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I post six hours a day to every media outlet I am able to find. This has resulted in about 30,000 views each month. That results in about fifty cents per day in ad revenue. I’m rolling in success.
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Make use of this advantage by pitching to clients in countries that are offering travel writing work. While the coronavirus numbers tell us one story, reality speaks another. When the UK was peeking its hospital capacity and the outlook seemed grim, I surprisingly got a chance to write for a London-based AirBnB management services company. Do not let all the morose news bring your spirits low. Many countries are opening tourism again. A bunch of European nations, some South-East Asian islands and parts of Africa will soon be launching their travel campaigns. (Now you know where to start pitching. 😉 )
I speak from current experience! Right now, I’m completing a travel writing internship. And let me tell you, I absolutely adore it. I’ve always had a passion for writing and my wanderlust is never-ending, so combining the two seemed like a no-brainer for me. The feeling of waking up in the morning and being excited about what destination I’m going to write about next makes me feel very thankful. It also makes me feel very thankful that I’m able to connect with and inspire others through writing. That’s certainly where I feel like I’m fulfilling part of my purpose!
Thanks to a couple of my favorite bloggers*, I’ve been thinking about the “side hustle” lately. Seems the popular term for side job has shifted from “gig” to “hustle,” and with it, comes a more pejorative connotation.
Let’s start here: once upon a time, when graduating with my MFA in Creative Writing, I learned of an opportunity to do part-time contract work in internal communications—for the credit card company headquartered nearby. Not for a hip advertising firm. Not even for a nonprofit with a compelling cause. Nope, this job would require clocking in and out for the Fortune 500 company sometimes referred to around town as “the devil.”
Internal communications for the devil meant digesting leadership meeting notes on risk management and summarizing and synthesizing said notes into digestible PowerPoint presentations. (Oh, the myriad PowerPoint presentations!) And then came the fun of organizing the presentation…