I was wrong about what I wanted to do for a living

After two years, I continued working on online projects through agencies for major brands, while also freelancing from time to time.

In 2016, I quit my job at an agency to rethink my career path and travel. At that time, friends and previous work colleagues started to ask for my help in different projects, and it started to turn into a fun and consistent reality. Slowly, but consistently, fitting perfectly into my new way of life. Yes, I ended up becoming 100% self-employed organically. 

What is fantastic is that I realised the digital nomad's life became a reality.

Choosing the projects I wanted to work with allowed me to be faithful to my top values. These include learning, respect (especially for my time and the time of others), financial independence, freedom, and family.  

I lived in Canada and Italy, and passed through France, Hungary and Switzerland until deciding to live in London, in 2019. 

From 2015, for 5 years, I was also maintaining a blog about specialty coffee and my experiences around the world in different coffee places, where I used to go as an office. My hobby and, of course, also a laboratory. Nowadays, I keep only the Instagram channel.

After more than 6 years working on 20+ short and long term projects in different markets and languages as self-employed, I've decided to accept a full-time position as Senior Author at Kantar UK, the company I was freelancing for since July 2021. 

What's next? I will figure it out! 

• Check out the first edition of Longevidade magazine, published in August 2021 for a Brazilian client focused on medicine/health care, which I had the honour of being one of the journalists responsible for, invited by my colleague and also journalist Letícia Ghedin.