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Has anyone else out there done this - or known someone who has - worked for a U.S. employer while living in another country where they had to work a 40-hr-week schedule? Any advice/resources you would recommend are greatly appreciated.

I know Tim Ferriss's scripts, etc and I feel I can sell it to my boss. No aspect of my job requires me to be there physically - it's all phone, emails, web.

I know traveling without the burden of working every day is the ideal, but for a host reasons I won't bore you with that is not an option for me.

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http://www.flexjobs.com/

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Thanks man - I'll look into that to pick up additional work if it becomes necessary....but I already have a job - the goal is long term travel without career interruption. Like won't being in internet cafes all day long get expensive? Trying to figure out logistics/properly plan, since my agenda is different from the guy with 30K socked up and time to kill, or the auto-generating income muse

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(04-20-2011 11:25 PM)poledaddy Wrote:  Has anyone else out there done this - or known someone who has - worked for a U.S. employer while living in another country where they had to work a 40-hr-week schedule?

I have done this - in fact I have never worked in the office since I moved to US. It is much easier to do if you find an employer in a different country who is comfortable with you working for them remotely. Then it doesn't really matter for them which country you're in. It is not an easy job to find, and you'll face some issues you'd never face with an US-based employer, but totally possible if you have some advanced skills, and have a proved track record. This, of course, assumes your job could be technically done remotely.

Another option is to do some contract work with a lot of clients somewhere, and build the reputation. Then some of them would be comfortable to hire you and not care where you are located.

PS. Tim Ferris script looks completely useless to me. The only few people who would be able to actually execute it (probably less than .001% of population) won't need it anyway.

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i work, have worked and hired people to work remotely since mid-90s

check out http://www.nunomad.com .... it's a great resource for working nomads