Hey guys! New Mustachian-in-training here. Just wanted to throw something out there and see if anyone else has been in this situation-- going back to your home country after many years out of it. Here's my story in a brief nutshell:
-Graduated university at 22
-Moved to Spain for a gap year to teach English
-Became 2 years
-Moved to Thailand (more teaching)
-2 more years later...
I'm almost 26 and planning on making my way back to the US. Now, one awesome thing about Thailand is the cost of living is SUPER cheap. I only get paid about $1,200/month but of that, I'm easily saving 75%. Here, I'm basically already rich. (I'll make another post highlighting the awesomeness of a plan such as this later on) But now, I'll be heading back with about $15,000 or so to my name.
I suppose my biggest concern is being able to land any work at all. I have an advertising degree but have done absolutely nothing relevant to that during my 4 years traveling. I am fluent in Spanish and have intermediate Thai, if that's any help...
And I also wonder what kind of salary I'm gonna be looking at when I'm back. Seems like so many folks around here are already at such high salaries, and I'm trying to gather my 'stache soon. I wanna travel more, indefinitely, and work random jobs without ever needing to worry about money. I plan on dropping 10K into VTSAX when I land, and I guess just job search like a damn fiend.
Any other repatriation stories? Anybody know of some sort of decent communications position with a nice salary for a language nerd and aspiring Mustachian? =P I'm excited and terrified at the same time.