Getting out while I can!-is finding work abroad impossible?

Another thought. If you are a journalist, why not try to write a series of articles about what you learn about opportunities for young Americans to work abroad compared to the opportunities Canadians have? Or write about your quest for work? Or document your experience when you leave?

Go for it! Maybe you want to check one of my posts regarding that topic:

Essential Tips for Self-Sustainable Permanent Travel

All the best for you fulfilling your dreams! ;-)

I greatly appreciate everyone's replies, opinions and advice. I am indeed looking to MOVE to Ireland for at LEAST a year, and I'll be looking for legitimate work in my media field, (so that I don't feel as if i'm going backwards in my career-especially after this recent promotion) However, I feel that right now just might be the best time in my life for me to try to attempt something completely new....thus I guess I'll just start applying to positions I can find, and see if i'll be able to obtain a work sponsorship. My great-grandparents were born in Ireland, however I don't believe that grants me an ancestry or Irish visa? Here's to hoping!

As a web editor and/or writer, does not the web make the world such a tiny place?

Could you not continue your current duties from Ireland, and in working up a proposition for your company maybe an Irish/American angle for the mag could be seen as a huge circulation/advertisers boost.

You might end up as Chief Ed or another Rupert.

If you are good at what you do then just go, you'll work it out.

Have you been in Ireland in the wintertime? Coming from California, it could be a shocker. Coming from anywhere pleasant, it's a shocker.

#16 - I think the winter might prove to be less shocking than the so-called summer!