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Location independence is a growing trend among technology and knowledge worker

Knowledge worker

Knowledge workers in today's workforce are individuals who are valued for their ability to act and communicate with knowledge within a specific subject area. They will often advance the overall understanding of that subject through focused analysis, design and/or development. They use research...

s that has been popularized by blogs like LocationIndependent.com, Thrilling Heroics, Fluent in 3 months, Virtual Business Lifestyle and Workshifting. A location independent professional—or digital nomad

Digital nomad

Digital nomads are a new breed of resourceful entrepreneurs who are able to live and work anywhere they please. Nomadic workers typically enjoy a flexible and fulfilling lifestyle, leveraging technology and the internet to work remotely—from home, the coffee shop, internet cafe, or even to...

—often adopts Timothy Ferriss

Timothy Ferriss

Timothy Ferriss is an American author, entrepreneur, and public speaker. In 2007, he published The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich, which was a New York Times and USA Today bestseller. In 2010, he followed up with The 4-Hour Body...

' principles of lifestyle design and utilizes new technology to design a lifestyle that allows them to live and work wherever they want—be it from home, the internet cafe, on the beach, or even from the other side of the world.

Location independent professionals frequently work as freelance writers, photographers, affiliate marketers

Affiliate marketing

Affiliate marketing is a marketing practice in which a business rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer brought about by the affiliate's own marketing efforts...

, web designers, web developers

Web developer

A web developer is a software developer or software engineer who specializes in, or is specifically engaged in, the development of World Wide Web applications, or distributed network applications that are run over HTTP from a web server to a web browser....

, graphic designers, programmers and often other working holiday jobs such as teaching English (TESOL

TESOL

TESOL may refer to:* The acronym "Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages", used in English as a Foreign or Second Language * TESOL Inc., a professional organization based in the United States for people working in this field...

or TEFL). Sometimes they simply pick up odd jobs as they travel, such as fruit picking or WWOOFing. Minimalism

Minimalism

Minimalism describes movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and music, where the work is set out to expose the essence, essentials or identity of a subject through eliminating all non-essential forms, features or concepts...

for the sake of light travel is frequently emphasized, but not required.

The blogosphere and prevalence of social media makes it much easier for anyone to share their ideas with a global audience and build a successful business online. With the increasing availability of free and cheap wifi internet access around the globe, a nomadic, entrepreneurial lifestyle is increasingly possible for people to attain.

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