I took a job in New Zealand after my life turned upside down. I love it here, but the pay isn’t sustainable. [Video]
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I took a job in New Zealand after my life turned upside down. I love it here, but the pay isn’t sustainable. [Video]

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Camille Fahrnbauer, a 26-year-old travel nurse from Georgia currently working in New Zealand. It’s been edited for length and clarity.

Travel nursing in the US was debilitating. I needed multiple days to recover from the exhaustion of a single shift. So when my husband left me unexpectedly and my life flipped upside down, I took a nursing job in New Zealand.

I was shocked at how different the work culture was. We’re adequately staffed, I’m given multiple breaks, and I finally have the energy to care for my patients. My work-life balance is restored and I feel like me again.

Still, I won’t be staying.

For a fresh start, I signed a year-long nursing contract in New Zealand

I’d been travel nursing across the West Coast for three years when I started feeling a pull to nurse abroad. I knew I wouldn’t be 26 forever …

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