A couple of weeks ago we published the post "How Can I Afford to Travel? ", in which we revealed how we, and 18 other top travel bloggers, can afford to travel.
Our answer was basically threefold:
Teaching English
I taught English for about a year online. I am actually still pretty surprised by how well this one worked out (considering I have no English qualifications other than GCSE English lit and lang and the fact that I am English).
I advertised (on Fiverr) that a native English speaker was willing to have one-on-one conversations with people wanting to learn English. So many people were interested!
I enjoyed it at first, it was certainly good for my wanderlust as I had students from Brazil, Spain, Poland, Malaysia, Nepal, India, Indonesia, Vietnam, China.
However, after a while, it lost its appeal. Although it's mainly chatting about travel, it's still hard work and there's a horrible pressure that comes with it - why aren't they fluent already? I've never wanted to be a teacher, so what's the point of being one?
In the end I decided it was best to focus on my real passion (travellingweasels. com) and use Translating (see below) as my 'back up income':
