Travel While You Work: The Ultimate Guide to Running a Business from Anywhere

by Mish Slade

Freelancers are packing up their laptops and setting up shop in Thai cafes and Spanish coworking spaces, while entire companies are realising that they can slash their costs and have happier employees by allowing them to work from wherever they want. Being able to see the world outside of a two-week vacation is pretty great, but it's not just about the travel. It's about doing away with all the constraints of office life - the commute, the cubicle, the bad coffee - and finding freedom in a more flexible way of working and living. Travel While You Work is your guide to how you can make this transition too - whether you're a freelancer or the head of your own company. Over the course of over 300 pages, you'll ... And everything else you need to make "out of office" your permanent reality. Travel While You Work also contains interviews with 13 very different business owners and freelancers - everyone from a management consultant to a circus school owner - sharing their tips for how they make their business work from anywhere in the world. PLUS interviews with three travelling families who successfully balance entrepreneurship and education along with a life of travel. This book won't teach you how to start a business, or what business you should start . But if you want to take an existing business mobile (whether as a solo freelancer or the head of your own company), Travel While You Work will give you all the inspiration, resources and practical guidance you need.

Genres: Travel, Business

358 pages, Paperback

First published August 14, 2015

Reviews

[Oakley Perry · Rating 2 out of 5]

Travel While You Work is a great book if you are looking for a guide. While somethings are a little outdated, one would expect that of a guide that’s got some age on it.

Much of the book is common sense stuff or things you will have read in any other similar style book, but this one does include some unique things. It’s certainly worth the read if you are wanting to explore the concept of becoming a digital nomad.

My main issue is the style of writing. It’s not written in the style of a book, but rather feels as if a collection of blog posts were published in one volume. I would have liked to have seen more care exercised in writing a cohesive and well flowing book instead of it feeling like blog posts.

All that being said, content is easy to find - thanks a little bit to the blog post format that I do not like. The material is meaningful and provides insights, and the interviews in the back of the book were very great. I’d like to read other of Mish’s works to see how she progresses as a writer.

[bibliotekker Holman · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read the author's previous book and liked it. Both books are focused guides to current tools and techniques based on the author's experiences and worth the small price in Kindle. This book will have you thinking differently about the nature of work and place. Even if you are only working away from home for short burst of travel, this book is filled with useful advice to stay connected on the move.

[Lexane · Rating 4 out of 5]

Useful and practical, the book didn't make me waste my time reading it. Bonus points for not being too US- and UK-centric.