“When are you going to inquire about taking the exams?”

“Did you know that there’s a great offer for nurses in Saudi?”

“Ask from you cousin. He’ll surely help you.”

Those are the things I hear nowadays from my aunt and parents.

They have been wanting me to get out there and live my life to the fullest. I have been agreeing with them for the longest time.

Except that I don’t know how to do it. I don’t know where to place myself, I don’t know where I would be happy the most because to be honest, nothing makes me happier than travelling different places rather than staying in one place for a long time.

And that is what I feel about migrating because I’m afraid that it would be the thing, that it would just be work then rest then work then rest and no time for any other form of relaxation whatsoever even though that I’ve always thought that that EXACTLY is what I’m going to do when I start working overseas: find fun in and out of work.

I’ve been working as a nurse for 2 years now and ever since I hit the one-year mark, the older ones have been telling me to take up classes and exams as a ticket abroad. I’ve always replied “yes”. Of course I wanted to take off already, but the truth was, I don’t know when, where and how to begin. Those questions have bugged me during another year as an employee and I had only made the slightest effort to find answers.

They gave me so many options, so good actually that I couldn’t pick one: UK, the US, Saudi Arabia, Germany, or Saudi Arabia. When they started enumerating those countries, I began to think of how good it will be to work there, then realization hit me hard that it’s very much impossible for me to work in all of those places. Yes, I can visit them, but I have wanted to work in different places and not just stay.

It all went down when I finally told my parents earlier this year that I haven’t got the faintest idea where I really want to go.  They gave me a 30-minute long sermon before they finally let me consume the whole year before finally deciding where I really wanted to go.

Now that I have 5 months left to decide, it got a bit easier for me to decide, after researching about those countries. The past months haven’t been any help, as my parents still continuously bothering me like they had forgotten their promise not to put pressure but this time, it’s different. I have started to research about the requirements needed to be able to work for these countries and I’m currently working on which is the easiest to comply.

Right now, I’m still figuring out what I wanted to do but for now, the broad spectrum of choices has narrowed down and even though I’m advancing in the slowest way I could possibly be, I’m starting to see the blurred future and I think I know where to start

-claude