This started out as a place for me to write about our adventures while we lived in the Middle East and travelled around a few other places. We have since returned to Australia to live (much to my dismay) as my husband (Mr H) got a job offer back home and had been wanting to return home for a while.
Living in the Middle East can really get under your skin after a while - in a good and bad way. As with most places there are pros and cons of living there. The major con for us was that I could not get a job in the same country as Mr H (Qatar) so I moved to Saudi Arabia to work (I had worked there before so knew what I was in for), we did this for 2.5years. How we kept our relationship alive was me travelling back to Qatar every two weeks or so. And it worked really well.
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We have now been home in Australia for one year - and I have such itchy feet - I want to go back. And yes I would go back to Saudi Arabia - there is something about the place that I like, and of course there are many things that I don't like. So all I have to do now is talk Mr H into it.
The main reason for this is my current job. I am a nurse and I work in the community, I have been doing this job for 10 months and it started out working four days a week and it was so busy. But something is going on (don't know what and neither does anyone else) but my workload has decreased - for instance tomorrow I am visiting one patient. I have gone from visiting in a fortnight sometimes 60 patients to maybe 20.
On the Gold Coast there are not that many nurse jobs around. I lived away from Mr H for nearly three years and we came home to be together so I don't want to work weekends or night duty - so I guess my options are limited - and these are the jobs that everyone wants. Or maybe I should just change my career - but to what I don't know....
But on the upside Mr H has started applying for jobs in the Middle East - I have everything crossed. At least I know he is open to the idea - even though he loves his job at the moment. But moving overseas again is good for his career progression.
You might be questioning my sanity - me wanting to live in one big sandpit where every little crevice is constantly filled with sand (I always used to say that I had a small sand dune forming in my lungs), where you don't see blue skies on a regular basis and the temperatures often exceed 45 degrees C especially since we live in this beautiful country called Australia - well maybe I am a little insane LOL....
Do you think I'm mad????
Have you changed your career late in life?????
Watch this space.....
