Writers can work from just about anywhere, so why not work from everywhere? Meet some “digital nomads” who are making a living while exploring the world—and find out how you could become one of them.
Germans have a wonderfully literal way with words. Even if you aren’t fluent, you surely understand wanderlust, the deep desire to travel. The German word for homesickness, heimweh, translates to “home ache.” There’s even a word for the opposite of homesickness, fernweh, which goes even deeper than wanderlust: It describes an ache to be far away.
I write this from a bright, airy cafe in central Berlin, near the flat where I’ve been living for the past few months. My path to becoming an international freelancer for hire began almost two decades ago, when I was an exchange student living in Germany’s Rust Belt. I loved the language, I loved the people, and years later, when I quit my day job to pursue full-time freelancing, it was with the idea that I’d live abroad again —somewhere, somehow.
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