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You have a job in a USA based startup – in Silicon Valley here<\/p>\n\n\n\n Your job gives you the flexibility to work from anywhere occasionally. Today you are working from Bali.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Last week, the startup secured hundred million dollars of funding for its international expansion<\/p>\n\n\n\n How did you get here?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3 years back, you were struggling to get a well-paying job or good increments in your career – but you decided to take responsibility for your future, and learned high demand, low supply skills. <\/p>\n\n\n\n You approached many US startups in the first month. Eventually, a couple of them replied to you. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Initially, you just started with some book-keeping work on softwares like Quickbooks and Xero, but the rewards looked promising.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You continued outreach, and some of your clients even gave you solid referrals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n After 3 months, you were able to earn around INR 25-30,000 per month, just by working part-time!<\/p>\n\n\n\n It was game on!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Soon, you learned US GAAP accounting and started creating financial MISes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Your clients gave you glowing testimonials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When they needed to raise funding, they needed to rope in an expert for the financial modeling, budgeting and forecasting work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fortunately, you were already prepared and offered to assist! <\/p>\n\n\n\n In 6 months, you were already hitting USD 1000-1200 per month!<\/p>\n\n\n\n By now, a couple of US CPAs whom you had invited to podcasts also engaged you on some US accounting and corporate finance work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Your friends were surprised and jealous, but you were proud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You could do all of this remotely. 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