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Should developing country citizens focus on building career in the home country or take a year off for work and holiday course in a developed country?

• I  am a citizen in a developing country. I have finished my university  degree, majoring in Business English and I am currently working as a CEO  assistant to take care of daily administrative tasks. There's 50% of  chance that I could take a work and holiday course in New Zealand and go  away for about a year. However, I still wonder whether this chance would be worth the risk to drop everything I'm building here and to spend all my saving money to just go away for an uncertain things The first thing I worry about is that I only have a degree in  English. Basically, you can say that I don't have any specific  professional skill since English is just a tool, not an exact major I  want to build my life career with (I don't like to teach or to be  translator/interpreter). What if I quit my job to follow my New Zealand  dream, and when I come back to my country, I would end up exactly the  same place where I left. This job I'm having may be not good but it would be better in a long term period. Secondly, I'm afraid that I couldn't find a job in New Zealand and I would waste a lot of money to just go there and come back nearly immediate. And this whole trip would feel like a vacation, not work at all!

• Answer:

  From a life perspective, going on a work vacation is a great idea especially when you're just starting out.  You've giving up relatively little to take this time off.  Later on in your life when your career is growing quickly and you are juggling a variety of objectives, it will be very difficult to find the time.  The opportunity cost then will be much higher than now. On the other hand, from a career perspective, doing odd jobs in New Zealand will probably do very little in advancing your career.  Your life saving can be valuable in helping you start a business or overcome a life obstacle too.  You don't want to waste it. For better or worse, I have always chosen delaying fun and concentrate on advancing my work.  If faced with this dilemma, I would structure the trip as a reward for achieving a significant milestone in my career.  Alternatively, I would find a way to structure the work vacation in such a way that it would advance my career.  For this purpose, I would probably choose another country too.