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Don’t Quit Your Day JobFinding the right balance for you
David Brodie & Chris Christensen
David Brodie • Travel in 10 Podcast & Blog
since 2005• Citizen Relations since 2006:
PR for Travelocity, Princess Cruises, Destination BC, Rocky Mountaineer
• 2013 Sabre Award for Top Global Travel & Tourism PR Campaign
@brodiedavid | @travelin10
Chris Christensen• Amateur Traveler
podcast / blog• This Week in Travel
podcast• BloggerBridge.com• T+L SMITTY 2014:
Best Independent Travel Journalist / Blogger”
@chrisx2 | @amateurtraveller
What we are going to talk about today?
How to increase your ability to travel and travel blog without giving up your career
•Good Reasons to Keep Your Job•Travel Stories You Can Create from Home•Becoming a local travel expert•Using your day job as a spring board
Good Reasons to Keep Your Job
1) You actually love your job!
Good Reasons to Keep Your Job
2) You really don’t want to be a nomad
Good Reasons to Keep Your Job
3) You really can’t be a nomad right now
Good Reasons to Keep Your Job
4) Some jobs help you travel
Good Reasons to Keep Your Job
5) Jobs actually pay money!
Myth Busting! You can run a successful travel blogging from home
Product Reviews
• Gear• Electronics• Cameras• Clothing• Books
PracticalTravelGear.com
Interviews• Focus / Brand
AmateurTraveler.com
Leverage Your Job
What is a smartcation?• Extending a business
trip• Timing work travel
around long weekends• Working from other
offices / Encouraging work from anywhere policies at your workplace
Leveraging Business Travel• Local expertise of
colleagues• Frequent Traveller
Programs – not just airlines, hotels, rental cars
• Flyertalk and other resources
Optimize Your Career
New Career
• Wrong Job• Wrong Career
Location Independent• Entrepreneur• Knowledge
Worker• VA• Flexible
Employer
Seasonal / Part Time
• Teacher • Ski Instructor• Contractor
Discussion• How did you find the right balance?• Why are you travel blogging?• What has worked for you? How are you
travelling?
