Hey, I am Aileen! I've Been Traveling the World for a Living Since I was 21 (...Here's how!)
I'm sure you've heard from a lot of other people who managed to procure a career where they get paid to travel the world — but here's my story as someone who comes from Asia (the Philippines to be exact) and who also holds a limited 'third world' passport.
A Little About My Past...
I worked for almost 2 years at a bank that paid about less than $300 (hello, 'third world'!) — despite being regarded as one of the highly-valued fresh graduate employees that they had. Safe to say, I had little to no savings. I even became terribly uninspired especially when I realized that the 9-to-5 grind was just NOT for me, and that I had a grand dream that I didn't want to put off anymore.
...And so, I decided to quit my job — NOT to travel the world just yet, but rather, to develop a remote lifestyle that works for me.
How I Made a Travel Lifestyle Possible
After I quit my job, I did online work related to graphic design and marketing. In just a few months, I ended up building my own online Amazon business (of "private labeling", as I was inspired by one of the online businesses that I worked for) and developing my own travel blog (which eventually went viral after I was featured on BBC for my life story).
As such, when I was 21, I finally succeeded in securing financial freedom while also making my travel dreams a reality.
Today, it's my blog that helps me the most in securing trips (through all-expenses-paid trips from brands and organizations; in fact, one of the best blog partnerships I had was securing a trip to Antarctica!) whereas my online business continues to keep me secure (but I am actually planning on developing a new business that's more related to travel — we'll see!).
I've also recently started doing videos and posting them on my YouTube channel (iAmAileen.TV), and it's doing great. (For example, see a summary of my 2017 travels here: [click]. I also just reached 1 million views in one of the videos I made!)
Now, with Steemit!
I've just been introduced to this community and I'm quite excited about sharing my adventures, knowledge and passion to you, "Steemers" — and then knowing about yours too!
I hope we could start and continue to support one another, and if you have any questions, please feel free to ask me below. Thank you! ♥️
You could follow me through the links below...
Steemit: https://steemit.com/@iamaileencom
Instagram: https://instagram.com/i_am_aileen
YouTube: http://iamaileen.tv
Twitter: https://twitter.com/iamaileen/
Blog: http://iamaileen.com
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Thanks for the tips!
Hey @iamaileencom! Welcome and congratulations on making your first post!!!
Thank you! It's great to be here :D
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Thank you! I've been into crypto lately indeed, so it's great to hear about this community.
About verifying my account, thanks for the tip!
No problem @iamaileencom I know it will make a big difference on here if you do verify your account that way, and again, please look me up if and when you do so I can support your page. Take care.
Welcome to Steemit!! Your intro post is very exciting!!
I look forward to reading your adventures!!
Followed you!!
Thank you so much! I followed you back. Hope to be more involved with the community :D
Tell you what. The gratefulvibes (GV) discord community is a good place to start.
In fact, many members are from the Philippines. You will like it there.
The people are encouraging and supportive!!
Here is the link to join: https://discord.gg/y863T7m
Everyone at the GV discord calls me Papa Bear, you can as well.
I'm gonna Resteem this post for you as well.
Welcome to Steemit!!
Thank you! <3
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Thanks! I'll check on it :D
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Thank you so much for these tips and warm welcome :) Looking forward to my stay here!
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