Eight months ago, Jeff Johns and girlfriend Marina Dominguez made a decision that would change their lives forever. They packed up their belongings, bid goodbye to their friends and family, and headed to paradise: Phuket, Thailand.
But this move wasn't about taking a vacation — for the couple, moving abroad was a financial decision they felt they had to make.
After graduating with degrees in visual journalism from Brooks Institute in 2010, Jeff and Marina struggled to make ends meet. The short-term freelance jobs they worked were low-paying and unreliable, and they faced thousands of dollars of student loan debt with no foreseeable way to pay them.
"With my struggle to find steady income, working for a production company's office in their backyard, and the very sobering reality that in our current positions we were never going to climb out of our debt, let alone save for a wedding, a house or a family we had to change the paradigm we had found ourselves in," Jeff said in an email to Business Insider. "The facts were simple, we couldn't afford not to move abroad." Full story...
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But this move wasn't about taking a vacation — for the couple, moving abroad was a financial decision they felt they had to make.
After graduating with degrees in visual journalism from Brooks Institute in 2010, Jeff and Marina struggled to make ends meet. The short-term freelance jobs they worked were low-paying and unreliable, and they faced thousands of dollars of student loan debt with no foreseeable way to pay them.
"With my struggle to find steady income, working for a production company's office in their backyard, and the very sobering reality that in our current positions we were never going to climb out of our debt, let alone save for a wedding, a house or a family we had to change the paradigm we had found ourselves in," Jeff said in an email to Business Insider. "The facts were simple, we couldn't afford not to move abroad." Full story...
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