A consultant in media and communications, Andrea Petkovic swapped a real office in Zagreb for a virtual one and started working and traveling around the world. After six months travelling around Southeast Asia and Australia she ended up in New York.
After a long distance relationship of four years, Molly Hawkins made the big move abroad to be with her American husband. She tells us more about being a British expat living in Ohio.
Pola Henderson was less than three years old when she first travelled long distance and has been fond of jetting around ever since. She started blogging in 2010 and currently juggles her passion for globetrotting with a day job in marketing communication.
The Churchill Fellowship is once again handing out grants to enable British, Australian and New Zealand citizens to follow their passions and travel overseas.
Juliet needs a secretary. She gets thousands of letters from around the world in many languages but cannot handle them on her own because she killed herself after her husband, Romero, committed suicide after mistakenly thinking she had.
This interviewee wished to remain anonymous but blogs about her permanent impermanence as Ersatz Expat. A few years ago she and her husband decided to have an adventure and took the children and the dogs to live abroad, firstly in Kazakhstan and then Sarawak.
Circumstance dictated that Graeme Swift spend only half the year in Bali with his Balinese wife and their son. Between them they managed their holiday villa rental business while Graeme also worked in the UK as a freelance business English teacher.
Working out of ski equipment stores, the boot fitter is interested in shoes, insoles and their fit.
Irish pubs are a great way to plug into the local expat network, enjoy the craic and perhaps get word on any work going locally, but they can be a good source of employment abroad in themselves.
