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