A lot of young people, especially those from developing countries, choose to work abroad to make a better living or to find a job that is more popular in those regions, thus they’ll be able to practice their profession. This choosing has some advantages, as well as disadvantages.

The main advantage in this situation is of course the salary, or as it is called more often, the wage, which is also the main reason why many people start working abroad. Another advantage of working in a foreign country is the ability to study other nation’s culture: the arts, the local language, the literature, their local food and drinks, their national and human values. Some of these things we can also bring home and make our home a better place.

For example, a doctor who was making his residency abroad can contribute to the society by bringing new ways of treating the people, which will improve the efficiency of the national health system. Working in a different country helps the worker to understand new ideas and to develop himself as a personality, because you are literally out of your zone of comfort and if you do not adapt, you can be left with nothing.

On the other hand, there are also major disadvantages. Firstly, as I previously said in my statement, if you do not adapt, you cannot survive, neither financially, nor socially. This is the most common cause why so many people come back from abroad and start working for a much less salary and maybe even not at their profession. They just simply cannot adapt in a country where they do not know anybody, do not know the culture and cannot know what to expect from the people around them.

Secondly, working abroad also very often means taking some risks, for example a large part of the population works illegally because of the lack of visa or other necessary bureaucracy.  Thus, their salary is black, which means it is not guaranteed by the state, nor are their rights and freedoms, the employer can manipulate them as he wishes and as far as I am concerned, that happens more often than it should.

To sum up everything, before going working abroad, we must weight all of the advantages and disadvantages, depending on what we might make a decision.