{"id":1414,"date":"2021-09-02T07:33:19","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T07:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/menuothebrand.com\/?p=1414"},"modified":"2022-01-26T07:35:50","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T07:35:50","slug":"agnes-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/menuothebrand.com\/lt\/2021\/09\/02\/agnes-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Agne\u2019s story: in your deathbed, you\u2019ll only regret the opportunities you missed, not that you didn\u2019t work enough."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Storytime! Meet Agne. After spending 6 years in university and working two jobs, she went to New Zealand to live in the van and work in the fields picking berries. She shares her adventures and learned lessons.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n<\/div>\n

My love for travelling started after Work&Travel USA when I spent 4 months in the USA in 2017. I was still in my last year of master’s degree studies when I returned from the USA. I found a visa for New Zealand; I was thinking about Australia, but it was just for studies. After 6 years in university, I didn’t want to jump back straight to studies again, so I decided to go with New Zealand.<\/p>\n

Every year just 100 Lithuanians get this visa; when I tried the first time, I didn’t get it; after one year, I tried again, and this time was successful. The difference between New Zealand and USA was that you are going already with a job vacancy in the USA, and in New Zealand, you were going without knowing anything where you were going to work or live. This kind of visa allows you to work and live in New Zealand for 1 year; but because of Covid-19, the government extended our visa for one more year.<\/p>\n

Before going to New Zealand, I was working as a QC analyst in one pharmaceutical company laboratory and as a junior scientist in University, so I just quit both of the jobs and left the country just before the new years of 2020!<\/p>\n

We (me and my boyfriend) came to NZ in 2020 January, were working in blueberry picking for almost 3 months. Lockdown kicked us, and we were without any jobs for about 5 weeks, later we found out other simple jobs, saved money for the camper van and started our road trip around NZ in the end of September. We spent 2 months in the North Island and 3 months in the South Island ( all the time living in a camper van). Most of the days we were just changing locations, doing different hikes, and spending time in nature. The craziest thing that I did in New Zealand was diving with the Great white sharks; of course, I was in the cage, but still!<\/p>\n

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