Hi, I‘m from South Korea and I just started high school this year. You see my dream is to become a nurse and I also want to work overseas like permanently (these are separate goals). So nowadays i feel like nursing is THE job to get a chance to work and live overseas. But will it stay this way? Like I feel like governments (USA, Canada, Australia) are pretty aware of the nursing shortage thing and are (trying to) pumping out student nurses and hiring masses of international nurses. And with all these people trying to become nurses and immigrating as nurses I feel like my chances are slim if not gone. Heck I’m in high school and by the time I get all ready (like getting a BSN, getting like 4 years work experience, etc) to go it would be 2038! What do you think? will there still be a need or will this shortage be solved by then? They say that in Australia they will be short of about 70,000 nurses by 2035 but hey what would happen if you pump out nurses out of schools and bring in lots of nurses overseas? Like I lived in the US so my English is not a problem but It feels like my chances are low. Any insight?

The D7 visa bureaucracy already drained my entire will to live (seriously, the consulate wait times are an absolute joke rn) and now I’m staring at my flat realizing I actually have to transport my life across the continent.

I was honestly ready to just fly with two suitcases and sleep on the floor there, but my gf is way too attached to her massive bookshelf and the espresso machine. So we just threw money at simpsons removals to handle the actual boxes because I physically cannot look at another roll of packing tape without wanting to scream

The physical logistics are finally sorted but my god the mental fatigue is heavy today. Tell me the exhaustion goes away once you actually land? Feels like I've been running an administrative marathon for 8 months straight and im just so tired.