Should I stay or should I go

Wallflower1980

I'm looking for some advice as I'm really unsure of what to do. I'm 28 and finished college 2 years ago. I'm a nurse and my plan after college was to work for a while and then go travelling for a year come back find a place of my own etc, but I kept putting it off for some reason or other and now with the way things are economically i have no support or encouragement from my family in my wishes to travel. My father thinks I'm stone mad if I go.

I've applied for a leave of absence from work and have organised a Visa for Oz, but there's a huge possibility that i may not have a job when i come back. With the country in this state am i being selfish? I am willingly prepared to give up my job. Is that not crazy? Should I risk it? If I don't go now, I know i never will and I'll probably go crazy anyway. If I continue as I am, I know I'm going to be very unhappy and maybe even hate my life.

I've no commitments here and it feels like I'm using the recession as an excuse.

t0mm

Do it. Live a little, you might even be able to move out there, who knows. You've argued it yourself, you should go.

drunkmonkey

GO, GO, GO it's one of the best things you'll ever do... go as soon as possible before your money runs out...

R.D. aka MR.D

Go or else you might end up regretting it. you don't know what might happen to you in the next five years so go now.


If your worried about it then just remember that you have to take a few risks and if they don't work out then you can cross that bridge when you come to it.

as the old saying goes its better to regret something you have done than something you haven't (obviously not true in every case but i think fitting in this one)

Good luck and have an amazing time!

funnyname

Go, have a ball, you'll love it!

lg123

GO, i am in similar situation, see ya out there in a few months

LegacyUser

You should definitly go. I am in a very simalar situation my self. I have been planning it for the past few years, but for a few different reasons have put it off, mainly promotions in work and thinking i was mad to leave the oppurtunity. But i have realised these were all excuses cos i was scared of going.

Im not in the situation where i hate my job so much i am depressed and have to go, but i am getting mixed reactions from people. Some telling me to go, and others worried that it wont work out and ill come back to being on the dole. i cant tell my mum about the depression cos she will worry about me going off on my own while dealing with it, but my doctor has told me its the best thing for me. My parents are worried it wont work out and like yours think i am mad to leave my job in this time! But at the end of the day you know you will regret it, and im telling you, you do not want to find yourself in the position i am in where if you dont go, in a years time, you may hate getting out of bed in the morning and going to work, and despise every single moment you spend there and spend all your spare time thinking abut how unhappy it makes you.

So go, ignore everyone else and just do what is right for you! Everything you do has risks, but dont have any regrets in your life! Hope it all works out for you!

lady_j

I went travelling 2007/2008 and came back to this economic mess. Essentially my life is your fear! Yes coming home to the dole is a very depressing experience, however that year travelling was the best experience of my life. I don't regret it for one second, my only regret was not travelling longer. Go, have fun, as you're a nurse you will have no problem getting a job as a nurse in Australia, even now. And you'll make a packet, be able to choose your own hours, you probably won't want to go home! Best of luck

KM56

you should go. sure why would you want to stay in a depressing place while you can jet off the oz. you only live once like.

plus your a nurse.....they are always needed wherever you are.

enjoy oz

Wallflower1980

Thanks to everyone who replied it was all exactly what I was hoping to hear. I really do have to take a risk, one thing i was never good at. I'd rather it all be a mistake -that i could handle more than regrets down the line.:)

Tom Trojan

"Should I stay or should I go?" (Old song lyrics?)

"My father thinks I'm stone mad if I go." Wise man during recession.

minidazzler

Go, get out, you will get a Job in Oz as a Nurse. Your Da, is just a bit old fashioned!!!! Go on!!! Get out!!! and Enjoy yourself!!!