money. I still have money, but the group I live with has no money exchange. We all work for free, and our basic needs are met, for free. Being the only one in the group eating so much fruit, and since I have money, and since it's convenient enough for me to buy fruit, I have bought most of the fruit I've eaten over the past 12 months.
Many people in the group have a negative view of making money. The teaching goes that, to make money is a sin. I am pretty sure I've got that right. I understand Thai language pretty well, and think I've got this teaching point right. I don't see making money as a sin, and don't mind it myself, I just don't want to be a slave to it. To not be a slave to anything (mostly meaning your own desires!) is a big Big Big part of the group's teaching.
So ... there you have my dream, and quite a bit more. -Troy
creating educational products to others, sad eaters, meat eaters, etc.
Now, you eat meat.
Indigo & Victoria... so glad to hear of other Raw Vegan Awakening nurses... good luck to both of u as well-- It sure is hard to keep my mouth shut at work... I manage to slip the raw truth in occasionally to pt's-- but mostly one can almost see the big medical HOOK in the side of their mouth- they are just a part of the pill popping symptom treating screwed up medical system--- ok- done venting.
1- this group :-)
2- The Richest man in Babylon... trying save 20-30% vs. 10%
3- Tiny house youtube video (I've downsized to smaller house but still have way too much stuff)
4- flylady.net (to maintain some decency of my filthy/cluttered home w/ 2 cats/daughter & hubby)
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