Online Careers: The Wireless Generation Drew & Christine Gilbert - Almost Fearless
go to original August 22, 2012

A documentary about a new generation of people who are taking their careers online in order to travel the world is in the works.

The internet has changed everything. Not just how we work, but where. Working from home in the US has increased dramatically in recent years and they estimate that by 2016, 63 million Americans will work from home at least part time.  

We wanted to look at the edges of this movement, the people who are not just working from home and keeping the status quo, but those who are taking this new freedom - the opportunity to choose to live anywhere without having to consider workplace location - and what happens next.

If you shift your life from being centered around where you to work, to being centered around how you want to live, what happens?  Where would you go if you could go anywhere in the world?

We followed the stories of 18 individuals who take work from home to the next level.  They're living abroad, traveling, experiencing things that they would have never have seen if they worked in a traditional office.  This is the first generation of people who realistically can hold a 9-5 job and travel around the world at the same time.

We call these people The Wireless Generation.

We interviewed people across five continents including:

• a sociology professor teaching online from Thailand
• a financial analyst for American Express backpacking across South America
• a family of four traveling with their kids across Asia as they build websites for their clients back home in Australia
• a day trader living in Colombia
• an internet entrepreneur who only works a few hours a month and spends the rest volunteering in places like Haiti and Rwanda

These people have each found ways to make the ultimate dream of traveling the world possible - while keeping their careers. All it takes is a good wifi connection, a little creativity and the desire to do something different.

About the filmmakers

This film is brought to you by husband-wife team Drew & Christine Gilbert. Drew is an animator with degree in Animation/Media Arts from the Art Institute of Philadelphia and has been telling stories with video and animation online over the past twelve years. Christine is a writer and photographer whose work has been seen in BBC Travel, Esquire, Rough Guides, and Lonely Planet. They've been working online and traveling the world together since 2008. In 2010 they had a baby, kept traveling, and their son now been to more countries as a toddler, than Drew and Christine visited by age 30.

This is a project we love

We have been traveling around the world for TWO YEARS filming these stories. We went to five continents. We went to Burning Man! With a baby! We traveled thousands of miles to capture these fascinating characters in exotic locations, and now we want to complete our film and share it with as many people as possible. The Kickstarter campaign will enable us to not only complete the editing of the film, but most importantly to share it, which we hope will inspire others to take the leap to live their life with adventure and passion.

We are pitching film festivals and also want to set up screenings around the US, so as many people as possible can see it.

We want to tell this story.

Check it out at Kickstarter and see how you can get involved.

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The Wireless Generation: Sneak Peek

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