For teachers who made remote work happen, what specific non-tech role did you start with, and what did you earn?

Teaching full time in Berlin. Summers off, some holidays, but the salary doesn't stretch into a nomad lifestyle without something else coming in. Been looking hard at this for about a year now.

The side hustle research rabbit hole is real. Online tutoring platforms, curriculum writing, course creation. The numbers people throw around vary wildly and half the income claims feel made up. Anyone got actual figures, not the aspirational blog post version.

The job posts thread here got me thinking. Most remote roles seem to assume you have a tech or sales background. Teaching credentials don't translate cleanly into the usual remote job categories, which is frustrating because the actual skills overlap more than job descriptions admit.

Summer is the obvious window to test this. Three months is enough to know if living somewhere cheaper while working online is sustainable or just a long vacation with a laptop open. The question is whether to use that window to build something or just see if remote work is even tolerable before committing further.

What did people in nontech backgrounds actually do to bridge from a stable local salary to something that works while moving. Not the theory. What specifically did you do first.