But the war is making her reconsider. She might return home and start a small business with her husband. She has reason to be worried.
One of the first victims of the conflict was 32-year-old Filipina Mary Ann Veolasquez, who worked as a caregiver in Israel.
The Israeli embassy in Manila said she was injured while leading her patient to safety, after a ballistic missile struck her apartment in Tel Aviv.
According to the International Labour Organisation (ILO), the region hosts 24 million migrant workers, making it the world’s top destination for overseas labour. Most of them come from Asia – India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, the Philippines and Indonesia. Many of these workers take low paid or precarious jobs, and have little access to things like healthcare, the ILO says, external.
At least 12 South Asian migrant workers have died so far as a result of the conflict, according to reports.
The war’s mounting fatalities include Dibas Shrestha, a 29-year-old Nepali who worked as a security guard in Abu Dhabi. He died in an Iranian strike on 1 March.
“I tried to convince him to move back to Nepal, but he said he liked his job in Abu Dhabi, and that he had a good life,” his uncle Ramesh told the BBC.
“We have many relatives who’ve moved to the Gulf for work, so we were very worried for all of them,”
When the war started, Shrestha assured his family it was safe. In a post on Facebook, he wrote that watching the news had made him “concerned” but he also felt, “The news sometimes presents exaggerated or misleading information”.
His uncle said Shrestha had been saving up to rebuild his parents’ home after it had been damaged in an earthquake in 2015 that killed hundreds.
“He was their only son,” Ramesh added. “So kind, and very smart.”