I lived in Hanoi for 10 months and worked there as an English teacher(I'm not a native speaker). It's been a wild ride considering I went there completely blind cause I had to change plans quickly and I was desperate to live my hometown and my country.

I would say 7/10 months I was feeling awful, stressed, overwhelmed, overworked, worried about money, work, my future etc. Nothing crazy happened, I did have some issues with work when I got there but it worked out and some of my colleagues had much worse situations...and I tried to make it work, but I gave up, around tet I decided to go home as soon as my contract finishes but the last 2-3 months there were great actually. I wasnt working as much, stopped worrying so much about work, stopped trying to save every single dong I have and just lived a little. I could have powered through the majority of my issues but I was too burnt out and ptsded from vn life style and esl industry there.

I got back home to my relatively small town and surprise surprise I'm not happy. I got back home heartbroken, unsure of my future, stuggling with my mental and physical health, back to my not so great family, it feels like I never left, nothing changed really. I have some savings but I don't want to continue teaching even tho that's what I have been doing since I graduated. I don't want to go back to vn and I don't want stay here, I'm stuck in between with no plan for the future. What do I even do right now lmao