A corporate lawyer-turned-traveler shares the 7 biggest misconceptions people have about her 8 years on the road

When Jodi Ettenberg quit her job as a New York corporate lawyer to travel in 2008, she planned to return to the law a year later.

Now it's been eight years, and her life in the legal profession and in New York remains firmly in the past.

Ettenberg continues to roam from place to place, documenting her adventures in her popular blog, Legal Nomads.

She sustains her travels through multiple income streams, including sales from her online store, freelance writing, social media consulting, and more recently, speaking appearances at summits and conferences around the world.

While Ettenberg always had the desire to roam around the world, she never thought that starting a blog would lead to a lifestyle of long-term travel.

But after she discovered that many of her readers share her fascination with street food and its history, Ettenberg began to use her blog as a platform that would allow her to continue traveling eight years later.

Business Insider recently spoke with Ettenberg about some of the biggest misconceptions that she'd encountered from people while living a life on the road.