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!
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Hey @iamaileencom! Welcome and congratulations on making your first post!!!
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Thank you! It's great to be here :D
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Welcome @iamaileencom to steemit. It is a great place to be in this new crypto-world. There is a lot to learn about crypto and Steem, so if you have any questions, let me know or anyone in the community, everyone is helpful.
One thing I suggest is to verify your account here, since there is a lot of account misuse. Maybe a mention that you are now on twitter from your twitter account or one of your other social media accts would be very helpful to your steemit account, then blog about that link/mention here on steemit so the community can see it is really you. Please let me know if you do this so I can help support your new steemit account. I won't see it unless you let me know. Take care.
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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!
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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.
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Welcome to Steemit!! Your intro post is very exciting!!
I look forward to reading your adventures!!
Followed you!!
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Thank you so much! I followed you back. Hope to be more involved with the community :D
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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.
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Welcome to Steemit!!
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Thank you! <3
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Hey Aileen nice to be here on steemit. If you have any doubt regards steemit.i just texted you in Instagram.
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Thanks! I'll check on it :D
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Welcome Aileen
to the great community of Steemit
You are a new Steemian now!
I saw your #introduceyourself and its nice to meet you. Travel is a big tag here
Blogging, building and uplifting eachother is what this platform is all about and what its all about on this blockchain. The best part is that you could earn money too.💴💸💰
I never blogged before I just write.
But be carefull with all your passwords, Never give those up !!
For safety tips visit https://steemit.com/steem/@verhp11/safety-first-first-aid-kit-for-steemians-who-are-just-beginning-this-great-journey from Our fellow steemy @verhp11.
The Steemify App I use is great, it is available in the Appstore and free, go cheque it out. I wish you good luck with steeming and I Will See you around🍀
Your value and input is appreciated!
Good luck with your journey and may you find what you are looking for.
Just remember that all good things come in good time and never giving up is they key to big succes on Steemit.
Let me know if this was helpfull or you need more help.
Greetings from Brittandjosie from the Netherlands
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Thank you so much for these tips and warm welcome :) Looking forward to my stay here!
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Welcome to Steem @iamaileencom.
Do read A thumb rule for steemit minnows - 50:100:200:25 for starter tips.
Spend time reading Steem Blue Paper to know how Steem blockchain works and if you still have any queries ask them on our Ask me anything about Steemit post and we will try to answer that.
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Thank you! I will :)
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Welcome on board!!! Your life looks really interesting, wow! Nice to meet you ^_^
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Aw thanks! Nice to meet you too!
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Welcome to the steemit family @iamaileencom! :D
You are going to love being a Steemian! I've met a lot of wonderful people since I joined last year and a lot of my new friends are actually from the Philippines. :D You've got a beautiful country and some gorgeous pictures in this post, thanks for sharing them. :D
I love the picture with the penguins in the third picture and the bride (at least it looks like a bride) in the first picture the best, but that last picture is just breathtaking. :D
God bless you. :D Have an awesome day! :D
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Quite a mile of worthwhile Revelations about yourself indicating you as a travel person and blogger.
You have found a friend in me !! I have upvoted and followed you. Would you please do so as well @iamaileencom??
Keep feeding us with your unique stravel stories on your blogger.
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Wow, what an amazing adventure you are having - i'm very jealous lol. Welcome to the steemit community @iamaileencom, i hope you enjoy it as much as i do! I've upvoted and am following - to hear some of those great travel stories :)
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Aww thank you! I followed you back too! All the best.
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Hey! Welcome to Steemit. Sounds like you've had quite the life experience and figured out a lot of things young. At 42, I spend way too much time wishing that I had achieved this level of insight at 20.
Anyhow, looking forward to seeing your posts!
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Wowwww! You're truly great for having wandered around almost free! Welcome to the world of steem. Can you help me how to travel for free too?
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Thank you! And sure thing :D Maybe my article here can help give you an idea: https://iamaileen.com/quit-job-5-steps-to-start-life-of-travel/
Let me know if you have questions.
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Congratulations on your success :)
I am sure you will be a big hit here...if you need any assistance let me know and I would be happy to help...
Welcome to this amazing platform and have an awesome day :)
And this link would help you a lot to start..just tell them Alice sent you here...
https://discord.gg/y863T7m
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@iamaileencom welcome to Steemit! Great to have you!
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I've been to Vietnam and Hawaii. Love your photo with the cute penguins.
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Awesome! I haven't been to Hawaii yet. And thanks, I loved that trip to Antarctica!
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Beautiful.
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How are you, magical gypsy girl?
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Welcome to Steemit, Aileen! You have such an amazing life story and I look forward to reading and seeing more of what you share! 😏 ❤
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I'm sure this will be cake for you then if you've already killed it on a few other platforms! Your IG pics are killer as well!
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Aww, thanks. I'm not sure, but hopefully! I'm also glad that you like my photos. :)
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I'm sure you will! My girlfriends quite fond of your IG! :D She said the colours in your apartment picture were awesome!
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Welcome to Steemit, @iamaleencom! With your travels you'll have success in no time on here :) Looking forward to seeing all of your travels!
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Welcome to Steemit! It's very Nice to meet you. :-)
Upvoted and followed!
(If you have any questions about working with Steemit just ask and I'll answer them if I can)
I hope you have lots of fun here and make many friends! :-)
Thank you for sharing! :-)
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Welcome to Steemit! Your travels sound amazing and I looove your IG!
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Halo @iamaileencom, welcome to steemit.com, Nice to introduce you, Have a great Day with your New Journey here, greeting from Indonesia :)
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great to connect and welcome to steemit. I look forward to sharing and supporting each other grow on the platform because i am also new to the platform. Welcome
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Great to have you on board of the steemit ship @imaileencom!
I guess we can all learn a lot from professional bloggers like you :-)
Enjoy your time on this platform and best of luck for your doings.
Resteemed your intro to my followers
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Can' wait to see more of your posts!! Love trip blogs
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They contacted me after a blog post of mine went viral on Facebook which is this one: https://iamaileen.com/quit-job-5-steps-to-start-life-of-travel/
And technically, my life of travel started after I started working online first. Blogging came second. :)
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Thank you! <3
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