Almost 30, would like to travel

Mrs Garth Brooks

I will be 30 in a few months. I have just finished a course I have always wanted to do.

I have been looking for work and had one interview. I didn't get the job.

Now I have been thinking how much more do I wait. It gets depressing.

I have been thinking to give it until christmas applying for jobs in ireland and the uk. But if nothing comes up, I would like to get out of here.

I have been on a job site and there is work available in australia which sounds good. But not sure how it all works, how much money, visas, and everything. I still have a bit of savings left (about 4k) but probably not enough.

Should I? What are other people's experiences? Is it easy to get work before leaving.

QueenBee1

If you want to travel then I advise you to go now. You have your degree and nothing stopping you. If you leave it you wont be able to go as you will be too old. I dont mean this in a bad way but they are the terms of the WHV in Aus and NZ. You only live once make the most of it

Sleepy

Can't advise on the practicalities but in your shoes I'd be gone like hot snot tbh.

Ickle Magoo

There are numerous "Abroad" forums and some have dedicated threads for questions about working/moving/travelling there - you can find them HERE

FlashD

If you are looking to work and travel abroad, for example Australia, you need to have applied for your working holiday visa before you hit 30.

As a matter of urgency you need to start looking into it now, the quotas are getting filled really quickly from when I went a number of years ago. I know that the 2013 Canadian WHV quota is already full, not sure about Australia but its already halfway through the year and probably filling quickly.

The vast majority who go to Australia just go, and organise work when they get there though recruitment companies, etc. That's for those qualified as professionals.

hdowney

I'd go. Just jump. The dump this country is in you couldn't do any worse by going for it in my opinion. I am waiting myself to see what happens in july (I was in college studying to become a chef last year, had to defer due to illness, waiting to see if I get offered my place back this year). If I don't get back into college I am gone by January I would think

kronsington

i turned 30 last xmas and im hoping to travel early next year for a few months. i had the chance to go away for a year a few years ago but decided to stay put and focus on my law exams- only now have i got through the process and qualified. i just feel if i dont do something like this soon enough, i never will. i dont want to be 40 and say **** i should have gone then. 6 months or whatever isnt a long time so see some of the world, which is what i hope to do. i dont have kids, mortgage or gf/wife so theres nothing holding me back- except money. unfortunately im leaving my job at the end of the month and obv need cash before i would head away. easier said than done so hopefully ill sort something else soon enough. i say if yo have the chance and theres nothing keeping you here, just go for it.

Piliger

You could always actually start a business instead of waiting for a job to be offered to you ..... ?

looksee

Piliger wrote: »

You could always actually start a business instead of waiting for a job to be offered to you ..... ?

Piliger, have you started a business yourself?

fascination

Do it! I went travelling for a year at 28. No regrets at all.
By the way, if you decide to get a working holiday visa for Oz, you have until your 31st birthday - it's 18-30 inclusive. Best of luck!

Mrs Garth Brooks

Definitely, im going if i don't get work. I would like a change. I think i have enough for what they want in the bank account. I just have to save for flights really. So i probably go sometime next year, march or april, so it gives me loads of time.

I have been reading up about it and the only thing that is putting me off is you can't stay longer than 6 months with the one employer. So i am not sure how easy it is to get work.

FlashD

fascination wrote: »

By the way, if you decide to get a working holiday visa for Oz, you have until your 31st birthday - it's 18-30 inclusive. Best of luck!

Apoligies to Fascination and the OP for my misinformation

Editing my post as I stand corrected.

If you have until your 31st birthday that is plenty of time to apply.

fascination

FlashD wrote: »

To clarify, because this makes no sense.

You have until your 30th birthday to apply for the visa.

Once the visa is granted, you have one year from the visa date to enter Australia ............not until your 31st birthday as this poster states.

Hi FlashD, you can apply up until your 31st birthday then use it within a year of it being granted.
http://www.immi.gov.au/visitors/working-holiday/417/

I have been considering it lately, like the OP, so was glad to discover that I had some more time to avail of it.