Discovering Job Opportunities

Turns out that LinkedIn has a few career groups specifically for the kinds of jobs I'm seeking. There are groups for marketing jobs in FMCG that, on e you join, send you daily postings on new job opportunities. I posted on the group page that I'll be moving to Vietnam, and a fellow group member suggested a website that has even more job postings!

Nothing is guaranteed, but this is promising information.

First P0st!

In the early part of 2013, my wife and I had a simple conversation about what it would be like if we dropped everything and lived abroad for a few months.

This daydreaming exercise started to gain traction, as we both secretly dwelled on the conversation in the days that followed. We revised our first conversation a few days later, and we realized that we both really did want to move abroad for a short period of time.

With my wife finishing her final year of residency in September, and with me having decided to leave my job as a business consultant, we figured that with the right planning, disciplined budgeting and saving, and a bit of sheer throwing caution to the wind, we set our sights on relocating to Vietnam this fall.

The current plan is for my wife to volunteer her medical experience to an NGO, One Body Village, where she will provide medical care to young women rescued from sex trafficking and improve the continuity of care offered by the organization. Once in country, I will start looking for a marketing job for a multinational corporation (MNC) in the Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) industry (e.g. Brand manager for Nestle Vietnam).

We'll rent out our house and live off of savings for a few months while we establish ourselves in Vietnam. After that, we'll see where life takes us.

This is an exciting time for us. We look forward to sharing our experiences with you, and hope that you'll join us with comments and suggestions along the way.