Entry level digital nomad jobs

[GoldenCagedBird]

I’ve posted an incarnation of this thread a few months back, but I feel I was far too specific and want to keep a more open mind.

SAHM for now to a husband who can, and does work anywhere. Since I gave up my job, life has been a constant holiday. Based in the uk but we travel to our second home in a European country frequently, and also visit friends with similarly flexible schedules and set ups.

This is great. Usually on a beach. Want to go back to work in a couple of years but seriously reluctant to give this up.

background in teaching ( 9 years) with a mid level leadership role in subject development and year group leadership. Social sciences undergrad and MSc. PGCE. Good MS office and Wordpress skills. Creative. I love problem solving.

rather swallow my thumbs than be a classroom teacher again, where ever If is. Also not very remote.

i think I might like to teach English to adults but I don’t know how to get set up.

really don’t want to do the virtual PA thing as I do a lot of that for my husband already.

won’t be having any more children so mat leave and benefits don’t really matter.

I can afford to retrain and up-skill thankfully.

"Digital nomad" and "entry level" aren't really compatible. You get to be a digital nomad by having valued, specialist skills that are hard to get, and thus people are willing to pay for you wherever you are.

You could go self-employed in a digital piecework field like graphic design or copywriting, but you'd better not be in it for the money because the principal thing you'd have going for you is cheapness so it'd pay very little.

If you would rather swallow your thumbs than be a classroom teacher, do not consider retraining, or taking up, teaching english to adults. It is a very similar kettle of fish, and everything that annoys you about teaching is there, with some extra annoyances thrown in.

I was thinking copywriting but AI will kill this in the next 2 years

there will obviously room for skilled copywriters to add voice and oversee, but I don’t think it’s a smart move to go into it now

same for graphic design tbh, though that will take a bit longer.

I was hoping less parents would shout at me about lost water bottles and completely warranted consequences

Money isn’t really important tbh, it would be more of something to do whilst my daughter is at school. I honestly can be flexible but it just needs to work with my life. Thanks for replying and any other ideas appreciated

What about online tutoring. Like Outschool or an online virtual school?

Work is activity we engage with in exchange for money.
If money is not important, then why not fill your time with things you enjoy. You are allowed. If you do not nee to work. Do not work!

Study, volunteer, learn new skills.

In your shoes I would be setting up a pottery studio in my garden and volunteering at my local refugee center.

I would like a salary as we can just save it. I meant that the amount of salary isn’t hugely important. I’m happy with an entry level or junior salary.

I get your sentiment but I can’t commit to volunteering, which is why I’m looking for remote work. Our family schedule is pretty nomadic. You can’t just rock up to refugee centres and help out without DBS checks-or-equivalence, and you must commit to rotas and longer term placements.

What about setting yourself up doing online mentoring to newly qualified teachers?

Is your daughter in day school or boarding?

Unless boarding, am I to assume that your nomadic lifestyle is during school holidays, with stability during term time?

In which case - its a term time only job you want. What about non-teaching school based roles? Safeguarding, Attendance, HR, Marketing, Careers advisor, Heads PA, admin, operations manager.

She’s currently a baby and not in school yet. which is why I want something remote so we can continue our lifestyle. I’m looking ahead to the next 1-2 years as there may be retraining that I need to do.

i want to go back to work when she is in school, but still want to be flexible and not have to rely on booking annual leave or having to be on site on certain days.

once she is in school- I will obviously need stability and we will stay put term-time, but I want to be able to travel in the school holidays.

Don’t see universities being interested in this without school visits involved as that’s where they are short on man power.

and schools can just make the muggins on UPS do this after hours rather than paying for an external service.

Employers really really don't want to hire "digital nomads" as employees because it exposes them to enormous and complicated tax liability. Self-employment is probably your only real option to bring in money this way.

In my theoretical model you’d get the individual to pay, not the training provider.

But thinking about it, NQTs are on the square root of fuck-all so there might not be a market there.

Micro-niching is the way. How about targeting yourself at teachers who are stepping into a leadership role for the first time? New to the SLT or similar. These people would be on a decent salary, so might have the disposable income to spend £x/hr on a mentor.

Just an idea.