My recent few weeks of fairly eventful holidays has been a good period for me to re-evaluate where I'm heading in the next few years. It started with one week in Beirut leading up to Christmas with my parents and family. Then I spent a week in Egypt before my girlfriend surprised me by arriving in Egypt on the day following New Years Day. Then she came with me back to Yemen for the remainder of her 1 month break.
Unfortunately though, because of her surprise arrival, I had already taken 2 weeks holiday from work for travel to Lebanon and Egypt and I wasn't able to take the 2 or 3 weeks we had arranged I would take when she came to visit me at the halfway point of coming to Yemen. So instead I tried to keep on working and studying while she was here and then spend one weekend visiting Shaharah, take her all around Sana'a during the nights and then after a week or so, go somewhere extra like Hadhramout, Aden or Hodayda/Kamaran Island. But as planning is not either of our strong points we ran out of time for any of the additional trips other than Shaharah. So then we decided she should delay her return to Australia by a week and we're now going to spend a week long holiday in Dubai. As much as my girlfriend loves Yemen a lot in some ways, I'm sure she'll prefer the lavishness and moderness of Dubai. Plus we've always wanted to go there together because since we've been seeing each other I've always told her I wanted to work there one day. Hopefully after this trip -
1. I'll have a clear idea of if I can get a great job as an engineer in Dubai after I leave Yemen in 6 months or if I should return to Australia to get more experience and,
2. I hope to find out if my girlfriend and I would be happy living in Dubai for a couple of years.
What I'm sure of now is that I don't want to go to Australia in the near future for anything other than a holiday. Right now Australia doesn't interest me. And recently I've realised leaving Australia, quitting my job and giving up everything other than Arabic that was previously important to me has altered my destiny. Prior to leaving I had a pretty clear picture of what I'd get up to before I keeled over. I found the predicatability of my life at the time suffocating and now, although it's cost me considerable money, I prefer my current feeling of uncertainity about my future. Now I've got lots of forks in the road before me and I'm no longer the slave to obligation I once was.
Disregarding any of my future ambitions I'd love to go to Lebanon or Syria to study Arabic for 6 months and explore those beautiful countries. But unless my next job is a proper job as an electrical engineer I will have a great deal of difficulty pursuing that career path in the future. So because of that, unless I can get a job in Dubai with some sort of career ladder I can climb, it will be best for my career and monetary future to return to Australia and work as an engineer in mining or oil and gas. And that's all ok as it agrees with my Dubai ambitions as long as I don't get trapped in Australia again.
Unfortunately though, because of her surprise arrival, I had already taken 2 weeks holiday from work for travel to Lebanon and Egypt and I wasn't able to take the 2 or 3 weeks we had arranged I would take when she came to visit me at the halfway point of coming to Yemen. So instead I tried to keep on working and studying while she was here and then spend one weekend visiting Shaharah, take her all around Sana'a during the nights and then after a week or so, go somewhere extra like Hadhramout, Aden or Hodayda/Kamaran Island. But as planning is not either of our strong points we ran out of time for any of the additional trips other than Shaharah. So then we decided she should delay her return to Australia by a week and we're now going to spend a week long holiday in Dubai. As much as my girlfriend loves Yemen a lot in some ways, I'm sure she'll prefer the lavishness and moderness of Dubai. Plus we've always wanted to go there together because since we've been seeing each other I've always told her I wanted to work there one day. Hopefully after this trip -
1. I'll have a clear idea of if I can get a great job as an engineer in Dubai after I leave Yemen in 6 months or if I should return to Australia to get more experience and,
2. I hope to find out if my girlfriend and I would be happy living in Dubai for a couple of years.
What I'm sure of now is that I don't want to go to Australia in the near future for anything other than a holiday. Right now Australia doesn't interest me. And recently I've realised leaving Australia, quitting my job and giving up everything other than Arabic that was previously important to me has altered my destiny. Prior to leaving I had a pretty clear picture of what I'd get up to before I keeled over. I found the predicatability of my life at the time suffocating and now, although it's cost me considerable money, I prefer my current feeling of uncertainity about my future. Now I've got lots of forks in the road before me and I'm no longer the slave to obligation I once was.
Disregarding any of my future ambitions I'd love to go to Lebanon or Syria to study Arabic for 6 months and explore those beautiful countries. But unless my next job is a proper job as an electrical engineer I will have a great deal of difficulty pursuing that career path in the future. So because of that, unless I can get a job in Dubai with some sort of career ladder I can climb, it will be best for my career and monetary future to return to Australia and work as an engineer in mining or oil and gas. And that's all ok as it agrees with my Dubai ambitions as long as I don't get trapped in Australia again.
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