We're in South Africa right now. The economy is awful and wages are at a ridiculous bare minimum. At one job, she's earning the equivalent of about US$3/hour. So it's rather common for people here to have multiple jobs.

This is actually another issue we have. Our initial plan when I decided to come here was that we would just work for a year so she could catch up with friends/family and we could both save some money to move on and head to my country where life is much easier. But after realizing what the work situation here is like, I'm not feeling very hopeful anymore. I haven't given up completely, and still apply for jobs every day. I just have no idea what we're going to do. Like I said in my first post, I could have my family help me with flight money to get back to my own country, but that's scary relationship-wise. I absolutely hate the idea of leaving my GF behind. I keep thinking positively like "what if tomorrow is the day I get some kind of work" then at least we can stay together even if it takes us way longer then we first planned to save money and get out of here.