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A 22-year-old says she earns a staggering £10,000 a month travelling the world. Check out her tips for travelling on a budget here:
It's the dream, right? Being paid to travel across the globe, climb mountains, and do whatever you want.
Well, that dream is one influencer's reality as she began creating a brand for herself while studying virtually at King's College London, and now she travels wherever she likes.
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Louise Truman said of her incredible occupation: "Becoming a digital nomad was entirely accidental, but nobody around me was surprised.
"It was the best decision I’d ever made."
She currently has 139,000 followers and makes £10,000 a month. But her love for travel is nothing new, as at age 13, she took part and fundraised a scientific expedition to Greenland.
The content creator said: "I went purely so I could spend three weeks trekking across glaciers, climbing mountains, and avoiding the occasional polar bear."
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At 13, we were trying to work out how to stop our Sims from drowning but sure.
From trips as a teen to networking during her degree, Louise picked up skills that proved invaluable for her new career.
She said: "However tough the pandemic was for me mentally, I have never had such an opportunity like that to invest in myself.
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"Over the first six months of lockdown and tentative reopening, I networked like crazy on LinkedIn.
"I picked up two new freelance marketing contracts, learned incredible amounts from mentors, and started a social mobility project to help university students."
And by the time things had started re-opening, Louise was racking in a pretty impressive income.
"I had never seen that much money in my life.
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"During my time working remotely as a marketer, I had one five-figure month," she explained.
Louise then began posting on TikTok, and her income has become more content creation based, with the influencer getting significant amounts from brand deals.
"As a content creator, most of my time is focused on creating content.
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"I do a few brand deals each month – it’s not something I want to oversaturate my socials with – and because these are so well paid, I don’t have to do much to exceed my previous levels of income," she explained.
And, for Louise, it's a way happy way to spend her time, with the influencer saying that she's excited about what's to come: "The best part about that is that as my socials continue to grow, I’ll be able to charge more for the same amount of work.
"It’s already a much happier work-life balance.
"I’m so excited to see where it goes over the next couple of years."
Shola Lee