After teaching TEFL English for the last month and a half or so, I’ve come to one conclusion about living down here: if you want to do well for yourself, you need to either start your own business or secure a stable secondary income. Expats don’t have many job options to begin with, and those that are offered pay meager salaries. With that in mind, I’ve got a couple of ideas that have been bouncing around inside my head.
Freelancing
I’m working on this right now. As soon as some of my content is published on MiniHostels, I’m going to start shopping my services around. There are plenty of magazines and websites that I have in mind. The key here is to have some kind of written content to show them, and my articles that I’m writing right now can provide that. My immediate supervisor at work has a lot of experience with freelancing, and she’s going to help me in starting out. I’ll be sure to keep you guys updated.
Blogging
This blog originally began as a personal site I wrote for fun, but as more and more people have commented or emailed me saying they enjoy my writing, I’ve decided to really build the blog as a personal brand. There are lots of expat sites for people coming to Buenos Aires, but not many that speak to those coming fresh out of college. I think I can address that niche. I’ve already started putting together an informative e-book that I’ll be selling on here. It’ll be directed towards young expats and offer insight and how-to methodology for a lot of the problems they’ll need to solve before and after arriving. So stay tuned on the blog front, there’ll be more informative posts, but I’m not going to lose my quirky writing style any time soon.
Entrepreneurship
Over the last few weeks I’ve met a couple of young business owners down here, and it’s definitely the way to go if you’re the enterprising type. I’ve had a couple of ideas, but I think the one that would offer the best fit for my lifestyle and talents would be owning a youth hostel. I’m going to be interviewing local hostel owners for work anyways, so I’ll be sure to pick their brains once that gets going. I’ve checked out a lot of how-to sites and forums that offer advice on how to start and run a hostel, and I’m going to keep fleshing out a business plan over the next couple of months. I think it’s something that I would really enjoy and could potentially do very well at.
Wrap-Up
What about some of you other Buenos Aires expats that have been reading my site? Any advice or insight about these ideas? I know at least some of you have started your own businesses down here!
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if youve picked up enough castellano, Have you tried translating on excursions for tour guides who dont speak english? You might have to live in a small town, different more tranquil lifestyle.. im in puerto madryn, whale town, have you been here yet. and its supposed to be busy tourist season now, altho been a bit slower this year.. i can give you more details in email if youre interested. chau!
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Hey!. Your post cing, Blogging, and Entrepreneurship | Expedition Evan is very interesting for me. My written English is not so good so I write in German: “Lieber den Spatz in der Hand, als die Taube auf dem Dach.” Yours sincerely Thursday Evan
Thanks TK, but I’m way ahead of you on that one. I read his book about 6 months ago and it’s sitting on my nightstand right by my copy of Vagabonding. I subscribe to his blog and check out his travel advice pretty often, so I know he’s a good resource. When you coming to visit?
-Evan
hey evan. after reading your most recent blog entry i would like to direct you to http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/. it is the blog of tim ferriss, writer of NY Times best seller The Four Hour Work Week, an amazing read that i can’t recommend highly enough. aside from being an extremely interesting entrepeneur in his own right, he has spent extensive time living all throughout the world, including BE. from what i’ve seen he has a great community of open-minded people ranging in ages from 20-40 that frequent his blog. he would certainly be a great person to contact to pick his brain and his blog would be a great place to post on to get your name out there. at the very least check it out.
glad to hear you’re doing well. halloween was fun. i saw gex, gus, archie and the youngins at tep.
miss you and keep up the good work.
TK