117: The Income Strategy That Makes Moving Abroad 10x Easier

Let's face it. Moving abroad and getting a job (or figuring out your income in general) and getting a visa can be a bit of a stressful process. But maybe there's a way to alleviate a lot of that stress. 

In this episode, we break down the income strategy that makes moving abroad faster and less stressful—and why relying on job sponsorship often delays people by years. But there's a way to move abroad a whole lot easier and faster. 

What you’ll learn:

• What most visas actually care about
• Why portable income gives you more freedom
• How starting before you move changes everything

We’ll also cover:

• Why traditional jobs abroad are often the hard way
• The fastest freelance and business options that work for visas
• Common mistakes that delay people for years
• What I’d do today if I were starting from scratch

The big takeaway? You don’t need a massive business to move abroad—you need income that’s stable.

This episode is about designing a life that works globally, not just escaping where you are.

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And you might even start freelance work and say, honestly, I didn't realize how much I was missing out and I'm really enjoying this work. You're able to start building this up on the side of whatever you're doing, wherever you're at in life, I think that this would be a really easy path that you can take. get a Visa, be able to have the income, and be able to move abroad within a few months. Hey, my name is Jordan Giberson. I'm a Texas girl living and thriving in London. The best thing I've ever done? Moving abroad, hands down. And I'm passionate about helping others do the same. Are you curious about finding a job abroad? You're in the right place, friend. I'll teach you the tried and true secrets of how to make moving abroad a reality for you and how to live a fulfilling life once you get there. We'll cover topics like choosing the best visa for you, how to get a job offer in another country, how to get over your fear of moving abroad, and how to live a life you love once you get there, this is The Move Abroad Podcast. Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Move Abroad podcast. Today I'm talking about something that I feel would be one of the best ways to be able to move abroad the easiest, simplest way that you can actually be able to move abroad on your own terms and in your own time. And I think that it's the income strategy that makes moving abroad 10 times easier. And that is building freelance work or online business work of some sort. So we'll get into that a little bit later. But I think that doing online business, building up your own portfolio of companies that you work for, like doing freelance work or becoming a contractor in some capacity, I think is the best way to be able to move abroad, or it's the easiest. So in today's episode, we'll talk about why having this type of income makes moving abroad so much easier. And you might be thinking, well, I really want to have a job. I'm so used to having a job, and I think that's a great option too. I have a job abroad and I am grateful for it, and I think it's a great way to be able to move abroad. But if you want to be able to move abroad ASAP and on your own terms, I think that you can go from, I just need a job to move abroad to, I can design income that moves with me so that I can move abroad whenever I want to and wherever I want to. So if you've been waiting until you move abroad to figure out money, then I think this could be a really easy way to not make it feel harder than it needs to be or feel more stressful than it needs to be. I also think that moving abroad with freelance work or building up some sort of online contract work or something similar is so great because most visas and most countries, they don't really care where your income comes from. They just want to make sure that you have it. I think that starting a business or freelancing, having online digital work could save you years of waiting, years of confusion. I think saving yourself from the stress of trying to get a job abroad basically ensures you're able to move abroad again on your own terms. So I think if I were doing it again, I would strongly consider doing freelance work because I think that you can build up income before you actually move abroad and it makes moving abroad and getting a visa so much simpler than trying to convince a company to give you work. I think that's definitely possible in some countries abroad to be able to get a job. Definitely can do it, but I think sometimes it takes longer and I think it takes more of a hustle and it takes more work, than being able to build up your own freelance work or business abroad So today we're going to talk about why remote work makes getting a visa and moving abroad so much easier and how you can do it where it's not stressful whenever you're moving abroad. So having some security in your income before you move abroad I think makes it feel so much simpler and in today's episode, we'll also talk about the mistakes that people make that delay moving abroad by two to five years. And why this income strategy of having freelance work or contract work or an online business that you're building up makes moving abroad 10 times easier. This might not be something that you want to hear depending on who's listening here, but let's talk about why traditional jobs abroad are the hard way. The reason why I want to cover this is I think it breaks that most difficult hurdle of, I need sponsorship belief that you have to have a company that hires you, that they have to sponsor you so that you can get a visa so that you can move abroad. Getting job sponsorship, so basically you have to have a company that says, yes, we want to hire you, and. Hello, like government, we are taking care of this person. We're making sure they're paid, so they have to pay for a visa, go through the visa process and hire you. It's definitely possible to do this, but I do think that getting job sponsorship is slower. I think that it's more competitive. I also think it's really country specific. Some countries are going to be much easier to move abroad and get job sponsorship than others, and I think that the language barrier can also be real. I think that it can be a reality. And something that's a bit more challenging because you have to convince the company that you are learning the language. Probably English is their primary language unless you speak another language very fluently. so the language barrier is definitely a real thing. And I think you're also trying to convince that company that you are actually going to move abroad and that you're not just doing this for a six month vacation or just one year where they're wanting to invest in you. And then you just wanna move back home. Like I think that it takes a little bit of convincing for companies to know that you're going to be moving there asap. A lot of companies don't want to wait three months before you move there. They want you to be there in like two weeks to start. So I think that's also something that's a hesitation for companies. They want security, that you're going to be moving there, that you're there for the long term. The language barrier is definitely a thing. And job sponsorship is definitely another hurdle. In transparency, I have Visa sponsorship, so this is the route that I chose. And I think most people are employed and used to having a job, and so it feels like an easier mental transition to get a job abroad. The reality is that there are more hurdles in order to get a job abroad and to be able to get Visa sponsorship. And it might take a lot longer for you to get the job that you want, the salary that you want for it to be in the city that you want. I think it just takes more time and more hustle to be able to get that because of these barriers that we just talked about. So I think that getting a traditional job, while it's definitely possible and while a lot of people do it, I have a friend that just moved abroad recently to Germany and got a job by just applying online on LinkedIn. So it's definitely possible I've done it as well in London, but it definitely takes a lot of hustle and it's just kind of convincing companies that you're worth it. But at some point someone's going to fall in love with you and really want you on their team, and they'll be willing to go through the process to get you. But it is just, a little bit more of a difficult route. So that's why we're talking in this episode about the income strategy that makes moving abroad 10 times easier, where you can move abroad on your terms. So I think that the next section I wanted to talk about is the visa reality that a lot of people don't really talk about, and I think it's just that other visa categories are so much easier to get than to get sponsored on a normal work visa. I think that getting sponsored on a work visa again is possible, but it's just a little bit more challenging, whereas getting a digital nomad visa is so easy. And the reason why I think that it's so valuable and so much easier is because you can start building up income right now, like wherever you're at. Right now you can start building up income online by finding some sort of online work to do freelance work or building up like maybe you become a contractor internally in a company. Maybe you find a remote job, like that's also possible. Maybe you decide to start a business online, but I think it's just generating income for yourself so that you can get whatever visa you want in whatever country you want. And I think that it's just building up that security before you move abroad so that you can kind of say, okay, I have income. I'm taking care of myself now. Like where do I wanna go? And it just makes moving abroad so much simpler because getting a digital nomad visa is so easy. You just have to prove that you have a certain amount of income every month, basically from companies that are not inside that country. So if you want to move to Italy, for example, you would need to prove that the income that you're making is not from Italian companies. It would be from like American companies or from other companies in other countries around the world that are not Italy, if that makes sense. You can also get a self-employment visa or a freelance specific visa, which again are both easy countries don't really care how you're making money necessarily. They just want to know that you're going to have money, that you'll be able to take care of yourself and you're not gonna be using the public funds or become a bum on the street. Like they just wanna make sure that you're bringing in money and not going to be taking the money of the government, of public services and things like that. So I think that's why getting this visa is so much easier because the visas that you can get, like the digital nomad visa, self-employment or freelance visas, they're so much easier to get once you kind of disprove that, you have that income. But you can start building that income before you even move abroad, before you even start. Looking at the visas, you can build that up on the side even if you're fully employed, you can start building that up so that you are ready to make the jump. Especially if you're moving to a country that has a lower cost of living, like Portugal, for example. It would make it so much easier to build up just a few clients, like even. Two, three clients where you have a little bit of income in order to take care of yourself while you're there, then you can continue building up your business once you're doing that full time. So I know it really depends on the line of work that you have, but I think that a lot of industries, there are ways that you can work online, even if it's just a little bit of a shift in your career. So you might be saying I'm a nurse, I can't really do that. It's a bit more difficult for me to have online work, but I think that there are routes that you can take. Like my sister is a nurse and she was even looking into ways that she could work from home. So there definitely are different ways that you can do that or different avenues that are close to what you're doing, but just a little bit different. The next thing I want to talk about is something that we've already been discussing a little bit, but that's why starting now makes moving abroad 10 times easier. Now would be the perfect time to build up one to maybe three clients where you just have enough money to be able to move abroad because you can start building up income history for whenever you get a visa. You can start gathering your documents, test what works for you. You know you're able to do for work in the industry that you work in, and I think it just provides you so much more freedom to choose where you want to live and not just where you're hired. It also provides you so much more freedom to be able to travel once you're there. I think that's one of the reasons why people love moving abroad to Europe, because even if you're living in one place, you have freedom to go to so many different countries and just enjoy living there. So you could have a home base, but be able to go to other countries on a long weekend, or maybe you go work at an Airbnb for a week or two in another country because you can, because your work is online and you have that freedom and flexibility to do that instead of working for a company in that country. Where it's a little bit more challenging. It's also great because you can build a network of friends that are in a similar industry. This is also a great opportunity because you can find a coworking space in your new city abroad where you can connect with like-minded people. You can connect with people who are probably also digital nomads. There probably will be other people that are in a similar boat to you, because again, I think this is one of the easier ways to move abroad. And many people that I have met who have lived abroad in Europe, a lot of those people have been freelancers. They have been consultants online. They have digital work that's their own. And some of them do have remote jobs and that's also possible to do, but I think that having your own work provides you so much freedom to be able to move anywhere that you want to. And again, I think that one of the reasons that makes this so valuable and so worthwhile to be able to move abroad quickly is because you can build up that income wherever you're at now, then it makes moving abroad so much easier. You kind of already have that security. You're not trying to look for a job and trying to get Visa sponsorship. You're not trying to move abroad without any income or without a job at all, and just trying to make it work. sometimes it works out for people, but sometimes it's a big struggle to find work abroad. So I think that it just provides you this freedom to not feel stressed about money, to have the income that you want and need. And maybe once you're abroad, maybe you end up finding work. Then like maybe you end up finding Visa sponsorship then, and you decide to take that route. I feel like stops a delay in people moving abroad, which again, I think makes it so much easier to be able to move abroad. So some of the best freelancing and business options for aspiring expats. If you're looking to move abroad and you're thinking, okay, well what should I be doing? I think that the buckets are fairly clear. It's going to be like freelancing work, which is going to be the fastest where you find one. I mean, one's a little bit risky, but you just start building up some clients. So just try work on getting your first one. I would start by reaching out to your old employers, seeing if they need any work and thinking about, like what could you do? I think there's so many different options, even if you're in an industry that you feel like. You won't be able to do online work in, honestly, there probably is some sort of avenue, some sort of angle that's just something different that you might not have considered, but would be a good option, especially if you're already working on a laptop now and that's your full-time job. So some examples of freelance work that you could start building up would be a virtual assistant. That could be a great option, being a copywriter. Maybe social media management, maybe it's UX or web design, maybe it's online coaching of some sort. So I mean, there are so many different options. if Probably go on chat DBT and say this is my current job. What are some freelancing options that might work for me? It'll probably list you out some specific freelance work or like project types that you could consider. So if you do something online, like if you're in marketing for example, then copywriting could be an option, or maybe it's design or maybe it's like website building or even coding jobs like that could be another option. I mean, there are just so many different jobs like project management. I mean, there are a million project management jobs that you could find online, and that's a great one that you could build up remotely if you wanted to. So there are just so many different options. I think that it's the fastest option to start building up online work. I think it has low startup costs. There's not a whole lot of risk associated. there's basically no risk associated at all. Like you're just doing a bit of work and you bill your clients. You can also start building up proof of income really quickly so that you can be able to get a visa very, very quickly. Once you have three to six months of income, you can show the, government basically in your Visa application that you have proof of income and that's consistent for you. I think it's also really easy to explain to immigration. There's nothing tricky about it. It's very simple to be able to build it up. Again, I would start by reaching out to some of your old employers. I would maybe do a LinkedIn post or two. I would start like, there's so many websites online where you can. Build up a profile for yourself where companies go on. And they look for freelance work. I mean, there's so many different websites that you can find online for that. So I think that there are a lot of different options to start building up freelance work, and I think that it's one of the simplest ways. Another kind of different bucket of online work that you could consider is some sort of like service based online business. This one is going to take a little bit more work to build up. But some examples could be consulting, or maybe it's some sort of niche coaching, or maybe it's some sort of done for you services. I think this could be great for people who have existing skills that they've already built up over time in work, and maybe it's corporate professionals that are pivoting a little bit to have an online business of some sort. So I think this could be another really great option that might take a little bit more time to build up, but could be a really great income option for you where you're not, just being a freelancer, but you're building more of a business, so that could be a potential for you as well. there are so many businesses as well that you can just manage online that you could build up as well. The sky's the limit. Anything that could be online, it could be an online clothing store, it could be some sort of like business. That would be probably easier. To manage remotely. But I think there are just so many different options, building courses, maybe you start doing content creation. That one's a little bit more difficult, I think, but it's totally possible. Affiliate marketing could be a choice. So I think that there are so many different options in general to just build up. Online work and be able to be paid for it. And again, anything that you have that is income coming in, anything that you're able to do on your laptop where you're able to get income, whether it's an online business or freelance work consulting, there's so many different options for online work that you just need a laptop where you can work remotely from anywhere, anytime you're able to build that up and just have income like monthly paychecks that are coming in some sort, then that's just, guaranteeing that you can get a visa. So I think it's more difficult to do that if you don't already have a business that you've built. Takes a little bit more time to start seeing that income, but I think that freelancing is one of the easiest and quickest ways to start just building up that income and just have a paycheck every month that's coming in. From your clients that you can prove to the government whenever you're applying for a visa, that you have constant income. So I think that it's so much easier. I think that building up a business might take longer. It's great long term, but if you're needing income for a visa in, six months time, let's say, I think that freelance work is the easiest income strategy that's going to get you to be able to move abroad really, really quickly. I think that some of the most common mistakes that delay moving abroad in general is just waiting for perfect clarity. I see this all the time where people are just waiting for the perfect time. They're waiting for the stars to align. They're waiting for something to fall in their lap where it feels obvious that's the only next step that you can take is moving abroad. But in reality, that's not really going to happen. That's not practical. I think in most cases, you have to be proactive about anything in life that you want. You have to go after it and pursue it and not just wait for it to drop in your lap. But I think that's one of the most common mistakes, and I think that's why. Building up freelance work is the easiest way to be able to move abroad because you can start building an income for yourself while you're still in your normal job, while you're still in your normal life, and then you can apply for a digital nomad visa or a freelance visa really, really easily, and you're able to move. Very, very quickly. So I think that it's probably the easiest way to be able to move abroad. The primary, most easy way is to study abroad. I think that that is one of the easiest is getting a master's degree abroad or just studying because once you're admitted into the university, into the school, into the language program or whatever it is, getting a visa is super, super simple. If you are already working already a little bit late in your career, I think that this could be a really great option for you to start building an income for yourself and build up the freedom and flexibility to work from anywhere you really want. Get that digital nomad visa or freelance visa really, really easily. So again, I think that this is the easiest way. I think another common mistake that you might see that would delay moving abroad is just starting too many ideas at once. Not having kind of consistency and just trying to like do too many things. I think just focus on getting your first client, like that's all you need. Just focus on like the first step is figuring out what you're going to do. So that's the first thing that I would do. If you're curious about this after the episode, I would honestly go on ChatGPT if it's not already blatantly obvious for you to say like. Hi, ChatGPT This is my current job that I have. I have this many years of experience. These are the typical things I do in my job, like what are the different opportunities that I could have as a freelancer based on the job that I have now. And what are some other opportunities that you think I might be able to pivot to? So, honestly, after this episode, that's what I would do. Even five minutes of just asking ChatGPT, again, it might be blatantly obvious to you if you're like, oh, I'm designer right now in your current job. And it's like, okay, like that would be a very easy thing to start building up freelance work and start trying to get your first client. and then just work on getting your first client. It just takes one to prove to yourself that you can make income on your own, that you can do freelance work, then after that, if you're able to get maybe one to two more clients just to have a bit more security in your income, then I think that would be incredible. You have the income that you need in order to move abroad. Even just having a small handful of clients. I think ideas at once, would be a mistake like you're like, I'm gonna do web design and I'll just do graphic design and I'll do this and that. I think just kind of pick something that's your niche and something that you want to focus on, something that feels the most exciting to you, that you know you have experience in or can grow that experience and just focus on that one thing as you're kind of building it up once you have a few clients, then you can get fancy later. Then you can maybe start looking into other things that you can expand your services in. But I think just keeping it simple at first is most ideal. Another mistake that people might make is underpricing services do a lot of research on what your income could be and what you should be charging. I do think that if you're new at doing something, then. Yes, you might wanna start at a lower cost, but don't underprice your services. I think just be mindful of what other people are charging because you might be underpricing your services, especially if you're new and you feel like you're still trying to prove to yourself that, you're worthy in a way if I, properly wording that. But I think that's kind of what it is. Whenever you're first starting something, you feel a little bit. Imposter syndrome or like you don't really know what you're doing, but I think just be mindful not to underprice your services whenever you're first starting, even though you might start a little bit lower for your first couple of clients as you gain experience. I think that's okay, but not underpricing too much. Another mistake that you might see is just not documenting your income properly. You'll want to make sure that you have a proper proof for whenever you're applying for visas, and just think of this as like a mini business. You do not need to make it overly complicated by any means. I don't think that you need to have fancy systems and don't get yourself overwhelmed by thinking like, oh, there's so much I don't know, and I have to have all these business things that are really, perfect. And you don't need that. You don't, I think you just need to make sure that you're documenting the income enough. So just do a little bit of research as to what you'll need to include. But don't get overwhelmed by this, honestly. So I think I would just getting freelance work, just start making progress. Just take a little bit of time after this episode to go on ChatGPT, do a little workshop with ChatGPT to figure out what your best option would be and what your best niche or work is going to be. And then figure out how you're going to your first client. Start reaching out to your old employer telling them that you're looking for freelance work and this is the services that you can provide. If you have a portfolio of some work that you've already done, then maybe put that together in a really simple way. It's just showing people the work that you've already done. To prove that you can do it and maybe even start building up something really small. If you haven't done it in the past, just kind of do something for yourself. Like if you're doing web design, maybe you build your portfolio on a webpage so you can show the work that you can do on your webpage. Just as a little example. But I think just starting to make progress is better than perfection. So figure out your niche and what you're going to do. Work on getting your first client. And keep it as simple as that. So I think just keeping this really simple I think is the best way. And you can do this while you have your current job. So I think if you are in a nine to five job, I think that's what makes this so cool and such a great way to move abroad because it's not taking the biggest leap, it's just finding one client online that you can work on the side while you're still keeping your nine to five job and just start building it up slowly to the point where you can. Apply for that digital nomad visa, get it quite easily and not keep your nine to five job, I think is a great option. Also, I feel like sometimes people think that. Once they leave nine to five, like company world, that they can't go back, that they're like messing up their career or something. And I so disagree with that. You can totally, even if you wanted to build up freelance work for one to two years and you just want to move abroad for a little bit, I think you can build up freelance work, do that for a couple years and then jump back into the business world and nine to five job if you really want to. I honestly don't think that it's gonna slow down your career at all. I think that if anything, it would improve it. It just makes you, differentiates you from so many other people in nine to five jobs. I think that if you have this experience of like, oh yeah, I decided that I wanted to move abroad and live, you know, on my own in another country. I wanted to have the experience, I have the challenge and I built up freelance work by myself and like these are the skills that I built and like you're kind of building so many other skills in that as well, like the fact that you moved abroad to another country. I think that shows. Confidence to an employer. It's just really interesting and like it differentiates you. I think that like the business development that you get of like building up clients, working with clients being able to like work internationally for like clients in other countries. I think there are so many different skills that you build up in freelance work that you wouldn't get in a nine to five job that would give you a leg up above other people that have just been in. Nine to five jobs in corporate world or startup world or whatever. I honestly think that you can build up skills that are really interesting for a future employer that's a couple years down the road. So I don't think that you have to say like, oh, I'm sacrificing my career if I have freelance work for a little bit. Because honestly, that's probably something that I would be thinking, but I don't think that's the case at all. If anything, it could be helping you. And I think like more and more I'm seeing people take a year off, take a sabbatical, take you know, time to do something else for a little bit. I have a friend that was a freelancer for several years after doing corporate world for a little bit, and he just went back into corporate world. So I think that it's definitely possible to bounce back and forth and again, if anything, I think it differentiates your work and the value you can bring to a team over time. So what I do, if I were starting from scratch today, I think that I would build one skill, pick one thing, take some time. Like I said, go on ChatGPT say like, this is my current job, these are all the current activities that I do in my day to day. What would be some freelance options for me? So that's the first thing I would do. Pick one skill. The next thing I would do is just focus on getting your one paying client. Just focus on one at first. Once you get the one and you get your first paycheck, then I think it just builds a lot more confidence to start working on getting your next couple. And I think that once you get three, I think that you're kind of in a good space to think about trying to get a visa, and I think it's just starting to track that income for the next three to six months, just proving that you have a track record of having income coming in. So that would be the next step, is you get your one to three paying clients. Then you're tracking your income for three to six months, and then you're just matching your income to visa options. There are different amounts of income that will match different visas. So for example, Portugal, the income might be a little bit lower than it might be in another country for the digital nomad visa. So you'll just need to look at that threshold and how much that income needs to be for different countries. So if you know that you want to move to Portugal, or you know that you want to move to a very specific country already, then go look up the digital nomad visa or if there's a freelance visa and just see what that income threshold is at so that you know how much income you need to bring in. And if you know what the income is that you need to bring in, you can start calculating how many clients you need to get there, how much you need to be paid from each client to get that. So I think you can work backwards to know what you need to build up in order to get that visa in order to move abroad. And I think again, then you're able to move with confidence. You already have the freelance work build up, so you're not starting a new job, starting something from scratch trying to get a job. I think that you already have this income set. I think that it just builds up this kind of freedom to, whenever you move abroad, you're not having this big question mark of a new job or kind of like trying to figure it out once you move abroad. I think that moving abroad is like a big step in and of itself, but you have this kind of security already of having the security of your income and having this rhythm of what you're already used to with work and you're already used to being on your laptop and like getting these things done. So then moving abroad is not that much more stressful because you already have the income part already taken care of. So the simple roadmap if you were starting from scratch today, that's making moving abroad so much easier is number one, pick one skill. The second thing is get one to three paying clients. Third step is to start tracking your income for three to six months to prove your payment. Step four is to match that income to visa options in the country that you're wanting to move abroad to. And the fifth is just moving abroad with confidence and with peace, knowing that you have the income that you need in order to move abroad in your use to your system. I think that it would be a little bit of a miss to spend just a couple minutes talking about. Who this path is not for. So this path is not for every single person. I think you just need to be really honest with yourself I think this does take responsibility. I think it does take self-management. You have to be a person that is self-motivated and not someone that needs. Somebody kind of looking over their shoulder, not needing, constant supervision to make sure that you're getting your work done on time. So you have to be really good at project managing, making sure that you're staying on top of things. So I think it's not for people that want zero responsibility, not for people that are. Unwilling to self-manage, or if you already know that you're not good at that. I think that's also people that are expecting instant freedom. I think that it takes a little bit of time to start building this up, but I think that you can absolutely build this up And I think the reason why this is so valuable in the income strategy that makes moving abroad 10 times easier is because you're able to start building this up on the side of whatever you're doing, wherever you're at in life, you can start trying to find the one thing that you want to provide and start getting your one to three clients and start building that up on the side so that you can quit your job and be able to move abroad within a few months. I think this is something that you can accomplish quite quickly. I think is a lot less stressful than perhaps trying to get Visa sponsorship because of all the barriers that we talked about before. Again, in total transparency, I have a job abroad, but I think that this income strategy, if I were living in the United States or wherever country you're in, and I really wanted to move abroad, and I had applied to a few jobs and had been unsuccessful, I think that this would be a really easy path that you can get a Visa, be able to have the income, and if you say like, this was really fun, like I enjoyed the freelance work and you're living abroad, then once you're already there, you can start looking for jobs if you want to, you can start looking for employment, but you don't have the income stressor or the visa stressor you have all the time that you need. You can just start looking easily and you can be more picky. Whereas if you're living in the United States and you need a job abroad or whatever country, again, that's any country and you really want to move abroad, I think that it's more of a barrier because you're trying to convince the company that you're willing to move there. Like you don't have a visa yet, you haven't like moved your life over there. they don't have proof that you're going to live there long term. But I think that if you're already living there and you can meet people in person, have interviews in person, then I think that it makes that so much easier. And you might even start freelance work and say, honestly, I didn't realize how much I was missing out on all this freedom and I'm really enjoying this work. And I think that that's a really cool thing too. Like you just never know how you're going to feel once you start getting into it. But I think that if anything, it would just be a really easy stepping stone to be able to move abroad with your freelance work, and be able to look for further employment once you're there to get Visa sponsorship if you wanted to. So in wrapping up this episode, why don't you go on ChatGPT pick out the one skill that you want to build up and start thinking of ways that you can start finding your one to three clients. I think that this income strategy genuinely will make moving abroad so much easier. I really think that building up freelance work on the side while you're in your. Full-time job, pick one skill, get one to three paying clients, I mean, you can start building them up over a few months once you get your first one. I think it's showing other companies the work that you've been doing and I think it makes it so much easier to then get additional clients. I think it's just getting your first one tracker income for three to six months, and then you can easily apply for a Visa. Again, countries just want proof that you can provide your own income, that you have income, that you're not gonna be relying on the government to pay for you. And. That you're not just going to be a detriment to society, that you're going to be contributing to society and that you have income and you'll be taken care of. So that's really what countries care about. I think that really this would be the easiest way to move abroad. If you want to build up freelance work. I think that you could do that easily for one to two years. Like you could do that for a while. Maybe you do it much longer, but I think that you could easily do that, and then you can move back to whatever country you're from and get a full-time job again, it's not gonna hurt your career. Or you decide that you really want to go back into corporate world and you move there and you kind of start building up skills, built up a life there, and then you can slowly start looking for the right job and the best job that you really, really want, and not just be desperate because you just need a job and a visa and you'll take anything. So I think it just puts the power back in your court really, and just gives you so much more peace. That is it for me for today's episode. Thank you so much for listening to another episode of the Move Abroad podcast. If you've been enjoying the podcast and want to leave a review, I would really, really appreciate that. I will catch you here again next week, same time, same place. I'll catch you then