career

10 Remote Jobs With No Experience Required (and How to Land Them)

Last updated on March 6th, 2023 at 05:06 am

Remote work is here for good.

When you’re not bound by geography or time zone, you have functionally an unlimited number of job opportunities. But if you’ve never worked for a remote company:

Where do you start?
What jobs are good?
Which ones pay well?
Which ones are scams?
Where do you find these jobs?
How do you stand out when you’re competing with anyone with Internet access?

In the last 10 years, I worked 4 different jobs in different industries (Hollywood, online education, technology). These jobs had two things in common:

They were all remote
I had no experience in any of the roles

But along the way, I met other ambitious people who followed this alternative career trajectory. They made remote work a critical component of their careers. They started with little to no experience. And many were also breaking into the tech industry for the first time.

Remote jobs with no experience required

Reflecting on our combined experiences, I realized: there are great remote jobs with no experience required out there. You just need to know what they are, where to find them, and how to stand out when applying. That’s what we’ll cover in this post.

First, we’ll talk about remote jobs to avoid.

Next, we’ll dig into 10 remote jobs with no experience required.

Finally, you’ll also learn principles to stand out when applying for ANY remote job.

career

The Passion Economy, The Gig Economy, and The Difference

Last updated on November 3rd, 2021 at 03:45 am

The future of work is here. And it’s neither the golden age, nor the Hunger Games of our generation.

Li Jin of a16z thoroughly broke down the future of work here. Some highlight reel stats:

The top-earning writer on newsletter platform Substack earns $500,000+ a year from reader subscriptions
The top creator on video course platform Podiaa earns $100,000+ a month
One of the top creators on artist platform Patreon earns $95,000+ a month (source)

technology

Social Media Hasn’t Changed People. It’s Just Leveled the Playing Field

Last updated on November 3rd, 2021 at 10:44 am

On average, 18,950 people visit the Eiffel Tower each day.[note]Number of Visit to the Eiffel Tower Remains High in 2015 | http://presse.toureiffel.paris/number-of-visits-to-the-eiffel-tower-remains-high-in-2015/[/note] But at 7:30 on a Thursday morning, you can beat most of them and get an unobstructed look at the monument from Place du Trocadéro, free of the throngs of selfie sticks and peddlers pushing tchotchkes.

hollywood

The End of The Golden Age of Television and Why Content is No Longer King

Last updated on November 3rd, 2021 at 10:50 am

Cable television, we had a good run.

The “Third Golden Age of Television” — the influx of creator-driven dramas on cable and premium channels — was spectacular. Men (it was mostly men) changed the television landscape with shows like The Wire, The Shield, The Sopranos, Mad Men, Breaking Bad, and Game Of Thrones. These were some of the best TV series to watch.

marketing

Yes, Snap can still beat Facebook/Instagram. Here’s how.

Last updated on November 3rd, 2021 at 03:33 am

If Snap wanted to juice user growth, they could.

technology

How Zuckerberg Fixes Facebook in 2018

Last updated on November 3rd, 2021 at 03:31 am

For his 2018 New Year’s resolution, Mark Zuckerberg vowed to fix Facebook.

From his post: “Today feels a lot like that first year. The world feels anxious and divided, and Facebook has a lot of work to do — whether it’s protecting our community from abuse and hate, defending against interference by nation states, or making sure that time spent on Facebook is time well spent.

“My personal challenge for 2018 is to focus on fixing these important issues. We won’t prevent all mistakes or abuse, but we currently make too many errors enforcing our policies and preventing misuse of our tools. If we’re successful this year then we’ll end 2018 on a much better trajectory.”

marketing

How My 16-Year-Old Cousins Use Instagram

Last updated on November 3rd, 2021 at 03:27 am

I have a ton of younger cousins and second-cousins (which is what happens when your mom is #7 of 7 children and your dad is #4 of 4).

We were talking about how they used social media, and how completely different it was from how I (and my peers) use it. (Mary Choi takes an amazing in-depth look teen behavior on social media here.)

Here are my notes on how they use social media:

1. “I don’t have Facebook.”

She never got into it. And if she’s not into it, that tells me her friends probably aren’t on there either. Instead, her first social app was Instagram.

2. She curates on Instagram.

In other words, she has less than 50 photos on her account. She’s probably posted at least a hundred more, but she goes back and deletes posts.

How does she decide which posts to delete? If they don’t get enough likes. If it’s no longer a reflection of how she sees herself (“I had a bunch of photos of when I was in middle school, why would I want anyone to see that? And my first photo was a cup of yogurt. Like, why?”)

In other words, Instagram is a snapshot of who she is NOW.

Compare that to how I (and many peers) use Instagram: As an archive of everything we were and are, told through filters.

3. How does she know whether to like or delete a photo?

“Today, if a photo gets less than 100 likes, I’ll probably delete it (she has about 250 followers and a private account). It used to be 50 likes, more lately I’ve been getting a lot more.”

marketing

How a Fortune 100 Company Uses Social Media

Last updated on May 28th, 2018 at 03:10 pm

Over the last few weeks, my role at I Will Teach has morphed and I’ve been doing a lot more bootstrapped content marketing. In other words, “write more content and find ways to spread it without a budget.”

To learn how other people and companies do this, I had a coffee meeting with a social media strategist at a Fortune 100 company.

It was really interesting to learn about how “the big boys” do it. 99% of the time I study content or social media marketing, it’s from solopreneurs or small businesses, so it was cool to get insights from outside that bubble.

Here are 5 quick takeaways from our conversation (I’m omitting the name of the company and the strategist because I didn’t ask permission to include it in these notes).

Publish on native platforms

If you’re sharing a video, publish it to both Youtube AND Facebook (instead of loading it to Youtube and then copying the link to Facebook). The algorithm is kinder to native content.

Same is true with Twitter. Load the media (video, photo, etc.) to Twitter, don’t rely on automation tools like Zapier and IFTTT to push content across all your platforms.

In other words, don’t be lazy when publishing social media content.