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SOCIAL MEDIA HAS A LOT TO ANSWER FOR. Making us believe extraordinary careers and laidback lifestyles simply fall into people’s laps is certainly one.
As we scroll intermittently through our days, we’re hit with countless images of fabulous-looking lives that seem as unattainable as they are unfathomable. How do these people do it? And, more importantly, how do they pay their bills?
As a travel writer who posts wanderlust-inducing travel photographs on Instagram every other day, Nina Karnikowski is acutely aware of our collective wonder and envy — she says she’s often asked how she actually makes money doing what she does. The next question is invariably: How can I do it too? She argues that we are more capable than ever before of building these kinds of careers and lives — ones we don’t need a holiday to escape from. At a time when we’re able to teach ourselves almost anything online, when we can launch businesses and create websites for next to nothing, and when “our definition
