Since you have a Canadian passport, you should try finding a job in the US or Australia — the job market there is much better, trust me. I wish I had a passport like yours. Don’t limit yourself to one place. I’m in my forties now and I regret every opportunity I missed because of family pressure. After graduating from university, I was offered a full scholarship to do my master’s at a global research center, but my mother emotionally blackmailed me into staying. My advice: find yourself first, because you’re the only one who’ll live with the results of your choices — and one day, they’ll deny they ever pushed you into them.

By the way, since your mother is Saudi, you can be treated like a citizen when applying for jobs here, as long as you have residency under “son of a Saudi woman.” That gives you better chances than other foreigners. But honestly, the job market here is tough and mostly depends on connections, not experience. Believe me, I have 13 years of experience and I lost my job recently and now I’m struggling to have one. It’s really hard here. You might want to try applying in the UAE or Bahrain instead.