Though the contract is only for a year, the couple didn't hesitate

At 13.5 percent, Greece's unemployment rate may not be as bad as Spain's but Rosetta Stone it continues to rise and is forecast to reach at least 14.6 percent this year. Unemployment among young Greeks is higher still. Little wonder that in a survey for a center-left newspaper last August, seven out of 10 Greek college graduates said they wanted to work abroad. Not since the aftermath of World War Two, when Greeks fled poverty for a better life in places like the United States and Australia, are so many in the Mediterranean nation looking abroad for their future prospects.A NEW CHANCEJust before Christmas, the Katharakis got lucky. After months of searching for a job as bills piled up, George was offered work on the island of Crete, where Georgia's parents live. The job -- the health ministry finally opened up some positions in public hospitals -- will pay about 2,500 euros a month including overtime and weekend shifts. Though the contract is only for a year, the couple didn't hesitate. They moved to Crete in mid-January, leaving behind their flat -- the folders of medical cases for George's PHD piled up on the large dining table, wedding pictures Rosetta Stone German now in boxes -- in case their stay in Crete is not extended.The past year has been tough, Georgia says. It will take some months to get back to where they were financially. The couple had to spend nearly a third of Georgia's salary to pay private day-care for Kalliopi after staffing cuts meant they could not get her into the local public day-care center. They cut out all spending but the minimum -- food and what they needed for the house.Without the support of their parents, Georgia says, they would have had much bigger problems. Even with George's new job, the couple remains anxious."Even now we don't know what the future will be like because the job is just for one year," Georgia said just before the couple left for Crete.They may yet join the growing wave of emigration. "It's a very big decision because we like our country, and our parents and our friends are here," George says. Then there's the idea of adjusting to a new place with its different customs and language. He asks his little girl to say the only word she knows in English."Fish," Rosetta Stone Spanish (Latin America) she says. (Reporting by Ingrid Melander; Editing by Dina Kyriakidou and Simon Robinson)- - - -ROMANIA: For those who avoided the debt party, hope for a better year aheadBy Luiza IlieBUCHAREST - Mariana Stefanescu is fresh off a 24-hour shift as a neurosurgery nurse at a Bucharest state hospital.

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