Remote Profile: Laura Hansen — Remote Year

When I heard about Remote Year from a friend, I thought it was the perfect situation for me. I’ve been doing freelance design for the past two and a half years, which has allowed me the freedom to travel and work from wherever I wanted to. So coming across an organization that enabled me to do both, AND meet some incredibly amazing, like-minded people, along the way, seemed too good to be true! I just HAD to sign up!

 

WHAT ARE YOU WORKING ON FOR THE YEAR?

I have about 30+ clients, in varying industries, scattered all around the globe. So my work can range from branding for a winery in California, to web design for a New York production company, to business collateral for a real-estate investment company in Australia. I have big projects, small projects, busy months and slow months, and love every moment of it – it doesn’t feel like work to me, at all.

It’s important to have personal projects outside of work as well, so I’ve also started an Art Club and Yearbook Club in RY2, Battuta. I spend a lot of time putting together fun art projects for people in the group (like painting murals and doing drawing classes), as well as organizing a Yearbook that we can have to remember this incredible year we’ve had together.

WHERE HAVE YOU LIVED/TRAVELED TO PREVIOUSLY?

I was born in Wisconsin (Go Pack!), grew up in North Carolina, went to university in Savannah, GA, and have lived in Texas, Washington DC, and most recently, New York City.

I’ve been to forty-six of the fifty states in the U.S. (Iowa, Vermont, North Dakota, and Alaska left to go)! Outside of The States, I’ve been to about eighteen countries with two more to go at the end of Remote Year, and maybe a few more in between.