Lol, that username: I'm in Northern Italy.

Before moving here I worked as a high-level commercial real estate paralegal: drafting LPA's, reviewing pre-acquisition due-diligence, and doing fund management for an institutional real estate investor back in the states...I have thought about doing real estate capital sourcing here as an alternative, and there's a construction boom happening in Milan at the moment. It's just that it would be a lot of lead time before payday and potentially years of work before knowing if it's a success, plus my general lack of interest in learning/keeping abreast of international finance regs. I also don't really care for the whoareyouandhowexpensiveisyourwatch-ism of Milanese banking/legal culture. So those are pretty much the reasons I've discounted it.

Other ideas I've thrown around are: real estate investment seminars on lake como (together with NY and Italian brokers licenses I could really get something cooking), YouTube-assisted Art dealing (there are some specific issues there relating to exporting Italian art), Italian language US political commentator...in short there are some decent possibilities outside of practicing law, but man would it be easier (and more immediately remunerative) if I could just do what I've trained my entire adult life to do.