Please help, I am confused!!!?
I am working here in Saudi Arabia as a nurse receiving 3,000+ Saudi Riyals monthly, even if the salary is not as high as compared to other countires, work is comfortable, which I prefer to because I am planning to have a baby next year.. House, food, electricity, water, medicines are free.. I am having a satisying life here in KSA actually, but, my soon-to-be-husband wants us to migrate in Australia.. This gives me worries, especially about the things that we might encounter there.. I browsed a lot of websites about australian immigration and started to search about the lives of nurses there. What I've known is I have the possiblity to acquire a working visa, but less chance because they prefer UK and Singapore licensed nurses, but If I really want to enter Aussie immediately I can apply for Student Visa and study for 18mos in a university to qualify to their standards which requires me to prepare 11,000 AUSD(a big which until now I don't know how to raise up this money, maybe I'll seek rescue from my rich relatives)... What really bothers me are the following: 1. Is there a big chance for me to get a job as a nurse in the hospital after finishing my studies in university and spending huge money? 2. I am afraid to leave my comfortable job here in Saudi Arabia and go to Australia with no assurance that I can secure a job in the hospital... I hope those nurses who came from Saudi Arabia and went to Aussie for the same reason of searching a greener pasteur can share some experiences and help make things clear for me... Please give me some insights and comparison between living in Saudi Arabia and Australia.. Thanks a lot..
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G'day, I understand your worry and I would have the same feeling as well if I am placed in your shoes (and I'm a male). Wow... I cannot imagine living without have to worry abt mortgage, food, utilities bills and medical expenses. However, I guess there are no perfect place and one of the reason why your future husband would like to emigrate. This is what I can inform you: 1. There's big demand for nursing job in Australia, that's one thing for sure. Every nursing courses in Australian universities are always jam-packed with both Australian and international students, seeking for quick job acceptance after graduated and quite good pays. So in that sense you do not have to worry. As there are job placements in the course, all senior hospital administrator would have notice all good potential students already and may offer contract/permanent job placement even before you complete your study (of course, if you are good). However, it is possible that you got a job sooner than your husband. 2. If you may already be a fully registered nurse then you do not have to take a full bachelor degree course (3yrs). Some universities in Australia actually offer a course to accommodate fully registered overseas nurse. Sample of course is in the link below. It is shorter and cheaper. 3. If your husband already got Permanent Residence (PR), and you are already married to him, then you will get a PR as well, so you do not need working or student visa to come to Australia. Now... of course as you might already known, Australians do not have those "free" things that you got in KSA, however there may be other things that you might not be able to enjoy in KSA. Lots of my friends who have worked in Asia like Japan, HK or S'pore told me that they can spend more time with their family in Australia compared to when they were working in those countries. However please be prepared when you want to have a baby, as you may not be able to enlist the helps of your relatives and you will rely on you & your husband to look after the baby. Please discuss this first with your husband, as he REALLY has to help you with looking after babies, even though he still has to work. FYI, new mum in Australia can have 12months maternity leaves. I have gone thru raising baby by just me & my wife and I can tell you, it really test the strength of our relationships. If you do not get much responds from the ppl in this area, I suggest you re-post your question in Travel-Australia in Yahoo Answer as the area are visited by plenty of Australians and who knows, someone who were in you position read your question and able to give you better answer than I am :) Hope this helps. If you got more questions you want to ask me feel free to e-mail me on mikegun(at)studentfirst.com.au. Good luck.
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Thursday, July 14, 2011
Please help, I am confused!
Please help, I am confused!!?
I am working here in Saudi Arabia as a nurse receiving 3,000+ Saudi Riyals monthly, even if the salary is not as high as compared to other countires, work is comfortable, which I prefer to be because I am planning to have a baby next year.. House, food, electricity, water, medicines are free.. I am having a satisying life here in KSA actually, but, my soon-to-be-husband wants us to migrate in Australia.. This gives me worries, especially about the things that we might encounter there.. I browsed a lot of websites about australian immigration and started to search about the lives of nurses there. What I've known is I have the possiblity to acquire a working visa, but less chance because they prefer UK and Singapore licensed nurses, but If I really want to enter Aussie immediately I can apply for Student Visa and study for 18mos in a university to qualify to their standards which requires me to prepare 11,000 AUSD(a big amount of money which until now I don't know how to raise this money, maybe I'll seek rescue from my rich relatives)... What really bothers me are the following: 1. Is there a big chance for me to get a job as a nurse in the hospital after finishing my studies in university and spending huge money? 2. I am afraid to leave my comfortable job here in Saudi Arabia and go to Australia with no assurance that I can secure a job in the hospital... I hope those nurses who came from Saudi Arabia and went to Aussie for the same reason of searching a greener pasteur can share some experiences and help make things clear for me... Please give me some insights and comparison between living in Saudi Arabia and Australia.. Thanks a lot.. 2 seconds ago - 4 days left to answer.
Sydney - 3 Answers
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My question to you is why aren't you asking or posing this to your husband to be? Its not about you and the baby only but if he is a man to marry then you need to figure all this out with him and see what the plan is...besides its not all about him either now is it? he should be reading this and i hope he does so he can know how you really see it and feel. good luck
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You won't get free housing, electricity, etc, etc in Australia. I don't know the qualification ins and outs. We desperately need nurses... but for friends of mine in nursing, it's definitely a labour of love, not cash reward. Rural areas especially are screaming for people. I'm in central NSW and the hospital here has an amazing array of nationalities in the nurses and doctors. It sounds as if the beginnings of a family will be easier where you are security wise. In saying that though, Australia is a great place to bring up kids. I guess you should make your decision based on future priorities.
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What you dont understand is that while nurses are wanted NOW they are because there is a lack of qualified nurses in Australia. That is why this profession is listed as a migration career. The government is using qualified migrants to fill the hole until such time that there are enough home grown students to fill this gap and then nursing will no longer be a migration career. Given that the last two years, nursing has had the highest number of applications throughout every university in the country - in 2 years (December 2011) there will be more nurses in Australia then jobs. So if you need to get an 18 month top up degree you will be competing for these spaces in the nursing sector. 11K is for the degree but you will need to show (especially if your husband is coming) over 25K in cash to support yourself. On a student visa you will not have access to childcare subsidies or any support from the government. Currently there are lots of jobs in the country - but we are talking places where its a 4-6 hour drive on a high way until you reach a shopping centre. Where most of your shopping is done through mail order. Jobs in the cities are hard to get - there is the deman but not the money and since hospitals are government owned they have to pay the going rate and as such places are understaffed
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I am working here in Saudi Arabia as a nurse receiving 3,000+ Saudi Riyals monthly, even if the salary is not as high as compared to other countires, work is comfortable, which I prefer to be because I am planning to have a baby next year.. House, food, electricity, water, medicines are free.. I am having a satisying life here in KSA actually, but, my soon-to-be-husband wants us to migrate in Australia.. This gives me worries, especially about the things that we might encounter there.. I browsed a lot of websites about australian immigration and started to search about the lives of nurses there. What I've known is I have the possiblity to acquire a working visa, but less chance because they prefer UK and Singapore licensed nurses, but If I really want to enter Aussie immediately I can apply for Student Visa and study for 18mos in a university to qualify to their standards which requires me to prepare 11,000 AUSD(a big amount of money which until now I don't know how to raise this money, maybe I'll seek rescue from my rich relatives)... What really bothers me are the following: 1. Is there a big chance for me to get a job as a nurse in the hospital after finishing my studies in university and spending huge money? 2. I am afraid to leave my comfortable job here in Saudi Arabia and go to Australia with no assurance that I can secure a job in the hospital... I hope those nurses who came from Saudi Arabia and went to Aussie for the same reason of searching a greener pasteur can share some experiences and help make things clear for me... Please give me some insights and comparison between living in Saudi Arabia and Australia.. Thanks a lot.. 2 seconds ago - 4 days left to answer.
Sydney - 3 Answers
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My question to you is why aren't you asking or posing this to your husband to be? Its not about you and the baby only but if he is a man to marry then you need to figure all this out with him and see what the plan is...besides its not all about him either now is it? he should be reading this and i hope he does so he can know how you really see it and feel. good luck
2 :
You won't get free housing, electricity, etc, etc in Australia. I don't know the qualification ins and outs. We desperately need nurses... but for friends of mine in nursing, it's definitely a labour of love, not cash reward. Rural areas especially are screaming for people. I'm in central NSW and the hospital here has an amazing array of nationalities in the nurses and doctors. It sounds as if the beginnings of a family will be easier where you are security wise. In saying that though, Australia is a great place to bring up kids. I guess you should make your decision based on future priorities.
3 :
What you dont understand is that while nurses are wanted NOW they are because there is a lack of qualified nurses in Australia. That is why this profession is listed as a migration career. The government is using qualified migrants to fill the hole until such time that there are enough home grown students to fill this gap and then nursing will no longer be a migration career. Given that the last two years, nursing has had the highest number of applications throughout every university in the country - in 2 years (December 2011) there will be more nurses in Australia then jobs. So if you need to get an 18 month top up degree you will be competing for these spaces in the nursing sector. 11K is for the degree but you will need to show (especially if your husband is coming) over 25K in cash to support yourself. On a student visa you will not have access to childcare subsidies or any support from the government. Currently there are lots of jobs in the country - but we are talking places where its a 4-6 hour drive on a high way until you reach a shopping centre. Where most of your shopping is done through mail order. Jobs in the cities are hard to get - there is the deman but not the money and since hospitals are government owned they have to pay the going rate and as such places are understaffed
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Thursday, July 7, 2011
A black russian at a bar stabbed my arm with a screwdriver. Would the nurse put my arm in a singapore sling
A black russian at a bar stabbed my arm with a screwdriver. Would the nurse put my arm in a singapore sling?
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Be off with you and your terrible jokes!!
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Yes..then I would get my friend Jack Daniels and go whoop him.
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if you ask for it, probably
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Not if you prayed in Shirley Temple.
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Just get philip pine some more-make her stand united+state the obvious to Sargentina and be Quebec about it!
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Polls & Surveys - 5 Answers
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Be off with you and your terrible jokes!!
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Yes..then I would get my friend Jack Daniels and go whoop him.
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if you ask for it, probably
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Not if you prayed in Shirley Temple.
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Just get philip pine some more-make her stand united+state the obvious to Sargentina and be Quebec about it!
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Friday, July 1, 2011
I want to shift course. I don't want to take up Nursing anymore. Help me
I want to shift course. I don't want to take up Nursing anymore. Help me?
Well, I'm an incoming second year Nursing student. But I think I couldn't continue it anymore. Because its getting costy, in terms of tuition fee and books and everything. I want to take up Hotel and restaurant management since I'd like to work on hotels, and like to learn cooking and bartending perhaps. I'm also pretty good in Math, I can take up Engineering. But help me choose a course that could give me an oppurtunity to work abroad, like in Singapore perhaps. Help. I'm our class valedictorian when I graduated from highschool. Just thought this would come useful.
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Teaching.
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Well, I'm an incoming second year Nursing student. But I think I couldn't continue it anymore. Because its getting costy, in terms of tuition fee and books and everything. I want to take up Hotel and restaurant management since I'd like to work on hotels, and like to learn cooking and bartending perhaps. I'm also pretty good in Math, I can take up Engineering. But help me choose a course that could give me an oppurtunity to work abroad, like in Singapore perhaps. Help. I'm our class valedictorian when I graduated from highschool. Just thought this would come useful.
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Teaching.
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