What do i do next?
Posted: Fri May 08, 2009 3:21 am
Right then
Its decision time and i dont have a clue which one to make, so i turn to you guys and the knowledge of the internets in hope that i can be pointed in a direction (not really the right direction, i know which that one is and im not gonna do it)
It is time for me to leave Rome, despite the fact i just got a pay rise and am living in a great hostel, the city is to small for me and all my freinds have left plus i am getting a bit bored and have a serious case of itchy feet.
These are my options:
1). (the smart option) Go home, go back to Leicester, pay of my credit card and save some money, get a real job... blah blah blah - this isnt going to happen, there is no way i am moving back in with my parents for any longer then a couple of weeks and i dont want a real job.
2). Stay in Rome. This would actually work, but i really am done with the city now and it's time to move on
3). Go fuck the life out of a girl i know in Paris. (i am doing this for a week regardless of long term plans) Live with her and try and get a job in Paris - however she leaves in September and i really dont feel like getting into anything to serious. - this plan also relies on us not getting sick of each other after 2 weeks - so also unlikely
4). London. i am waiting to hear back but i belive i have a job waiting for me in London, this also seems like a good plan and may well be the most preferable plan in the long term. However London just happens to be in England, which is really offputting (although you guys could come stay with me lots i guess)
5). Barcelona. I met a few people when i was over there, i am quite confident i could land a job within 2 or 3 days of being there in a bar or on one of the pub crawls and then look for something with acommadation after that
6). Any other city in Europe - fuck it, ive done it once and i can do it again. i only had 100 euro when i moved to Rome and i survived
7). Thailand -> Cambodia -> Vietnam -> Laos -> Malaysia -> Australia
This is the plan i want to do. This is also the plan i am doing at some point (was going to wait until early october when i made this plan last year). however, i found a flight to bangkok for 19 euro's at the end of June, or in mid July (will likely take this one) for 99 euro's. This is very cheap and if i go in october these flights will cost me 600 euro. Combined with the fact i want to leave Rome, come back home for a few weeks to see freinds and family and then fuck off again this is perfect
However. i currently have 300 euro saved, will be paid another 800 at the end of this month and can sell my car for about 500. that only gives me 1600 euro, which is just enough to live off in Thailand for a couple of months and make it to Melbourne (where i will have to find a job quickly - acommodation is not really a problem i dont think)
i would be getting a 24 month working visa as well (100 euro) so if i did this plan i would be gone for a year minimum
The downside to all these plans is the £3500 sitting on my credit card i have no way to pay off, the fact that 1600 euro really isnt enough to go half way around the world on (and i have to live a month in England on that money, which is going to hurt as well as buy quite a bit for such a long trip - at the most id be taking about £1000 cash) and with the distance involved it would be nice to have backup cash for when i run into complications - which im sure i will
Which is why i can't decide what to do, i want to do the Thailand plan, its just the more i think about it the more it seems like a bad idea (i could always get jobs along the way, and i need to talk to a freind about a job in Kuala Lumpa + a house to live in on her island)
Part of me really wants to say fuck it and just get on the plane for Thailand and worry about it when i get there. Ill be fine. If need be i can get to Melbourne or Sydney early and crash at a freinds place. Or just find random odd jobs around Thailand, if you are willing to do anything for any money then there is plenty of jobs anywhere i have found
then the other part is telling me there probably wont be any harm in delaying for 6 months (i feel that if i leave it any longer then that i will probably never go)
So then - any advice? i have so many options, all are just as dumb as each other. Which is what makes it such a tough decision
tl;dr: Pick a number and tell me how to fuck up my life more. options 1-6 involve me using my brain a little, option 7 involves selling myself as a ladyboy on the streets of bangkok for 10 baht a pop (i know which way Villa will vote)
Also i know this is a lot to ask, but serious answers please since i am really stuck
Its decision time and i dont have a clue which one to make, so i turn to you guys and the knowledge of the internets in hope that i can be pointed in a direction (not really the right direction, i know which that one is and im not gonna do it)
It is time for me to leave Rome, despite the fact i just got a pay rise and am living in a great hostel, the city is to small for me and all my freinds have left plus i am getting a bit bored and have a serious case of itchy feet.
These are my options:
1). (the smart option) Go home, go back to Leicester, pay of my credit card and save some money, get a real job... blah blah blah - this isnt going to happen, there is no way i am moving back in with my parents for any longer then a couple of weeks and i dont want a real job.
2). Stay in Rome. This would actually work, but i really am done with the city now and it's time to move on
3). Go fuck the life out of a girl i know in Paris. (i am doing this for a week regardless of long term plans) Live with her and try and get a job in Paris - however she leaves in September and i really dont feel like getting into anything to serious. - this plan also relies on us not getting sick of each other after 2 weeks - so also unlikely
4). London. i am waiting to hear back but i belive i have a job waiting for me in London, this also seems like a good plan and may well be the most preferable plan in the long term. However London just happens to be in England, which is really offputting (although you guys could come stay with me lots i guess)
5). Barcelona. I met a few people when i was over there, i am quite confident i could land a job within 2 or 3 days of being there in a bar or on one of the pub crawls and then look for something with acommadation after that
6). Any other city in Europe - fuck it, ive done it once and i can do it again. i only had 100 euro when i moved to Rome and i survived
7). Thailand -> Cambodia -> Vietnam -> Laos -> Malaysia -> Australia
This is the plan i want to do. This is also the plan i am doing at some point (was going to wait until early october when i made this plan last year). however, i found a flight to bangkok for 19 euro's at the end of June, or in mid July (will likely take this one) for 99 euro's. This is very cheap and if i go in october these flights will cost me 600 euro. Combined with the fact i want to leave Rome, come back home for a few weeks to see freinds and family and then fuck off again this is perfect
However. i currently have 300 euro saved, will be paid another 800 at the end of this month and can sell my car for about 500. that only gives me 1600 euro, which is just enough to live off in Thailand for a couple of months and make it to Melbourne (where i will have to find a job quickly - acommodation is not really a problem i dont think)
i would be getting a 24 month working visa as well (100 euro) so if i did this plan i would be gone for a year minimum
The downside to all these plans is the £3500 sitting on my credit card i have no way to pay off, the fact that 1600 euro really isnt enough to go half way around the world on (and i have to live a month in England on that money, which is going to hurt as well as buy quite a bit for such a long trip - at the most id be taking about £1000 cash) and with the distance involved it would be nice to have backup cash for when i run into complications - which im sure i will
Which is why i can't decide what to do, i want to do the Thailand plan, its just the more i think about it the more it seems like a bad idea (i could always get jobs along the way, and i need to talk to a freind about a job in Kuala Lumpa + a house to live in on her island)
Part of me really wants to say fuck it and just get on the plane for Thailand and worry about it when i get there. Ill be fine. If need be i can get to Melbourne or Sydney early and crash at a freinds place. Or just find random odd jobs around Thailand, if you are willing to do anything for any money then there is plenty of jobs anywhere i have found
then the other part is telling me there probably wont be any harm in delaying for 6 months (i feel that if i leave it any longer then that i will probably never go)
So then - any advice? i have so many options, all are just as dumb as each other. Which is what makes it such a tough decision
tl;dr: Pick a number and tell me how to fuck up my life more. options 1-6 involve me using my brain a little, option 7 involves selling myself as a ladyboy on the streets of bangkok for 10 baht a pop (i know which way Villa will vote)
Also i know this is a lot to ask, but serious answers please since i am really stuck