The world at your fingertips

Have you always wanted to do a Jack Kerouac and get on the road to ‘go it alone’? While the world economy pulls itself back together, now might be your opportunity to tick one big bucket off your list, but it’s a scary step to take. I put the all-important questions to 33-year-old Yorkshire-born digital nomad Emily Milsom, who’s been on the road for five years, working around the world, since quitting her 9-5 in marketing.

Was there a particular moment at your previous job where you thought ‘that’s it, I’m out of here’?

It was two-fold for me: I wanted to travel, and I also couldn’t sustain the nine to five because it made me quite sick and unhappy. Someone had offered me freelance work, which I did for a year while based in Portsmouth so I could build a network and a clientele. But it was only after I got offered contract work from someone else that I went,