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Matador sits at the intersection of travel and career, with many on our staff and in our community working as location-independent professionals. Using their experiences, we’ve produced guides to help you select, initiate, and advance careers that support and even enable your travels.

Most of the articles below discuss strategies on how to break free of the 9-to-5 cubicle gig and use your writing, photography, filmmaking, and other skills to fund your travels.

You’ll also find practical advice, such as how to make travel look good on a resume and whether a career break is the right move for you.

You have to make freelancing into a full-time job, even when it isn’t.
There will be a lot of uncertainty once you transition into freelancing.
As “my own boss,” I don’t have to ask myself if I can start work at 11:30 am.
As Ira Glass himself said, we're living in a golden age for audio producers.
If you do work on the road, your tools are what allow you live “freely.”
I called myself a freelancer, but I was more like a prostitute.
The idea of skipping college altogether is still highly controversial.
First, everyone will tell you it’s impossible. That’s just part of the process.
Dear Sirs: I regret to inform you that it's not working out.
Yes, you can be successful with a literary background.
Your resource guide to dropping out of the workforce and joining the vagabonding masses.
We need a new way of thinking about things.
One in four young professionals think working for Google is their dream job.
Kickstarter, and other crowd-funding websites, offer new ways for creative projects to...
High school students should know all their options.
Sometimes it just takes awhile to figure stuff out.
Nick Rowlands wanders into an employment agency woefully unprepared.
Lisa Rogak explains why she loves driving a hearse, and how to go about buying one...
From matchmakers to the milkman, and pagers to PDAs, 20 jobs, goods and services that are...
Don't forget to breathe, and other tips for a healthier workplace.