Leaving Ecuador - Moving back to the U.S. after living as an expat for 14 years.

hello YouTube so it's been several months since I've made any sort of video for my channel anything for you guys to watch and I've had a reason for it um there's some big changes coming in my life and I really wanted to um finalize things and know that these changes were happening for sure before I before I updated you guys so um I'm out here on my farm and I am I'm spending a little time looking at all my plants looking at everything that I have spent the last several years carrying for um looking at them for probably the last time for at least a year probably more because the big change in my life is I'm a I'm about to go back to the US me the uh Perpetual expat living in Ecuador you know I've I've I've been based out of the US for 14 years now and uh I'm about to go right back into it I'm about to return to the belly of the Beast because uh money calls I I need money I need money to pay for my family's life I need money especially right now to pay for um university for my kids um my oldest is is about ready next year he's going to going to be probably going to University and I got to pay for it and uh I kind of I kind of would prefer that my kids go to school in the US rather than Ecuador um Ecuador is a wonderful place but not on the list of positives about Ecuador is the educational system and um if my kids go to school in the US graduate from high school and eventually a University from the US they'll have the same type of opportunities I've had my life whereas if they graduate from a university in Ecuador they're going to be very limited in what they can do in their lives so um I'm getting ready to uh to fly back to the US and start a um pretty exciting job um I wouldn't I wouldn't leave the farm here and this peaceful lifestyle for for any job um I am getting ready to go work in the Solar industry so I'm an electrician those of you that have been following the channel know this I've been uh doing some of the most extreme and demanding electrical jobs around the world for the the past over a decade going to places like Afghanistan and Antarctica and Greenland and all over the world and I'm taking that background that skill that history and getting into the um solar industry a little outside of my experience and my knowledge I'm I'm going to go become a commissioning expert for utility scale solar inverters so I had a couple really good job offers one of them was to go work for Tesla and be their um their electrical lockout tagout expert go around their Giga Factory in Austin and whenever somebody needs power shut off I'm the guy that goes out there turns it off tests make sure it's off follows all those procedures and that kind of sounded like a decent job but right at the same time as I got that job offer I got this offer to go work in um all over the US basically traveling from one week to the next next or one month to the next to solar Farms commissioning solar inverters basically going and taking this utility scale these huge solar inverters and before I turn them on testing them Mak making sure they're not wired wrong they're not going to blow up in my face and uh after I test everything and make sure there's not going to be a catastrophic failure turning them on and uh then and going through their software and electrical components and making sure not only are they not going to blow my face off but they're also going to work correctly so that's the work I'm about to go do and I'm about to go do that for man guys I'm about to go make pretty good money I'll be not making I'll make more but I'll be keeping after paying taxes and and the various little costs I have living in the US I'll be keeping more money than I did working as an overseas contractor so the one of the jobs I interviewed was to go back one of the jobs I interviewed for was to go back to the sandbox was to go to Baghdad go work on a facility in Iraq and that paid about1 $100,000 a year which these days that that's not a lot of money paid about 100,000 a year it's cool because you know I'm not going to be paying for an apartment I'm not going to be paying for my food um my first $100,000 more less in the US is tax-free because I have the overseas earned income exemption and I wouldn't be paying taxes to Iraq either because of the log cap program but I've got this job offer to go make 150,000 in the US and my housing will be paid for I'm I'm going to stay in airbnbs and hotels for the foreseeable future Right company pays for it as long as I'm working with them and I'm traveling they give me a credit card to pay for my food so at the end of the day I can make more I can keep more I can put more in the bank working this job in the US than I can doing overseas Contracting and I always look at how much do I keep not how much do I make not what is the pay per hour that's useless how much do I keep how much do I put in the bank and this is the best job opportunity that I've that I've ever come across right so um it is a very in demand industry there's a lot of growth there is a very high likelihood that I will grow with this company and I will um I won't be back here on my beautiful little farm for maybe a year more likely longer so that's what's happening that's my update that's what's going on in my world um my next few videos are probably going to be about the reverse culture shock of moving back to the US living overseas for several years and then going back to the belly of the Beast