Hi people. Just a lilttle backstory of me before I ask my question.
I'm a 27 year-old male, and just got my bachelor's on English Language and Literature. I thought I'd be easy for me to find a job since people with foreign languages are wanted all over the world, but that wasn't the case.
See, if you graduate from my department, you either end up studying another major, hit one of your links up and find a job through people with power, or get a pedagogical certificate and become a teacher. And since I was scared of having no job, I got the certificate and did teaching for almost 2 years, but the amount they pay teachers is absolutely ridicilous and the way our economy has been for the past 5-6 years, it genuinely looks hopeless.
Now, I had the opportunity to work with Australian Consulate for a day or two since my school is located in the same city as Turks and The Anzacs fought in the WWI and thanks to Atatürk, our relationship has been top notch ever since. And other than that, I've never had a criminal record, I've never even had a ticket despite of having been a driver/rider for the past 6 years. I've got a Schengen Visa and my father sent me to Italy for the summer for an Italian course and those are all documented.
I know it's not much but I feel like it's my only way to the true happiness in life.
What are my plans?
My plan is to be around more understanding and more modern people. I want to be able to go out with my mates and not worry about the bill. I want to visit other countries without giving up and/or risking my savings since such thing is considered a luxury here.
I want learn more. Learn about different cultures, different people and I want to learn what it is like to live in a rather ''care-free'' as my entire youth has been, quite literally, wasted under Erdogan's regime. I don't want to digress too much but as an example, I love cars and I just couldn't have one since you have to pay a whopping %130 tax on top of the ridiculous prices so even for, say a high milage second hand Fiesta, you have to get a big chunk of a loan from a bank because you just can't save all that money. (for reference, the minimum wage here is 2.5K. and you have to pay at least 70K for the said Fiesta, whereas it should be around just under 10K in any other EU country. It's just bizzare.)
I just want to live a normal life.
A good friend of my father's wants me to come to Canada as he thinks I can survive there. And although I absolutely adore Canada, I don't know now to get there, or any other western countries for that matter.
Now before you say that Turkey isn't that bad, I agree. But I don't feel like I belong here anymore.
Even to this day, the sheer though of me sitting in a plane on my way to a new life is just moves me on an entirely different level.
It is either Canada, or other European countries for me, although I could have some difficulties with the language since I don't have a fixed ''profession'' which haunts me a lot and I regret studying that particular department, to be fair.
I feel like I've rambled about too much so here is a TL:DR
27, M, Turkish, wants to move to Canada, or Europe. What steps should I take?
Thank you have a good day and never take things for granted.
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