Hi all,

I’m an American living in Brazil. I work in AI at a Brazilian firm on a Brazilian contract.

So here’s the thing: Before I accepted this current work contract it was a real struggle for me. I was thinking to myself, “Hey, wouldn’t it be great if I was earning in US Dollars down here, that would surely give me an advantage.” I tried applying for US jobs but there simply not a lot of firms that want to hire an employee living in Brazil. I tried following a bunch of digital nomads on Instagram and they keep talking about how easy it is to make passive income digital marketing or on PInterest, or some other site, I just can’t understand how I could get involved with something like that. I tried freelancing on Upwork in my area and couldn’t find many opportunities. I tried looking on remoteok and other digital nomad sites where programmers could get hired. There were barely any postings that went to AI. And most of them went to very senior front end developers with LOTS of years if experience. Finally I applied to local jobs down here and got an offer.

Which brings me to my question, how exactly do you guys make money as digital nomads? It seems like everyone but me has a get rich quick scheme going on or some digitial marketing thing and I just can’t get it. Are people lying and just getting some money on the side from their parents or something?

  • DiscombobulatedBag56@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Point is you like where you live but you would also like to get a foreign income. So, my question is if you have something to bring to a company, I guess you are pretty well positioned to register an LLC, s-corp in the US. And start approaching companies with what you do. Then sell your business services without the need to be physically in the US, or anywhere as you demand that in your b2b agreement.

    That**,** my friend**,** is called the nomad way. Now**,** regarding the social media narrative about nomads, it’s a well diversity universe of people selling digital stuff, whether it is a service, products, or knowledge.

    When I mean products, it could be both digital assets like print on demand products, or even real products that might be like Amazon FBA type. Which means that each of these things by itself isn’t anything close to ponzi schemes… that’s too naive… but contrary, it requires other skills that you seem to have not developed them yet.