Should he travel to kaafir countries or work in a tourist resort?
Question

                I am a student in business college, in the fourth year. I would like to finish my studies as quickly as possible so that I can achieve two goals: 

1-     To respond to urgent family needs

2-     To start my own life plans 

I have two options ahead of me: 

1-     To work, starting from next summer (in an area far removed from my speciality), in a seaside resort, for a high salary.

2-     To travel to any western country where I intend to complete my studies, and at the same time I will do any work to pay for the cost of my studies as well, until I reach my goal. 

I hope that you can advise me as to which I should choose. The problem with both options is that I am a single young man and I fear fitnah for myself, but I am wondering how committed Muslim youth can live in western societies.
Praise be to Allah.Firstly: 
We 
    appreciate your keenness to find halaal work and to seek advice, and your 
    eagerness to meet your family’s needs. We ask Allaah to help you to do that 
    which is best for you and will bring you happiness in this world and in the 
    Hereafter.
Secondly: 
As you are 
    studying in the business college, you have to look for work that is 
    permissible, because opportunities for halaal work in such fields are few. 
    Most companies and organizations nowadays deal in riba (usury) and insurance 
    and other haraam transactions, which makes working as an accountant in them 
    a kind of helping them in sin and transgression. 
Thirdly: 
Travelling 
    to western countries poses many dangers to man’s religious commitment and 
    morals. It is rare for a person to travel there and preserve his religious 
    commitment and not lose it, because of the false ideas and views that 
    prevail in those countries, and the deviant behaviour and morals that are so 
    obvious to everyone that some of their own wise men are warning against the 
    consequences of them. 
Hence one of 
    the beauties of our wise sharee’ah is that it forbids the Muslim to settle 
    in the kaafir lands. This has been explained in the answer to several 
    questions, such as 10338 and
    14235. 
If a person 
    is compelled or needs to travel to these countries then he must fulfil 
    certain conditions in order for his travel to be permissible, the most 
    important of which is that he should have sufficient knowledge to protect 
    himself against specious arguments and he should have sufficient religious 
    commitment and taqwa (piety, fear of Allaah) to protect himself against 
    desires. He should take his wife with him if he cannot protect himself 
    against desires in any other way.  
You mention 
    that you are a single man, and you fear temptation for yourself. Therefore 
    you should not go ahead and risk your religious commitment. 
Fourthly: 
With regard 
    to working in a seaside tourist area in an area far removed from your 
    specialty, undoubtedly that is better than going to a kaafir land, but you 
    must pay attention to the following: 

    1-The nature of the work must be 
    permissible.

    2-It must be far away from places 
    of fitnah, such as if the work involves free mixing or if the area where it 
    is located is known for corruption and immorality because it is a tourist 
    area.

    3-Your work should not be a help 
    to any of those tourists in doing evil, because in that case you would be a 
    partner in sin with them.
If the work 
    is free from these issues, then there is nothing wrong with it, in sha 
    Allaah. 
We ask 
    Allaah to help you and guide you. 
With regard 
    to your question: how can committed Muslim youth live in western societies? 
Undoubtedly 
    they suffer a great deal, and many of them regret going to those countries. 
    You will find many of their problems mentioned in questions submitted to 
    this site. But we do not deny that some of them are committed to their 
    religion and in some cases travel was better for them, but these cases are 
    very few. 
We ask 
    Allaah to make us and the Muslims steadfast in adhering to His religion 
    until we meet Him. 
And Allaah 
    is the Source of strength.