How to Earn Money While Traveling - Seven Ideas to Keep You on the Road

Although it's quite popular in Europe and Down Under, it's a dream many Americans don't pursue: Backpacking the world for months or years at a time. Perhaps it's because we've been taught that you go to school and then get a employ so you can buy things. What if we take a fortuity for a while from our fast-paced lives and voracious consumer appetites and live with only what we can carry on our backs?

That's what my sister and I did. We sold everything, bought airfare, traveler's checks, and wandered around the world for a year and a half. Of course, we blew finished our money faster than we had expected. Wanting to stay on the road for as long as possible, we came up with some ideas on how to make money while traveling.

1. Submit your photographs to have photography websites. You're attractive photos anyway of everyone and everything you see. Why not upload them to several of the major have photography websites and earn money? They pay you on consignment for apiece photo someone purchases for reuse in books, brochures, websites, etc.

2. Become a seasonal production picker. These jobs don't pay rattling well, and it's hard labor but at least you're outdoors with another travelers getting in shape and earning money. The jobs are commonly plentiful, depending on the season.

3. Become a farm hand or do odd jobs. Such jobs are commonly found just by articulate of mouth or calling ranches. Sometimes you can encounter jobs in a local newspaper, but commonly you need to ask around most temporary work in some locale you happen to be in.

4. Teach English. Like production picking, these jobs are plentiful but do not pay rattling well. But sometimes they provide living accommodations and it's a great artefact to get to know the local culture and make friends.

5. Become a worker travel writer. Write articles and accede them to magazines. If accepted, you will commonly be paid per word. You can also write articles and accede them for free to article marketing websites. You're allowed to put a unification in the resource box at the modify of the article to your individualized website (see #6 below.) This helps drive traffic to your website. These articles spread virally finished the Internet and are reprinted in blogs, ezines, and another places.

6. Design a website with affiliate programs. A great artefact to stay in touch with friends, family, and new friends you make while traveling is to set up a travelogue website where you display photos and stories most your travels. On much a website, you can get a little entrepreneurial. If you know that most of your friends like to shop at a certain online bookstore, for example, then clew up for that bookstore's affiliate program. It's fairly easy to do as long as you have a website building program that allows you to cut and paste an html link. After you clew up for an affiliate program, just cut and paste their affiliate unification or banner into your website on a \"resources\" or \"links\" page. Then ask all your friends and family to click on that unification the next instance they wish to purchase something from that online store. You will get paid money apiece instance someone clicks on that unification and purchases something, and it won't cost your friends and family anything extra. There are all kinds of products you can sell on your website. Generally, the more expensive the item - much as seminars, CD programs, or services - the more money you will earn.

7. Become a WWOOFer. It's an international program that stands for World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms. You choose an organic family farm you'd like to visit, make arrangements with the family, work all day, and, in return, you get free meals and lodging for apiece day you work. It's a wonderful artefact to learn most organic farming and the local culture.

The key is to be open and creative. Making the instance to step out of your normal life tends to boost creativity and frees the spirit. You are only limited by your work visa and your imagination. Maybe patron a brainstorming happy hour at a youth hostel to get some support from your fellow travelers. Other backpackers are a riches of information. During your travels, remember the words of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Though we travel the world over to encounter the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we encounter it not.

By Katie B. Marsh