With the ubiquity of the Internet for global communication, it's easier than ever to earn money from anywhere. We just have to learn skills for work that can be done online.

There're many kinds of these skills. Examples of things that can be done online include writing, web development, graphics or web design, and much more.

We'll look at some websites that'll help learn the skill you need to get a remote job or gig and start your remote work career.

Udacity

Udacity has many courses that can be completed online. Many of the courses are for programming and other technology-related skills. Each course is completed online through tutorials and videos. It costs several hundred dollars per course. Non-programming technology courses include cloud computing, data science, and artificial intelligence. Other courses including business administration courses like marketing.

Courses are grouped into certificate programs call nanodegrees. Each nanodegree consists of a few courses.

The most common kind of job that can get remote jobs or gigs is probably software development courses, so take those and you're set. Cloud computing can also be done online. These mostly come as DevOps roles. DevOps requires programming and system administration skills, so they both have to be learned, and both are available through Udacity.

Udemy

Udemy has courses created by experienced professionals in many kinds of topics. Most courses are much more affordable as they're in the $10 to $20 range usually. You can search for the courses you want and then sign up.

The courses are available as videos so they're more passive. You have to practice the things you watched to gain proficiency.

There're more varieties of courses than Udacity as the courses can be made by anyone. Therefore, you should check the reviews to see if they're good before ordering.

SkillShare

SkillShare is a community with over 20000 classes in design, business, technology and more. It's a subscription-based site that offers free and premium plans. There're over 1500 free classes, so there's a lot to start with without paying a cent.

Lynda

It's another site with online video courses that lets us learn about various things like technology and the like. Once again, we have to subscribe to this platform to gain access to the courses.

Coursera

Coursera has both university courses and organization courses. You can earn a degree online or just take a few courses. You have to pay to submit the exercises and get a certificate but you can audit them for free.

The courses are taught by top instructors all over the world so there's a lot of benefits to taking courses from this platform.

Conclusion

There're many courses you can take online to get an online job. If the courses and exercises can be done online then the skills can often be used with an online job. Just try some courses until you find one that you're good at and use that skill to start your remote work career.