The current landscape for women in the workplace has been a challenging time with the global pandemic disproportionately impacting working mothers and women. But this challenge also comes with significant potential rewards, specifically due to the digital availabilities. Advantages in the digital landscape are everywhere, offering us profound opportunities in work efficiency, availability, and freedom. Rarely is this as true as it is with the concept of working as a digital nomad. With the right equipment and approach, this type of employment can give women the freedom to wander and support themselves like never before, and it’s only getting easier.
What is a Digital Nomad?
As detailed at Investopedia, a digital nomad is somebody who uses technology to adopt a permanent remote work style approach to employment without a fixed home location. This means digital nomads are free to wander the country, or even different countries while being able to continually support themselves with their work.
What can Digital Nomads Do?
This is a broad question, where the answer is essentially most types of work that can be accomplished on a remote basis. Such work systems include writing, IT management, programming, website development, social media marketing, customer support, and much more. It’s also worth noting that, with so many more jobs entering the remote work arena in 2020 and 2021, many more traditional jobs are also becoming feasible as a digital nomad.
Addressing the Digital Nomad Challenges
If you already work remotely, then you likely have a good idea of digital nomad demands. For those looking to make a move into digital nomad employment in the short or long term, you first need to find experience and prepare yourself for the challenges ahead.
Some proven starting points for digital nomads can be found in online employment websites such as those described on Techradar. Here, services like Upwork and Freelancer can be a great way to both build a digital resume and prepare yourself for the challenges that digital nomad work represents.
Each of these challenges can be alienating at first, but each is also largely solvable for the properly prepared. Working with businesses in different time zones, for example, can take some getting used to. If you want to work a regular set of hours when on the go then communicating with people on the other side of the world can create some initial difficulty and frustration. This can require a change of timetables and irregular work hours, but with a flexible attitude and a highly organized approach, these demands can often be adapted to quite quickly.
On a more local scale, you’ll also have to get used to finding a viable work environment. This can be especially problematic if you want to work in another country with a different language. Again, the right approach, like adopting language apps, can cut down on the confusion here immensely. As demonstrated in this Lingopie review, modern language apps are easy to use, and most importantly, are actually fun to engage with. Teaching through television shows in this case is a great way to merge binge-watching and education, to acclimate a nomad to their new environment quickly and efficiently.
As with any change of career or career path, taking up digital nomad work will require an adjustment period. That said, if you’re someone who needs flexibility, then it could seriously be worthy of consideration.
