• I'm a full-time circus performer and often live on the road. • There's very little work-life balance when you essentially sleep at work. • I'm planning my wedding for 2026, and I have to do so in between contracts.

It's 7 a.m., and I'm woken up to a dull thud-thud-thud above me. My dog's ears prick up, alert, ready to defend our home from whatever is persistently trying to force its way in from above. Another thud, followed by a gurgling squawk — it's a gaggle of seagulls divebombing my caravan.

I rub the sleep from my eyes and stumble out of the two-berth caravan into the vast field we have set up to call home for the next week, only to find the little flapping monsters have gotten into my garbage bag and strewn the contents all the way to the entrance of the big top. Fantastic.

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