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Wanting to go Abroad

  • 05-02-2009 11:45pm
    #1
    Twilightning
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,901 ✭✭✭


    (Apologies if this shouldn't be here, didn't think anywhere else was appropriate)

    After having lived in this country for pretty much all of my young life it's crossed my mind that maybe leaving the country for a year for a change of scenery would be appealing. My 18th birthday is in a couple of weeks and I have €2,500 coming my way, so I was thinking I could maybe get over to California for a year after my Leaving and take a year out to work.

    I have a contact in California, just out of San Francisco, with whom I could live so accommodation wouldn't be an issue. Just I'd have doubts about the whole thing as a whole as attaining a job over there might be difficult, although I suppose you could say that about most countries at the moment. That and I know the Americans are fairly strict about who comes and goes out of their country, I know there'd be alot to get around there too.

    The idea literally came to be about an hour or so ago so I haven't exactly thought it through for an extended amount of time but I'm hoping you could help me with that.

    Any advice on any issues I might encounter along the way here?


Comments

  • #2
    Naked Lepper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,530 ✭✭✭Naked Lepper


    you wont be able to get a work visa for the usa. try australia.


  • #3
    elambra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 101 ✭✭elambra


    What about the new 12 months USA visa for school leavers and recent grads hmm?


  • #4
    Party Central
    Closed Accounts Posts: 49 ✭Party Central


    elambra wrote: »
    What about the new 12 months USA visa for school leavers and recent grads hmm?


    Link??


  • #5
    The Corinthian
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,777 ✭✭✭✭The Corinthian


    You might consider going to somewhere other than the US, or even a non-Anglophone nation.

    Different parts of the EU have been hit differently by the present economic crisis and you will not need to apply for either a work or residency permit and be covered by their health care. Plus you can TEFL and may well come back with an extra language.


  • #6
    blow69
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 668 ✭✭✭blow69


    This is your best bet.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055381254

    It's called a J Visa. Unlike the J1 visa, it allows you to work for a year in the USA and you don't need to be in college. A trade or a Leaving Cert will suffice.

    If you can do it and really want to, then just do it. You will probably have the time of your life, you will mature and maybe decide what you want to do with your life when you come back to the reality that is *this* place:D

    Good luck!


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