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Friday, August 01, 2008 12:26 am
Miserable.
I feel very distanced from those friends who have a boyfriend. I don't belong.
That lines would have led to a pathetic, self-demeaning, embarrassing story. And I hate to bare myself that way. So I'm just gonna leave it at that.
God! Am I going to die an old maid?
I miss school to the max. When I think of my life now, working life, life without having at least a month or two straight of holidays, unlike school, I get depressed. 21 days of annual leave is bloody hell not enough.
The pay is pretty horrible, to me. So I'm thinking of going to maybe Saudi Arabia (or something like that) to work. I heard nurses can get so much more out there. But my ultimate wish is to study and work in the UK. But I'm starting to worry that I might not get that chance because I've read in the newspaper that UK is tightening it's law or whatever for foreign workers. I read that companies in the UK can only hire a foreign worker if they can't find a citizen of their own to fill the job space.
Foreign workers hoping to fill skilled vacancies in Britain's labour market will have to meet strict new criteria, the Government announced today.
British-based companies will have to prove they cannot fill skilled posts with a resident worker and must show that the job vacancy has been advertised in the UK, unless the job is on the shortage occupation list. Would-be migrants will need a job offer before they even apply for a visa.
To qualify, skilled foreign nationals will have to earn a certain number of points before being allowed to work in Britain. These points are awarded only if a person can prove they will be doing skilled work, speak a good standard of English, and are earning more than £24,000, or have a decent qualification. Employers will need a licence from the UK Border Agency to offer jobs to skilled workers.
Border and Immigration Minister Liam Byrne said:
"Our new points system means that British jobseekers get the first crack of the whip and that only the skilled migrants we actually need will be able to come.
And I'm pretty sure they can get nurses in their own country. So how does that enable me to work over there if the hospitals don't want, or can't, hire me?
This is such a nightmare.

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