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Taking my own advice

Massachusetts sunsets ( my sister said it reminded her of Forest Gump)

I don’t know what it is about returning to the US, but something here motivates and drives me more than expected.

It could be because my sister works from home, and we can sit silently and focus on what we are working on.

She has been remote with her job for the past two years but goes into the office a few times a week. So, I wonder if my desire to never go into an office or hospital is my driving force or if seeing her working for someone is my driving force.

Maybe she is overall motivating, but I am not sure.

It could be that when I go to the grocery store, I realize that what I make online, I would never survive in this country, and I never plan on living here full time, but it is still in the back of my mind: what if.

I am not sure what happened the first few days I was here. I was writing a ton and creating videos.

Then I was talking to a friend about something, and it all clicked, an idea I had been toying with for a while but was honestly too scared to do. I have thought about and ignored this idea; I will dabble with it and then say nah, I can’t do it.

Then, I overanalyze and worry about what people will think about me. Call me a hater of my own country; I am not. It is also why I write so much about following your intuition; I need the pep talk for myself.

Everything I write is a pep talk to myself, and if it helps others, I am so happy. Yet my intuition for a while has been telling me a few things; first of all, I need a more steady income, a way to help people, and not care what others think.

My entire life revolves around living and moving abroad; it’s like a giant red light blaring at me daily. I was researching a video and watching someone talk about ¨finding what you are good at¨. Shocker, I still don’t know.

I like to write, but what is that one thing everyone questions me about?

Then, a friend emailed me that a friend needed help finding a job. Then, another girl I met told me she wanted to leave her bedside nurse job, and I was like you can do XYZ. She was like, oh.

Then I realized I am good at guiding others and pointing them to what fits their wants and needs. It excites me for some odd reason, and I love it anytime someone wants to change. This I like. Unfortunately, I could not see it within myself until yesterday, and after overthinking it, I realized it today.

Plus, my entire life revolves around moving and living abroad, learning the visas, recommending countries, how easy it is, and all the details that no one else cares about. I love it.

I love the research into a country.

Yet I have been scared, afraid that I am not good enough. How can I help people do something I am not doing?

Then I was like, wait, I am doing it. I am living abroad; I choose countries based on specific criteria.

I left my bedside job and figured it out. I know it was a Homer Simpson, duh moment.

I have decided to dedicate myself to helping nurses leave the hospital and leave America. Something that I am and was afraid of getting hate for ¨we already have a nursing shortage, and you want to make it worse¨. Yes, I do.

Until the healthcare system can get its act together, I will single-handedly help nurses leave careers that are killing them, if only to inspire them to go where they can live a better life and get a job or create a life they love.

Why should we work 12 hours daily and get yelled at by managers, doctors, and co-workers? Seriously, no.

I will no longer sit on the fence and say, “Well, it’s okay, no, it is not, and yes, you must leave¨. So, if you are a nurse who wants to create a new life living abroad, I am your girl.

I am not going to feel bad about talking shit about the healthcare system; I am not going to feel bad about talking shit about the US government. They know precisely what they are doing, and those of us who can leave will.

I will show you that it is possible. Anyway. Rant over.

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The US is not a free country; the American dream is a lie to keep you stuck and make others want to flock to our country when we have nothing to offer them. Except now they are another number and dependent on the government.

As the Nomad Capitalist says, ¨Go where you are treated best, ¨ so I will help nurses go where they can create a life outside the bedside since just as many people want to leave the US as those who want to come to the US.

I will help make room for those seeking a better life and seek a better life, too, not here. Since I am already searching for what country I want to immigrate to, I will be helping myself and, hopefully, those who want to move abroad.

This is another diary entry, as my brain is on complete overdrive, and getting it out helps me clarify. Imagine my brain as it is in one of those detective shows with strings all over the map.

XOXO

S