Hi, I'm Meg
Former solicitor, current freelance consultant, full-time believer that there is a version of work and life that doesn’t have to revolve around the 9-5.
If you’re reading this, something probably isn’t working. Maybe it’s the commute. Maybe it’s the hours. Maybe it’s just the creeping sense that you’ve been very good at building a life that looks right on paper and feels wrong in practice. I’ve been there. That’s exactly why I started this.
In 2021, my boyfriend Aaron and I quit our jobs in law, packed up the house and booked three months in Cyprus. It felt equal parts exciting and terrifying. Mostly terrifying, if I’m honest. I cried for weeks before we left, and sobbed when we sold our things and packed the rest into boxes. I had no idea what to expect and I was essentially removing everything that felt safe and familiar.
We’d both been in law long enough to know it wasn’t quite right. I’d fallen into being a solicitor rather than chosen it, and by the time I was qualified I’d never really stopped to ask whether it was what I actually wanted. I didn’t hate it, but I had no drive to climb the ladder either. Aaron was in a similar position. He liked the firm, liked the people, but didn’t want to do it forever. We were both at that point where the sensible next steps were mapped out in front of us and neither of us particularly wanted to take them.
So we decided to take a leap. You can read more about why we did it here.
Five years on, we’re still doing it. It has been amazing, and it has been hard graft, and it has been completely worth it.
It didn’t happen overnight and it wasn’t a straight line. I started this journey earning £12 an hour, after years on a solicitor’s salary. It was terrifying and anxiety-inducing in a way that is difficult to describe. But we bounced between countries, lived on a budget, took whatever remote work we could find, and we felt free. I remember working from cafes in Limassol and eating lunch on the beach, thinking this is amazing. I genuinely didn’t care what I was earning. Over time, the work got better, the lifestyle got more deliberate, and what started as an escape turned into something we were actually building on purpose – essentially, we got better at building a lifestyle that we wanted.
These days we’re based in Bansko, a small mountain town in Bulgaria that has become one of the best places in Europe to live and work remotely. We have our routine, our favourite coffee shop, and a coworking space around the corner. We still travel, but slowly, on our own terms, with our work taken care of.
Work-wise, I consult on business development for law firms, where my legal background still gets used, entirely on my own terms. I also work with smaller businesses on their marketing, operations and growth, which I genuinely love. I would never have known that had I stayed in law. I’d spent so long inside a legal bubble, convinced I wasn’t qualified for anything else, and that was one of the things that made starting so difficult.
Aaron took a different route. He’s a freelance solicitor, advising clients on property matters just as he always did, but now entirely on his own terms, from wherever he happens to be. He kept the career, left the firm, and it has worked out better than either of us imagined.
What is this website about?
Not the Instagram version of freedom, where someone has made a few Canva templates and is telling you that you can quit your job by Friday. Not the version where freedom means working from a sun lounger, nor the one where you have to become the next Richard Branson and live the dream from a yacht in the Caribbean.
I am talking about the real, and some might say ordinary, version. Where you figure out how to earn a proper living while reclaiming your time, your energy and your choices.
Who is this website for?
I write for people who are a bit like the person I was in 2020. Professionals in their late twenties or thirties, wondering if the life they’ve built is actually the one they want. Maybe you want to travel. Maybe you don’t. Maybe you just want more time for the people and things that matter to you, or a little more flexibility in your day.
Over the last five years I’ve worked from seventeen countries, won clients and lost them, had my income halved overnight and had stretches where everything clicked. I’ve built a freelance practice from a laptop and figured out, slowly and sometimes painfully, what actually works. I’m still figuring it out, and I’ll be honest about that here too.
None of it required me to be exceptional. It just required me to be willing to start before I felt ready. The hardest part of this whole thing is doing it scared. I cried like a baby before we began, and I did it anyway. You can too.
If you’re curious about making that kind of change, or you’ve already started and are trying to make it work properly, you’re in the right place.
What you'll find here
Whether you are thinking about going freelance, figuring out remote work, or just trying to understand what a slower, more intentional way of living actually looks like in practice, this is the place to start.
The Digital Nomad Hub is where I cover the practical side of remote working life, finding clients, managing your time, choosing where to base yourself and making the whole thing financially sustainable.
The Travel Hub is where I share the places I have actually lived in and worked from, with an honest take on what each one is really like, not just a list of pretty cafés.
And if you want to know more about Bansko specifically, this is the place I have written most about . Start with Meg’s Digital Nomad Guide to Bansko.
Where to start
If you’re at the beginning and trying to work out where to even start, read my post 10 Things I wish I knew before becoming a digital nomad.
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