Derrick Morgan Jr. will soon be starting a backpacking trip across Europe, which includes seeing the World Athletics Championships in Hungary. And even while he's touring countries like Croatia, Monaco, Italy, and Iceland, he will still be able to work.
That's because he's a freelance trademark attorney.
"The ability to set my own schedule is great," Morgan told Insider. "I'm going to Europe next month, and I am working through it, but I don't have to, if I didn't want to."
He said he's already been to almost a dozen countries this year.
"I have the ability to have location independence, which is huge for me," he said. "Back in the day — two, three years ago, I would've taken an office job happily. But now, since I've had this taste of freelancing and what I can do with it, I just could never see myself going into an office."
Morgan lands freelance work through the freelance-site Fiverr, where his starting price for different trademark services vary. At first, he thought this work would help him pay small bills while he stayed at his then-full-time job at a law firm, but he was able to earn a lot quickly and eventually switched to freelancing...
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