The easy solution is to decide where you want to work and then get the relevant licences.
If you go to the US to start with then you MUST take the cost of conversion into account. Otherwise you end up in the fools' paradise you're in now.
As Pprune Towers pointed out, the situation is as bad or worse in other professions but one day you may be in a position to do something about it.
So learn by my lot,
(Which I know you will not,)
And learn about women(flying) from me!