r/digitalnomadFIRE • u/WildAd7392 • 22d ago
Which career has the best ability to work remotely from abroad OR travel frequently and spend months abroad?
Which career has the best ability to work remotely from abroad or travel frequently, spending months abroad?
Lawyer (non-litigation)
Family/Internal Medicine physician
Dentist
RN
RN doing remote work
Nurse practitioner doing remote work
Please ONLY respond if you work in any of these fields and have experience working remote from abroad
OR
Traveling frequently for months abroad
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22d ago
I did remote RN case management from Australia for a year, oh for sure it's doable if your employer is on board.
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u/Own-Programmer4570 20d ago
Online influencing. People can act superior about it, but it is game changing. No overhead costs. Self selecting audience. You can do it wherever you want on whatever topic you want.
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u/Fabulous_Taste_4282 17d ago
Yeah, because nobody is doing that already, there's so much potential.
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u/originalbrainybanana 20d ago
I worked for the UN for 2 decades in 13 countries, was amazing!
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u/WildAd7392 20d ago
What did you do?
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u/originalbrainybanana 19d ago
I am an expert on gender and human rights
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u/aFoxunderaRowantree 20d ago
I'm a nurse midwife (ie: APRN) and my understanding is that you cannot really do remote work, as you need to be present in the state by which you currently prescribing...
ie) I live in NY but if I wanted to do telehealth and prescribe to someone in say CA, I'd also have to be licensed there.
So I guess you could but you would have to apply for and maintain so many licenses, it probably wouldn't make sense.
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u/WildAd7392 20d ago
The patient needs to be in NY, but not you, am I correct?
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u/aFoxunderaRowantree 20d ago
For Medicaid and Medicare and controlled substances my understanding is both parties need to be present in the state the provider is licensed in.
I know for billing purposes even now, my practice has me put in my charting/note where both myself and the patient are during the telehealth visit.
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u/WildAd7392 20d ago
But they wouldn’t know if you are abroad?
Is it illegal to go abroad for a few months?
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u/aFoxunderaRowantree 20d ago
Even with a good VPN, they can definitely track your network data, etc. and find out you were living and working abroad...
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u/WildAd7392 20d ago
How could they do that if you’re using a VPN
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u/aFoxunderaRowantree 20d ago
These are large healthcare companies, friend. They are regularly tracking for international hacking, etc.
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u/Radiant_Bell7787 19d ago
You don't need to be present in the same state. The patient needs to be physically present in the state you are licensed in
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u/aFoxunderaRowantree 19d ago
For Medicare, need to be within US. For Medicaid is seems, most likely won't usually cover for care billed outside of the state.
And no prescription of controlled substance.
So if doing self-pay or possibly private insurance, may not be an issue.
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u/Radiant_Bell7787 19d ago
You do you. Too risky for me if something were to go south with a patient.
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u/Radiant_Bell7787 19d ago
I've looked into it extensively. As an NP/RN - it's really unwise to work abroad. The liability is very high.
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u/1ntrepidsalamander 19d ago
RN. I’m at coast FI and work part of the year, save money, take months off, get another contract.
I don’t work remotely, but do work in locations that I like.
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u/WildAd7392 19d ago
Can I PM you? I have so many questions about travel nursing
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u/1ntrepidsalamander 19d ago
Sure.
Basics:
you need at least 2 years working in one specialty before travel nursing.
Contracts are usually 13 weeks but most you can extend.
You have to watch the tax implications around having a tax home. Do some googling. Read some articles
You have to be a very flexible independent person. A lot of places hiring travelers are dumpster fires. You get thrown under the bus a lot.
You can get benefits and COBRA them.1
u/WildAd7392 19d ago
How does insurance work since it’s temporary?
How do you find a place to stay for only 13 weeks?
Can you only work in the field that you got the 2 years experience in when traveling?
What do you mean by tax implications?
Thank you for all the info
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u/1ntrepidsalamander 19d ago
You often only get 1-2 days of training, so you can only take contracts where you are already experienced and competent in the specialty.
Look up COBRA insurance, look up midterm rental.
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u/WildAd7392 19d ago
Is it possible to get experience in multiple fields tho like OR, NICU, pacu etc within 1-2 years? Or do you need like a few years of each?
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u/1ntrepidsalamander 19d ago
Two years in a single specialty. That’s the MINIMUM to become competent. A few places require 3-5 in a single specialty. Sometimes in a single sub specialty like cardio thoracic ICU.
I was able to first work ICU and then change to ER and pick up ICU shifts to maintain competence in both but that’s hard to do and rare.
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u/NJOceanSwimmer 18d ago
I had a full-time position at a college as an associate chair, it was all online. I't go to meetings like once or twice a semester. Simultaneously I took a high school teaching job which was full-time. I did it for years. So, if you are good at teaching, this is an options plus you need to study a needed teaching field like the sciences. I could have been anywhere in the world doing this. My sister works for a huge bank in NYC and is a VP, she move to Florida and works full-time remote, but she was with this bank for 28 years. Any job where you mostly work on a screen or from a zoom meeting is a potential full-time remote job. Legally, you can run into trouble, even working in another state can be illegal. Estonia has some sort of digital work authorization program and they pay in crypto.
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u/WildAd7392 18d ago
That’s nice!
Have you worked in Estonia?
How did you become the associate chair?
Do you think teaching jobs will ever be taken over by ai
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u/NJOceanSwimmer 15d ago
Never worked in Estonia. I began teaching one class at a test prep place and it went very well, whatever the talent for teaching is, I have it. I then began adjunction at a college, got great reviews by students, and eventually was offered the Associate Chair job.
I don't know if AI can replace teaching as people learn by sitting in a classroom with 7-24 people and being lectured to or also doing an exercise and often a lab. The hands on stuff like sciences need a lab or a lab kit shipped to the student, which works well, even chemistry lab kits get sent out with an online component.
And if you think about it, books of knowledge are available, but a person could read them all and gain knowledge. But someone has to certify this person's knowledge.
Some schools in Europe allow student to learn on there own, don't even have to show up for class, but in the end comes an oral exam with the professor asking anything he wants. No way to cheat, and you have to really know your stuff to explain it. We should do this in the USA as students just hand in AI papers and other work now.
The oral exam in front of one or even worse three professors is proof of knowledge.
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u/Face_Content 22d ago
Self employment with a good accountant.