4. Trade Specialty, Foreign Goods

Looking to travel and have a little capital to startwith? Consider getting in the import-export trade and head out to exoticcountries to find local, specialty, and handmade goods that will appeal totravel-hungry consumers backhome. Pick up goods that areas are known for (examples include Italianleather, Mexican hammocks, and Turkish ceramics) as well as one-of-a-kindpieces that can't be purchased by the truck full. Once you are back in theU.S., sell them to stores, collectors, and even eBay for a handsome profit。4、卖特产、外国货

想要旅行却只有很少的资金？那考虑一下做进出口贸易吧，可以前往一些异国找些当地的特色，一些手工制品可以吸引本地很少出去旅游的消费者。选择来自有名地域的产品，比如意大利的皮革，墨西哥的吊床，土耳其的陶瓷，以及那些独一无二、无法批量生产的物件。一旦你返回美国，就把它们卖给商店、收藏者、甚至ebay，可以获得不错的利润。

5. Research For A Travel Guidebook

There aren't many professions as romanticized andmisunderstood as researching and writing for travel guidebooks. While the jobis exhilarating —jetting you off to hundreds of places to try the local culture, food, andhotels — the reality of the work is a grind. Most guidebook researchers andwriters report having to meet unrealistic deadlines that require them to work12-to-14-hour days. In addition, seeing the sights is a small part of the job.Researchers and writers must crank out reports and articles, make maps of theareas they visit, and engage in extensive, tedious data entry。

5、为旅行手册做调研

没有很多像为旅行手册做调研和写文章一样被误解为很罗曼蒂克的工作。这工作确实让人感到兴奋，前往数百个地方去感受当地的文化、美食、还有酒店，但事实上，这工作是份苦差。大多数的旅行手册的调研者和写手称他们为赶上不切实际的时间期限要求，不得不一天工作工作12到14个小时。此外，看风景只是工作的一小部分。调研者和写手必须赶出报告和文章，绘制当地的地图，输入大量枯燥的数据。

6. Become A Flight Attendant

If you don't mind taking your travel with a side of9-to-5, a great option could be applying to become a flight attendant. Flightattendants make between $25,000 and $50,000 a year, and they get free travelbenefits for not just themselves but also their families. The pay might soundlow, but consider that the average schedule has attendants working 80 hours amonth。6，成为一名空乘人员

如果你不介意旅行时间在朝9晚5之外，那申请作空乘也是一个不错选择。空乘人员一年收入介于2.5到5万美元之间，而且他们可以获得免费旅行的福利，不仅他们自己，还有他们的家人。收入听着不高，但别忘了，空乘每月只需工作80小时。

7. Work For A Cruise Line

Working on a cruise ship similarly sends you to exoticlocales for pay, yet there are a few key differences. The job comes with longhours for comparably poor pay, but with all expenses paid and free travel. Crewmembers have their own dining halls, shops, Internet cafes, gyms, party areas,and even organized activities, which creates a fun culture. There are numerousjobs on a ship, with certain ones better than others. Washing dishes justdoesn't sound as good as chaperoning passengers on exotic excursions.7、在游轮上工作

在游轮上工作可以直接让你到达异国而且有钱赚，但这也有一些关键的不同。这工作需要很长的时间，薪水比较低，但所有花销免费还有免费旅游。船员有他们自己的餐厅，商店、网吧、健身房、派对场地、甚至有组织的活动、这创造了一种有趣的氛围。一艘游轮能提供大量的工作，工作有好有坏。洗盘子就不如陪同船上的旅客听起来更体面。

8. Start A Travel Blog

Being a professional travel blogger is a tough gig. Whiletraveling to every sight imaginable is a tantalizing part of the job, it takesa lot of work to make it happen. Most travel bloggers spend a year buildingtheir sites, churning out several posts a day and building up a following on social-mediabefore they ever see any money from their sites. To make it all work, you haveto truly love travel and blogging.8、开一个旅游博客

成为一名专业的旅行博主是非常难的。能够去到每个梦想中的地方是工作中诱人的一部分，但它也需要很多工作去做.大多的旅行博主花费一年时间来建网站,每天上传数篇文章,在社交网站上争取追随者,直到他们能从网站中获得收入.要想成功,你必须非常热爱旅行和写博.

9. Work As An Au Pair

An au pair, or an extra pair of hands, is aninternational nanny who lives with a family for a set period, taking care oftheir children in exchange for travel, room, board, and pocket money. It can bea fantastic way to see a new culture from the locals' perspective and make somemoney. Most au pairs are students or recent graduates, so get in before it'stoo late.

9.作帮佣

An au pair,就是帮佣的意思,是指为某个家庭在固定一段时间里做帮佣,照看小孩,以此换取旅行的钱,食宿和零花.。这将是个很棒的方式，即能从当地人的视角来观看一种新的文化，也能赚到钱。大多做国际帮佣的人是学生或是新毕业生，所以趁早做吧。

10. Become A Destination Wedding Photographer

This one requires a bit of skill, but for those with theartistic temperament a wedding-photography business can offer free travel andan outlet for creative expression. It goes without saying that you will have tobe a talented photographer, or at least a well-practiced one.

The wedding business is a competitive one with high entrycosts (think computer, camera, lenses, editing software, portfolio, website,and, possibly, training), but it pays well. Many destination weddingphotographers charge up to $10, 000 a wedding, plus airfare, meals, and incidentals. While you'llbe working hard during the wedding, extend your stay for a few hundred dollarsand you are well paid and traveling free.10做旅行结婚摄像师

这一项需要一点技术，但对于有文青气质的人而言，婚礼摄像师这行业不仅能提供免费旅游，而且是表达创意的途径。这可不代表说你必须得是一名很有天赋的摄影师，但至少你要有经验。婚纱摄影行业竞争激烈，而且门槛高，想想你需要置办电脑、相机、镜头、编辑软件、作品集、网站、可能还需要培训，但是，它的收入高。许多景点婚纱摄像师一次婚礼会收费1万美元，外加机票、餐饮、临时开支。婚礼时你要努力工作，也可以延长所待的时间，这样可以多赚几百美元，这时你就有不错的收入和免费的旅行了。

11. Join The Peace Corps

Joining the Peace Corps is not a decision to be takenlightly. It requires a 27-month commitment in a developing country with fewmodern conveniences and not much opportunity to see friends or family. If youhave a desire to make a difference in the lives of others, the Peace Corps canbe a life-changing and rewarding experience.11、加入和平部队

加入和平部队这事可不能轻率定夺。它要求要在一个发展中国家呆上27个月，而且没有什么现代设施，也几乎见不上朋友和亲人。如果你有和别人过得不一样的愿望，那加入和平部队将是一个改变人生且有回报的选择。

12. Write A Literary Account Of Your Travels

If all else fails (or you are an incredible wordsmith), take a crack at writingthe next "Green Hills of Africa, " "Homage to Catalonia, "or "The Sun Also Rises." If the book does well, you could have a cashcow on your hands in the form of royalties and advance checks. Of course, most would-be authorswill never see a cent from their travels or literary hard work. If you have thecourage to try, you could end up with the traveling lifestyle and your pick ofpublications to print your essays and stories.

12 创作一部关于旅行的文学作品

如果其他选项都不行，或者你是一位不可置信的语言大师，那就试一试写出下一部“非洲的青山”“向加泰罗尼亚致敬”、或是“太阳照常升起”，如果书写的好，稿费和支票都会来，你就有了只现金奶牛了。当然，大多数所谓的作家从他们的旅行和写作中赚不到一分钱。如果你有尝试的勇气，你可以在旅行结束后，找个出版社出版你的文集和故事。

心水第12项，呵呵。

以上是补昨天的作业，以下是今天的content。

What are the best and worst parts aboutstarting your own business?自己创业当老板的苦与乐

Answer by NickLoper, chief side hustler at SideHustleNation.com

SideHustleNation.com的CEO尼克回答了这个问题。

The best part ofrunning your business is that it’s one of the most challenging, rewarding andstressful things you’ll ever do. It’s a completely different ball game fromrelying on someone else for a steady paycheck.自己创业的最大好处是，这将是你做过的最有挑战性、奖励性和压力的事情。这跟依靠别人给发固定薪水完全不同，完全是另一种游戏。

Have you everworked for 100% commission? That’s what ALL small business owners do, everysingle day. If they don’t sell anything, they won’t earn anything. It’s scaryand exhilarating at the same time.你曾经为100%的佣金工作过吗？这可是所有小企业主每一天都在做的事。如果他们卖不出东西，他们就会什么也赚不到。这是很可怕同时又很让人兴奋的事。

At any job, there’sa limit to how much you can earn — a salary “ceiling,” if you will. With yourown business, you can smash through that ceiling if you make the right moves. Thedownside of course is you lose the floor, too.

做任何工作，你的工资都会有个上限，即收入天花板。如果是自己做生意，只要你做对了生意，你可以突破这个天花板。反过来说，当然你可能连底都亏掉。

I love having thefreedom to schedule my days how I see fit, to try out new ideas, and not have aboss to answer to. If that means taking off on a Tuesday to go skiing, awesome.On the flip side,it often means working late into the night and on weekends to take care of animportant job or client.我热爱自己规划每一天做什么事情的自由，尝试新点子，也没有需要去报告的老板。这意味着周二可以去滑雪，这太棒了。但其反面呢，它常常意味着要工作到很晚，而且周末时还要处理重要的工作或接洽客户。

For me, the worstpart of running a business is a lack of direction. By that I mean there’s noone else telling you what to work on or what tasks to prioritize. Everydecision has to be made by you, and it’s stressful.对我而言，自己创业的最坏部分是缺乏指导。我是说没有人可以告诉你该做什么工作，或什么工作是优先的。你自己要做所有的决定，而这很有压力。

The way around that is tobuild a team of people you trust, either within your company or outside it —preferably both. One thing that’s really helped me recently is a mastermind group oflike-minded entrepreneurs, a group to bounce ideas off of and hold each otheraccountable.解决这个问题的办法就是组建一个你信任的团队，无论公司内部或外部的团队，推荐二者都有。最近一个由观念相近的企业家组成的智囊团帮了我一个大忙，这个团队经常交流观点，而且互相承担责任。

Answer by RichardI. Polis, entrepreneur/consultant

Best: Ultimately, everything depends on you.

Worst: Ultimately, everything depends on you.

Answer by Ken W. Green, entrepreneur

企业家/咨询师理查德回答的是：

好处：一切最终都要靠你自己；

坏处：一切最终都要靠你自己。

企业家肯的回答是：

The people you hire. You’ll discover who you hireencompasses the best and worst parts of running a business. I’ve discussed thiswith numerous owners and executives over the past 20 years and we can allagree, finding good people is by far the most challenging aspect of runningand/or managing a business, regardless of size.你雇佣的员工。你将发现你雇佣的员工是你经营中的最好和最坏的部分。过去20年，我曾与无数的企业家、CEO讨论，我们都同意找到好员工是迄今为止自己当领导以来最具挑战性的工作内容，无论规模大小。

Good people arehard to find and your employees really do make a difference, so spend extratime evaluating an applicant before you hire, and create a procedure to quicklyidentify if they will succeed in their position. If not, let them go as quicklyas possible. Unproductive employees will drain you of time, resources and muchneeded money.好员工很难找到，而且员工确实能对企业产生实质的不同影响。所以单独花些时间来评估一个你要雇佣的人，并且创建一个流程以快速地侦别他们是否能胜任其岗位。如果不行，就让他们尽快离开。不具生产力的员工将会拖累你的时间、资源和花销。

Once you hire agood one, you’ll truly know the value of a great employee, and nothing canquite match that. They make all the other pains and hassles seem much smaller too, often timesmaking them disappear altogether. And the best part, you’re able to delegateand assign responsibility, which allows you to focus on the big picture, whichI believe is the best part.一旦你雇到好员工，你将真正明白好员工的价值，且这种价值千金难买。好员工会让其他问题或麻烦变小，甚至时常让问题或麻烦统统消失。而最好的是，你可以委任、分配任务，这让你可以专注于大方向，对我而言，这是最大的好处。

Answer by KenLarson, recipient of SCORE National Achievement Award in Small BusinessCounseling

Starting myenterprise was a logical extension of the work I had been doing as anindividual contractor, so the transition seemed easy enough.

What I had to learnvery quickly was the business planning, marketing and competitive analysisaspects of operating an enterprise, as opposed to negotiating single personefforts. Industry teaming, having others work for me and dealing as a companyinstead of a person were all challenges.

It took roughly twoyears to adjust, develop a client base as a company, and progress toprofitability.

This questionoriginally appeared on Quora: What are the best and worst parts of startingyour own business?肯·拉森，SCORE的小企业咨询全国成就奖得主，他的回答是：开创我的企业是一个情理之内的事，因为我之前就是一个独立的承包商，所以这个转型看起来很容易。我必须要快速学会的是运营企业所需的策划生意、营销、竞争力分析，而非讨论个人能力的问题。行业合作、让他人为我工作、让公司团结一体而非个行其道，这些都很具挑战性。我大概花了两年时间作为公司来适应、开发一个客户群，并且走上盈利之路。这个回答最初出现在Quora:自己开公司的最好或最坏的方面。

Apple's iPhone is golden in China

金色iphone抢滩中国

The dumbest columnI ever wrote was the one that suggested that if Apple wanted to sell a lot ofiPhones in China it should stick with silver.我写过最蠢的一篇专栏就是，我曾建议苹果公司如果他们想在中国卖出大量iphone的话，就该推出银色系的机身。

This was just abouta year ago. Rumors were flying that Apple was about to launch a champagne-goldiPhone because gold was such a prestigious color in China. I went looking formarket research on national color preferences, and the closest thing I could findwas a Dupont chart that showed that the best-selling automobile color in Chinawas silver, not gold.这大概在一年前。当时有传言称苹果将推出香槟黄色机身，因为金黄色在中国是极尊贵的颜色。我去看了关于各国人对颜色偏好的市场调研，还找到杜邦公司的一个图表，上面显示在中国，卖得最好的汽车是白色，而不是金色。

Cars, it turns out,are not the same as phones.但最后证明，汽车跟手机不是一回事。