Let's face it, who hasn't sat at their office desk, mind-numbingly working on a spreadsheet, all the while fantasising about walking out that door and boarding a plane to the nearest tropical destination?

But then we snap back to reality and just carry on doing what we do - because, well, the bills have to get paid somehow.

It's one thing day-dreaming about ditching the 9-to-5, but it's an entirely different thing altogether to actually go out and do it. Yet that's exactly what these five women have done.

Whether it was to pursue a passion or just because they fancied a change, they quit everything to go live abroad, some without a clue of what they were going to do when they got there.

Yet they're all much more fulfilled now and have fully embraced their new lives, whether that means teaching yoga in Abu Dhabi, building sustainable housing in Bali or helping Yazidi women in Kurdistan.

Come be inspired by their Insta adventures...

Lucy Ruthnum, travel blogger, Australia

Meet the five women of Instagram who quit their jobs to live abroad