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[sheeba]

[The_Hanged_Man]

This may be too obvious, but I think if you are serious about a career back home you need to be serious about your ESL career now.

If you can show an employer back home how you have developed yourself professionally (certificates, degrees, promotions, etc.) in your ESL career, then they can safely assume that you will show the same degree of ambition and professional drive with them.

However, if you have just done the same old McEnglish job for 5 years straight with no visable signs of professional growth, why should an employer expect you would do any better with them? Unless you have connections, the best you can generally hope for is another low/entry level McJob with crappy pay and benefits(telemarketing, bank teller, etc.).

You need to be proactive with your career. Think about where you would like to be in 1/5/10 years, and start taking the steps now that will get you there. I've known way too many ex-ESL people who came back to the states with either no plan or an unrealistic one, and they end up floundering. Within a year a lot of them are frustrated, are looking for another job overseas again, and fall back into the same old rut.

[Deicide]

Personally I wouldn't voluntarily go back to the states...fucked up country it is...let the people there have their credit card debts, mortgages and let them think Iraq is Australia...

[The_Hanged_Man]