at least as of now its been decided that the platform for which i had joined my friend's co. is not going to commence in the near future.  cant say about the later, nothing is predictable.  i came across a job in Saudi Arabia of my own field and have already sent my resume through the consultant who has put it up on a job placement site.  though they have asked for all experience letters and reference letters from my previous employers, presently i have sent only my resume for them to go through and decide upon my eligibility.  if they find it suitable, obviously they will contact me.  i have been working in my field for the past 15 years now.  after our training got over, i was elevated to the post of proof reader which means less of typing and more of proof reading the files and because of that i could not get into the habit of typing or better still transcribing, though i did some transcribing over all these years but it was not much to put me into fast typing.  and the work i m doing presently is online where the files are typed by VRS, voice recognition, so there's absolutely nil typing work or at the most one or two files in an  entire day.  so now if i get to work abroad, it will be mostly transcribing which is going to be taxing.  God only knows whether i will be able to do it or not.  also a cousin of mine who has shifted to UK a few months back wants me to come over there.  i know i got ample opportunities there.  i can work in a dr's office as his assistant managing his patient's records, but again it may involve typing.  one advantage of going to Saudi is that all the expenses will be borne by them, but then it will be like working as a slave.  you know, they keep our passport, etc.  while in UK, all the expenses will have to be borne by me, but it will be complete freedom, but i don't have funds to do that.  only one thing can be done is that work like a slave for one year, save money and then escape to freedom.