hey YouTube Alex here and in today's video I'm on the campus of silon University and I have been getting a lot of questions Alex you're pretty young I'm 32 years old you're too young to retire you're too young
to not be working what are you going to do how are you going to avoid going broke and I came up with some ideas besides just being an influencer which has been fun and I intend to continue doing
it but I also want to address some ideas that I have that are practical right because being an influencer can end at any time the platforms could decide to end the programs I could get tired of getting recognized
in public I have had a few ideas since I am looking like I washed out of the tech industry where it's been a year and a half since I've worked in Tech and I don't know that I'm going
to get back in uh without uh hello without uh getting some education even a lot of fresh grads right now uh with tech skills can't get education that's a whole basket of worms I'm not going to get into
in this video but my thought process was my mom's first degree was in Psychology second was accounting and then later she went back for a Nursing degree and I thought what about nursing I've got a Bachelor's degree and
the Philippines is world famous for exporting healthc care Talent you see this in the United States Australia New Zealand Canada many countries have Filipino healthcare workers they tend to be very caring and warm-hearted people for my observation and
so the country has a lot of infrastructure to train Healthcare talent you have a lot of great educational institutions here and I thought well I'm in dagate there are like four or five colleges here why don't I apply
to silly on so I thought I'd just put this out there see what you guys think what do you think about the idea of me applying to Slyman where we are standing right now for their nursing program their
nursing school tuition is far less than the tuition in the US and I wouldn't have to take out a bunch of debt I could pay cash not even really think about it to be honest compared to us pricing
I wouldn't be accumulating a bunch of debt that I'd be worried about quickly paying off I'd graduate without any debt then I'd be responsible for taking the enlex exam uh passing the enlex exam which would allow me lure
to practice in the United States and you know I know a lot of people are saying why not come back to the US that seems to be some of the most useless advice I get on this channel is
just come back to the US I guess they're thinking I'm going to move into their house and eat their food you got to make a lot of money to survive in the US these days I think 100K minimum
unless you own your own house and a bunch of assets you collect a pension then you really got to have some dough and so I thought well what about going back for nursing and coming out in California with
an RN you can make 100 to 140k per year and I'm sure that number goes up with experience and probably more toward the 140 as you get more experience then you probably get promoted to management roles later on
and make even more money of course you got more headaches more responsibility but I think that educational tourism is going to be more and more of a thing in the future As Americans move on from this student loan
debacle and they get tired of the Sky High tuition fees in the US that don't offer a great return on investment some of them I think are going to think why can't they just study in a more budget
friendly location that's covering a lot of the same material I mean let's be real here Simon is an American University to some extent in the Philippines at least it was founded by Americans and is considered one of the
most prestigious universities in the country to get this caliber of Education while paying for a more modest cost of living not being so hyper stressed about how am I going to pay rent how I'm going to pay rent
oh I've got to work full-time while I go to college resulting in poorer grades and not being able to make connections and get internships that kind kind of thing with this method I don't see why I couldn't assuming
I go through the application process I'm accepted I start which the earliest uh admission date would be the fall I go through the program for a couple of years I finish and I uh go back to the US
with no debt with a quality Nursing education with connections right because I specifically asked the counselor and I should have recorded that but I don't know if she would been comfortable with that uh maybe I can interview her
maybe I could come back here to selon and interview her about International students and how International students could apply to Simon because it's such a great institution anyway you know come here uh get get the education then go
back I'm sure they have connections to hospitals back in the US anywhere where there's a large philam community cities like San Francisco Los Angeles Chicago uh New York City like anywhere where there's a lot of Filipinos I'm sure
there are connections to hospitals in those areas there's probably an Alumni network that you have access to if you graduate from here the tuition is like 50k pesos per semester about $900 per semester my monthly expenses here run
like $600 a month so you know you're talking even if we round up like we round up substantially we're talking like under $30,000 for two years of living expenses tuition and incidentals like you know having some extra for
emergencies it just seems like a no-brainer so let me know what you think down in the comments is this something you thought about I know Mark Walters from Walter's world one of my favorite YouTube channels he studied in
Portugal he also studied in Brazil and Argentina he's taught in China he's taught in Germany as well I think so he's really an international Man and I'm curious if anybody else has had this experience of studying abroad whether
it be for Budget reasons I happen to enjoy the Philippines I think it's a beautiful country but also there's a lot of great opportunities here for Americans looking to Res skill or retrain and this campus is beautiful if
youve seen this video or some videos I've done recently where I show this campus it's gorgeous and I you know I see the reviews for it people seem to really like studying here I know some people have pointed
out oh how can you be sure the education is legit well I've worked with a lot of immigrants in the US who did not go to college in the US and at least not for undergrad right and their
credentials were accepted because they often went to really high quality universities overseas going to Simon is not the same as going to chattah huchi State no offense to anybody from Georgia who went to chattah huchi State that's not
a real college by the way but um um you know these institutions are well funded they want to see their students succeed they know that students going abroad and earning a solid income helps their country it also helps
to encourage other students looking to study abroad to come here to study and then to be able to go abroad with the quality education the US can't have it both ways you can't have all these people beholden in
student Lo attract all these people from other countries to work there and then simultaneously say oh no you can't study abroad Americans you've got to study here acrew A bunch of debt and then not be able to get
a job to pay the debt back it's one or the other it's either universities overseas are acceptable and we'll hire students from over there or they're not acceptable and we won't you can't have it both ways I mean
you go anywhere in the US it's an undesirable place to live and good chunk of the healthc Care Professionals if not all will be from other countries because many educated people don't want to live in Podunk Arkansas or
Billy Bob West Virginia they've got to recruit people from other countries uh the appeal of a much higher wage is so strong they'll live in these off the beaten path places with no real connection to that place may
not have the food that they're used to eating that's just the nature of the Aging Western Society is that they they've got a recruit Talent from abroad and they're not going to just give these people free education at
American institutions because super expensive to run an American college I think there's a reason why so many American universities are going out of business or consolidating programs and that's because they simply because they're not a good deal anymore
and they aren't sustainable and what they charge versus the result that you're going to get coming out I can attest to this from my own experience I didn't get a great Roi now some people will say you got
a useless degree now those same people are backpedaling why won't Elon hire my kid I'm not trying to get too political here but I think there is a valid case to be made do you know anyone who has
studied medicine nursing anything really overseas and then and then taking that education back to the states to earn the big bucks to justify the effort required to attain that education I think this has a potential will be another
one of those dirty secrets in the US like medical tourism where people no longer see a point and paying top dollar for results that aren't top dollar and not and evaluating educational opportunities based on potential outcomes and not
just cuz they feel good but because wow I spend x amount and then I get this much back and a potential nursing career nursing is not the most glamorous profession but it's solid in terms of necessity right with
an aging population I think demand for nurses is only going to go up and salaries should stay pretty strong unless they totally drop the barrier to entry unless they just totally open the floodgates then nurses should be making
good money for years to come on the other hand do you think it's a bad idea I mean I do think a lot of professors may not like it American professors they may feel like wow you're skipping over
paying me basically because you can go do your education over there and then you don't have to pay the Skyhigh tuition prices you don't have to pay all this administrative staff you still get a quality education and then
you come back right and there's a cultural component you get exposure to a different culture you get to see things from a different perspective um if you're paying for room and board room and board has gone up a
lot in US college towns rents have doubled in the college town I lived in when I went to college the first time around and I can't tell that theyve made upgrades justifying the double doubling of price so to
come here to the Philippines where I can live in a place I like around friendly people I can focus on my studies I don't have as many distractions I'm here at another campus to record the next part of
this video one of the advantages I could see to not studying in the US is not having to be around other students as a non-traditional student I remember when I was in college the first time around we had
this guy come and live in our student house it wasn't a dorm style housing but it was like apartments right next to campus and he would go down there to the office every day complaining about all kinds of
stuff and eventually they were like dude you're 30 something why are you coming down here and complaining about how 20y olds behave and I don't want to be that guy I don't want to be that guy that can't
adjust to Life as a non traditional student I get it 30 something year olds are not typical for nursing education to have to be around Young American students to have to live around them that just sounds like a
lot of headache and hassle the attitude that they might have the tendency to want to have a good time I know that a lot of colleges in the US the graduation rates are not spectac especially you get outside
the top 10 or 20 universities especially the top 50 I think then you're talking like a third graduate it's not the best environment to be around we're here in dumag I can live downtown I don't have to live
around other students I don't have to live in a dorm or dorm like setting I have my own privacy I have my own space and I still get the education right I still live in proximity to the university
but I'm not dealing with some of those downsides that come with being around non students or students who aren't very serious because as a non-traditional student you know I'm taking time away I could be presumably working I could
be saving money I could be doing something else with my time and I don't want to waste time dealing with people oh hey man I really you know I need to sleep tonight cuz I got an exam early
oh who cares about your exam man it doesn't matter I've had that experience in the past and I found to be a colossal waste of time and money and I don't want to repeat that experience part of the
reason that healthc Care Professionals in the US get paid so much is because the standard is so high the the reality of Healthcare in the US is that the US is extremely litigious so any little mistake that you
make as a health care professional is going to be heavily scrutinized it could potentially result in a lawsuit potentially result in the loss of your license so you need to be having all cylinders firing when you're studying you
need to be paying attention every single step of the way you need to be very very careful about paying attention your classes your coursework because there is less margin for error as a health care professional if you make
a major mistake because oh I just wasn't paying attention during that lesson or I didn't sleep well the night before or I skipped that class because I just didn't feel like going that could result in very serious consequences
for other people I tend to believe that being away from the chaos that is in the US the chaos that the US seems to have descended into could be beneficial for a student when I'm in the US it
seems like there's this outrage culture that impacts students oh campus protest this and campus protests that and I'm not saying people shouldn't care but I find that people in the US these days are often wrapped up getting upset
about things they have no control over and that's something I tend to really enjoy about here in the Philippines is that people seem to focus on what they have autonomy over or what they can control it's part of
why I find Filipinos to be so resilient is that they're not always worked up about random junk or Garbage uh they seem to be more focused in some ways the students here seem to be more focused than American
students I don't often hear about the students misusing the opportunity because college is so expensive because families have to make so many sacrifices for a student to go to college it's taken really seriously at least here in DTI
from what I've noticed a lot of students really try hard and work hard to understand the material and they sacrifice a lot of other things to make sure they're succeeding in their classes and so being in Asia I
think would be really interesting because I think we're seeing Asia rising and I think we're we're seeing a lot of these countries grow and improve and I think some of that growth and Improvement is a consequence of resource
scarcity the idea of a party College just doesn't really seem to make sense here where I went to a party school in the US most of the colleges in Tennessee or what I would call party schools with the
exception of a few universities most people are going there to have a good time I think that's why you see so many people drop out I think that's why you see so many people get irrelevant degre and uh
yeah so let me know what you think down in the comments below do you think it's a good idea to study abroad and then come back to us with the education but minus the debt still be qualified assuming
you can pass the exam requirement which I figure Simon is going to do a great job to prepare students to pass those exams because it's expensive right I mean by Philippine standards it's a a price to University especially
when you consider the opportunity cost and the time the room and board costs then it's not a cheap University to 10 when you look at the full package everything I've heard about the university is fantastic maybe you know
somebody in the US or Canada or Australia if you're in one of those countries or you're from one of those countries that did their education abroad and it really turned out to be beneficial for them their pocketbook and
their future uh maybe you disagree let me know if you disagree down in the comments I'm always interested to get your perspective next give us a thumbs up it helps with the YouTube algorithm and finally please subscribe to
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