Should I stay or should I go?

[glowing_fish]

Since I have some new readers, and also as an update

Comments

[_antisocialite_]

hmm I think you should stay. Assuming you could get a new job there when your current gig is up? At some point in the future you will have too much baggage or too many responsibilities to live overseas. Take advantage of it now. :D

[glowing_fish]

Well, its not a matter of getting a different job, as much as getting another job...or three

[beauty_forashes]

Sometimes things are a back and forth. When do you have to decide, by Christmas?

[glowing_fish]

Not exactly any set date, but Christmas is when summer vacation begins, and there is usually a drop off in work at that point. My work doesn't guarantee any hours or pay in that period. Then, classes start up again around March.

My original plan was to spend January and maybe a bit of February travelling around the country, and also avoiding the Northern Hemisphere winter.

[beauty_forashes]

That sounds like a great plan as long as you have the chance. :)

[meowmensteen]

Go. I've had jobs I hated, but also helped me grow a lot. Ultimately though, how much growing is really worth it if you're miserable. Despite learning a lot from my last job, I'm so much more happier since I left. I was going to burn out if I kept going at it.

[glowing_fish]

I am not really miserable, in fact I am happy...for now. But stresses could pop up. Like, right now the irregular hours and doing new things is still fun, but it could get very unfun. There is also the question of money.

[manue7a]

I'd say go. New opportunities and challenges make you grow as well.

[glowing_fish]

That is true! There might be a lot waiting for me back in the United States!

The thing is, right now, I don't know what, and any move into the US seems like it would be a move backwards. Like, right now my only solid plan of what I would do in the US would be living with my mom until she gets tired of me.

The jobs I could get at this point seem like marginal ones...that would involve having to relocate for part-time work. So I am comparing all of that against a situation where I am still learning and growing.

[manue7a]

And what about moving somewhere else?

[glowing_fish]

I've also thought of that, and want to do that long term.

The reason I didn't want to do it is that when I came here, I was in a hurry, and so I took the first job I got offered. Not that I regret it, but things could have been more easy if I had had time to consider my options. So, like, going from Chile to South Korea without a break might be a really tiring thing for me to do. Going to the US and being able to spend some time off will give me the time to collect myself.

Is the theory. I don't know, maybe I should?