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Transition Your 9 to 5 Job to a Work Anytime & Anywhere Job

The hardest part of becoming a location independent professional is finding or establishing a source of income that can be earned remotely. For those with day jobs, the best path may be to transition your existing job to a telecommuting position.Transitioning to a remote workplace can be done with varying degrees of success, depending on [...]

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Transition Your 9 to 5 Job to a Work Anytime & Anywhere Job

The hardest part of becoming a location independent professional is finding or establishing a source of income that can be earned remotely. For those with day jobs, the best path may be to transition your existing job to a telecommuting position.Transitioning to a remote workplace can be done with varying degrees of success, depending on [...]

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See Spot Live: The Dog Lovers’ Guide to Global Volunteer Work

Pet owners and world travelers, these two life categories would appear to be mutually exclusive.  It is a cruel twist of fate that those of us who love our animals are also so inexplicably drawn to explore the world more fully. Leaving your children behind, no matter how many legs they have, is never easy. [...]

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Traveling on a Diet (WHy Bread and Beer is tough to work with!)

Before you get gooey-eyed, I haven’t actually given up bread altogether. But mostly I have, thanks in large part to a doctor’s diagnosis last summer. But I’m getting ahead of myself. I should probably start by saying how much I love food. I mean, not to a dangerous degree, but definitely to an adventurous degree. [...]

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Why Discounting Won’t Work to Survive this Recession

The tourism industry has often boasted of its resilience and ability to rebound after drops in demand caused by such negative factors as 9/11, SARS or natural disasters. The adaptive response most frequently deployed is generic discounting. But does this serve the individual business or the tourism community well and will it work this time?  [...]

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