If you want to be a digital nomad, here are nine legit places to explore for work from anywhere jobs!
One of the biggest barriers to travel for most folks is that it’s simply too hard to break away from their place of employment.
The good news is that if you’re one of those dreamers silently wishing for a life with more opportunities for adventure or even just more flexibility to break out of your daily routine, the recent rise in remote work positions has opened up a whole new world for digital nomads — a fancy term for workers who perform their jobs from anywhere from in the world.
Perhaps you’re looking for a chance to spend some well-deserved time strolling around Europe, or maybe you’re just tired of fighting for PTO to spend time with your family members in other time zones. Whatever your reason for wanting off the hamster wheel, here’s a list of the best work opportunities for job seekers who are tired of the restrictions and ready to live life on their own terms. All of these remote jobs will let you work from anywhere you choose.
Remote Tutoring Opportunities
Online tutoring is one of those work from anywhere jobs where there’s an opportunity for just about everyone.
Employees who sign up with a tutoring-focused internet company use remote technology to connect with their students. The ability to set up meetings when you’re available or even reschedule them if something comes up makes these remote roles a good fit for anyone looking for an alternative schedule.
Given the high demand for online tutors, many remote tutoring companies have plenty of open jobs and an easy hiring process.
1. Studypool
Studypool is always on the lookout for tutors in everything from math to computers. Rather than one-on-one tutoring sessions, tutors have the opportunity to answer questions for individual students, collaborating with them through the learning process.
Studypool’s highest earner list is posted on the website and looks promising for folks in the market for work-from-anywhere roles with full-time job potential. According to Studypool, the top three earning tutors brought in a salary of between $60,803 and $75,470.
2. Cambly
Tutoring English online to international students is an excellent, fully remote job for Americans with strong native English-speaking skills. Cambly makes it even easier to get started in the world of remote work gigs by requiring no traditional college education for their tutor workforce.
Educational Content Creation and Teaching
If you love the idea of working in education with zero location restrictions but aren’t interested in remote tutoring, working with a more comprehensive online education company to create digital content or teach could be your best bet.
Many of these companies offer a wide range of education-focused job titles with no location requirement, and a few even have full-time jobs for those in the market. Professionals with writing and education backgrounds can find some pretty exciting opportunities designing curricula in a wide range of categories.
3. FluentU
For educators who love the idea of work from home jobs but don’t want to give up the opportunity to connect with students, FluentU offers a chance to work both in a classroom setting and one-on-one with students. This company uses a language immersion program to create multilingual content using an entirely remote team.
According to the job description for the online English teacher opportunity, FluentU offers full-time or part-time job opportunities starting at around 15 hours per week. Teachers use real-world video content and language-specific blogs to promote the company’s mission of helping students pick up a language in an immersive environment similar to the one they might experience when traveling.
4. Study.com
Study.com is something of an innovator in education, with a wide variety of services for their subscribers, including adult education, test prep, tutoring, and transferable credit, just to name a few. They also tend to have a fairly steady volume of work-from-anywhere job listings, including curriculum design, lesson plan development, content review and editing, homework help, research, and more.
Tech Startup Opportunities
Many new companies in the tech industry are either completely or nearly completely staffed by teams of remote workers — and many of those positions are flexible jobs for full-time workers. Whether it’s, a digital app company or a product development team focused on delivering customizable tech solutions, getting in on a growing company before it blows up could lead to some pretty hefty opportunities down the road.
5. Hubstaff
Hubstaff is a cloud-based productivity company that helps employers with project management and time tracking. They’re also a completely remote company that’s currently building their sales team in the United States. Unlike many sales positions, Hubstaff’s account executives don’t have to deal with cold calling since this is an inbound call position.
6. Toggl
Toggl is another tech startup focused on productivity through time-tracking tools. The company has been fully remote since 2014 and offers a number of perks for their employees, including flexible paid time off, paid parental leave, paid sabbaticals, a company laptop, a coworking and internet allowance, and even a home office setup budget to help mitigate an employee’s overall costs out of pocket. Employees also enjoy competitive pay and opportunities to meet up in person.
7. Automattic
Automattic is the parent company behind WordPress, Tumblr, and a number of other platforms focused on things like digital marketing, journaling, newsletter creation, and podcasts, just to name a few. And they’re constantly hiring new remote workers.
As a well-established tech industry company, Automattic offers its full-time employees stability on top of a long list of perks. Professional development and career coaching opportunities are baked into the company’s culture. So is a sense of work-life balance that’s hard to find at most in-office jobs. The company offers an open vacation policy that encourages employees to take at least 25 days off from work each year and a paid three-month sabbatical every five years. Pay is reviewed every 12 to 18 months.
More Flexible Job Opportunities
Here are two more great places to pick up work from anywhere jobs!
8. Upwork
If you prefer gigs to full-time work, you’re not alone. A lot of digital nomads prefer picking up work as independent contractors because it allows them the freedom to work when they want to without a lot of the corporate trappings that many remote workers are looking to get away from.
Upwork is a platform that allows freelancers to find clients looking for certain types of projects: think logo creation, blog posts, web content, digital editing, and tons more. Creating an account is easy, and Upwork can be a fantastic place for freelancers to build out their professional portfolios.
9. FlexJobs
Whereas Upwork is focused on freelancer work, FlexJobs connects job hunters with remote or hybrid full-time or part-time jobs based on their professional skills and experience. This could be anything from a bilingual customer service representative to a content creator.
Your Work-Life Balance Awaits
It’s easy to feel like life is truly passing you by when you’re chained to the nine-to-five of an onsite job. But as someone who has made that transition and will never look back, I know firsthand how transformative it can be to kiss that grind goodbye for good.
Every day you work on your own terms is a gift to yourself — so what are you waiting for?