Pro Tips for Managing Your Workload as a Freelance Traveler

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Freelancing has become one of the most popular modern-day career choices. With the ability to work from a laptop and an internet connection, people are leaving their traditional offices to work from any location.  

What’s more, the online “gig economy” gives workers complete liberty to travel around the world while allowing you to make money.

While traveling for work sounds exotic to any desk-bound worker, there are other challenges that come with the game. For one, you’re entirely responsible for your own work and income. If you’re careless, it could wreak havoc on your earnings!

Ideally, you will have lots of free time – sitting free in the room, waiting at the airport, during a commute to another place, and more. But, in reality, you are tired, distracted, you have poor internet connectivity, and the hustle and bustle around won’t let you stay conductive to work.

So, here are some pro tips to ease your travel as a freelancer and to increase your productivity:

Plan And Prioritize:

One of the most effective ways to stay ahead with work while traveling is to keep updated with everything about work. For this, prioritize your work and schedule your deliverables so that you won’t miss any deadline date. 

Also, it’s very easy to get carried away when traveling, so make a checklist of important things. If you have any pre-scheduled meeting, set reminders so that you won’t miss any call while taking a glimpse of the beauty around. 

Furthermore, keeping “I’ll figure it out later” kind of attitude is not going to help you in any way. So, plan things ahead and make sure that you are prepared for the trip.

Utilize En Route Time:

Depending on your location of travel, you can utilize the travel time to complete your work. This way you will stay productive and will also kill your spare time. And the best part, you will have more hours to enjoy your travel location.

Also, keep your laptop handy and ensure you have a fast internet connection. While most of the airlines and buses are equipped with free Wi-Fi, some don’t have this option. So, if you have a long flight, choose an airline with free Wi-Fi to work en route. After all, why not use the free time, which you can later utilize lying on a beach.

Stay Connected Through Virtual Mailbox:

While most freelancer travellers and bloggers check their email compulsively, many tend to forget about their physical mail. You can go paperless for a lot of things…but not everything!

That’s when a virtual mailbox comes into play. 

From mail scanning to forwarding and depositing checks, a virtual mailbox offers a plethora of features. Having them, you can easily manage your postal mail and packages without any fuss. Plus, you will get complete access to receive, open, forward, shred, and discard mail online.

Using a virtual mailbox as a traveling freelancer is one of the easiest and smartest ways to manage mail and packages.

Co-Work and Coordinate:

When you decide to stay in a country for a while, don’t just hop on to the nearest coffee shop and make it your workplace. Instead, get involved with local freelancers and try to connect with them. 

This could be one of the best ways to network and to force the sociability in your traveler life. You can also rent a desk or can ask for a co-working space for the work.

The rising trend of working as a digital nomad has been rolling lately. Every other day, you will see a new entrant to the freelancing world.

If you have traveled as a freelance worker, what other tips can you share? Let us know in the comment section.