Working Nomad

<img src=”http://www.workingnomad.com/south.jpg” alt=”Webby nr home” align=”right” />I have not put up any photos recently so I thought I would throw this one up taken last week in Southwold, on the East coast of England.

So I have just invested $100 of my hard earned money in a page on a website that is quite new and the idea not so new! <a href=”http://www.Milliondollarwiki.com”>Milliondollarwiki</a> is a another MillionDollarHomepage spin off but with a difference. You own a page (or wiki) where you can do what you want.

I have invested in this page: <a href=”http://www.Milliondollarwiki.com/English”>http://www.Milliondollarwiki.com/English</a> with a view of turning it into some sort of resource for the English language.

My challenge is to make this one of the most popular pages on the site! I started off a few hours ago at 422/422 but now I am up to 411/422 so the only way is up!

It may be the biggest waste of 50 United Kingdom pounds ever but you never know. Sometimes you have to speculate on these things.

One thing is for sure; the owner is going to make quite a bit out of this!

As if the idea of working when I want, where I want isn’t good enough, I also find myself very motivated be the idea of having complete creative control over everything I do and having an actual impact on the people who stumble across my sites. I have convinced myself that being a web publisher (that’s what I’m calling it these days) is quite possibly one of the best gigs going.

General advice says to build sites about topics you’re passionate about so creating content, in theory, should be something you enjoy doing – unless you totally hate writing. In order to get ideas for your new content you’ll have to participate in you area of expertise which will also be fun for you if you’ve got a passion for it. In my case, I have several travel websites. On one of them I have hostel reviews and encourage submissions from readers. If I’m earning plenty from my sites the potential is there to head off on trips aimed at writing more hostel reviews which would mean visiting hostels all over the world which would be a pretty damn good gig as far as I’m concerned.

I think the fact you’re working in a field you love, have total control over everything you do, have a positive impact on lots of people, and get to play at being an entrepreneur with very little risk all adds up to a really great way to earn a living!

Hi from Valdelavilla in the middle of nowhere! Yes they have Internet access here and I finally have some free time to write a little bit.

This experience teaching the Spaniards English has been fantastic so far! Highly recommend it to any native English speakers!

We are very remote in the mountains and bascially all we do it eat, drink red wine and talk English! The Spaniards are great and really getting to grips with the lingo and doing really well.

Well it is time for siesta. It is very tiring as well!

You know when you arrive in some place new and you take an immediate liking to it. Well I have certainly found that here in Madrid like I did in Melbourne earlier in the year.

I think that sometimes a really good first impression of a city can have the rose-tinted spectacles effect for the rest of what you uncover about a place. Similarly the opposite applies when you don´t like somewhere first off and you remain negative about it no matter what.

I think the more you travel the more you take places at face value and become more willing to give somewhere a second chance at the first impression. I never liked Bangkok when I first went there (who does!) but it did grow on me when I made the effort to discover more of it.

The village where I am going to be next week only has one creaky internet connection so you will not be hearing much from me for a few days. A break from the online world is just what I need to be honest

Hola! It has taken me since 5:30am this morning but I finally have made it to Madrid this evening. I can see why so many locals leave in July and August!

I have found an Internet cafe with a normal keyboard which makes my life (and yours) easier. Still there is much to do here so I won´t ramble on.

I am meeing my Pueblo Ingles group tomorrow night for an introductory meeting and no doubt booze up. The next morning we head off to English Ville for a week of idle chat.

On the earnings front I am having another good month but I logged into my Adsense account to see one of my main sites take a hit! Not from lack of traffic but potentially from smart-pricing. For those who are interested it means advertisers will pay you less for your traffic basically, which ain´t good!

I am hoping it is just temporary blip so I will have to wait and see what happens next week.