I have a dilemma.
In July my boyfriend moved to Hong Kong for a job. I worked until the end of September to save up enough to come out here and join him. I just graduated in June (with BSc Zoology) so I thought it would be a great time to live abroad and see what happened.
Well not much has happened. I knew I wouldn’t have much chance finding a job relevent to my degree which is something I resigned myself to before I left. I’d heard that’s it’s pretty easy to find a job teaching English, even if you’re not that qualified to do it (like me) because there’s just a high demand for native speakers.
Unfortunately this has not been as easy as I thought and now that my boyfriend’s job security is in doubt (about 50 people in his office have been made redundant in the last 2 months) I’m unsure about signing even a 1 year contract as I know I would never get a high enough salary to support both of us if he did lose his job.
I’m now running out of money (despite my wonderful boyfriend paying rent, bills and for most of my food etc) and my return flight home for christmas is fast approaching. I had banked on at least having a job lined up by now so that I’d have some money to buy flights back to HK after christmas. But I don’t.
What are my options?
- Change my flight, stay here for christmas (alone) and keep trying to find a job until I run out of money completely. This won’t take long so I think I would be as well to just take the flights I have booked.
- Go home for christmas and eat turkey. Try to find a job at home to save up money again (although the way things are this might be even harder in the UK). Keep looking for jobs in HK while I’m there.
- Go home and forget about finding a job here and essentially force my boyfriend into coming home once his first year is finished.
- Climb up Victoria Peak (where they take all the postcard pictures of HK) and throw myself off the top, telling everyone I’m so sorry for being completely useless.
Any suggestions/ideas would be REALLY helpful. I am at a loss, particularly because I don’t have many close friends here my poor boyfriend has to deal with this all the time. I’m supposed to be here to support HIM!
Also thank you if you’ve managed to read this far, you are AMAZING :)
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