While teaching English, vacationing, traveling or even studying abroad, you can also pick up some steady money. How? By doing whatever it is you like to do. Here are some of my suggestions on this.
Do What You Like to Do
Now me, I like fishing. Fresh water, salt water, whatever and where ever I can. During the course of a trip from a few days to several weeks, you can be sure I'll work in some time on the water if at all possible. Whenever I do, I document, photograph, videotape and record every thing I can. (see photo above) I then write it up and sell photos, writing, recordings and combinations of any of these. Short articles with photos or video clips of form a few seconds to two or three minutes are even posted to my blog on fishing.
Check some of my blog posts out for yourself at: http://whittlewadeandhook.blogspot.com/
Who then become my vacation "fishing trip" customers? Well for starters:
o online fishing sites
o fishing and outdoor recreation blogs and websites
o sporting goods suppliers
o vacation sites
o tourism sites
o hotel and resort sites for the region
o travel sites
o travel agencies
o newspapers
o stock photo agencies and websites
o regional magazines
o ethnic magazines
o online or print magazine editors
These are just to name a few of the multiple possibilities
What to Offer
What kinds of "products" then can you offer to prospective clients or customers? Well what I offer to the various potential customers is a variety of individual pieces and combination packages including:
o individual articles and articles with sidebar information and graphics or photos
o individual photos or groups of related photos and videos
o interviews with guides and foreign locale service professionals
What Turns You On
The point simply is that whatever you most enjoy doing, have at it abroad but go the extra mile so to speak and document, record, film or photograph as much of it as you can. While you're "on location" try to get everything that you can. Even if you don't know or aren't exactly sure how you can use it - get it anyway. Often you'll find that having the material in whatever form it may be in, is better more useful and profitable than cursing yourself for not "getting it" while you were there. It's not too tall a task to find a use for that extra material once you're back home from foreign soil.
So if you like nature, visit the flower gardens, the zoo or vivarium. Are you a sports fan? Then see some local games or matches, get some local opinions and explanations and a few short video clips. How about the food? Well, there's a wide open venue for you. If you're up for the exotic, try some of the local "delicacies". Photograph them before "trying them out" if possible. Get a recipe or some history behind local culinary fare. Pick up a local recipe book to help with facts and background if you need to. Ask for a quick cooking demo or try a day at a local cooking school perhaps. If you teach English (or study) abroad, how about interviewing students, teachers, co-workers, neighbors and the like for opinions on whatever subject interests you and them?
If much of what you run across is in a foreign language, all the better. You can always form a series of still photos into a screen-capture type video. With video, you can use Windows Movie Maker or Camtasia to overdub the sound track into English when you get back home. So whatever it is you can almost always do what you like and make money abroad.
Larry M. Lynch is an English language teaching and learning expert author and university professor in Cali, Colombia. Now YOU too can live your dreams in paradise, find romance, high adventure and get paid while travelling for free. For more information on the lucrative, fascinating field of teaching English as a Foreign Language, get your copy of his no-cost, full multi-media, hypertext-linked pdf ebook, "If You Want to Teach English Abroad, Here's What You Need to Know" by sending an e-mail to lynchlarrym@gmail.com with "free ELT Ebook" in the subject line. Need professional, original content for your blog, newsletter, e-zine or website? Want more information, have a comment or special request? Contact the author by e-mail or at: http://bettereflteacher.blogspot.com/
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