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Work Abroad? Not to burst your bubble...
12-30-2011, 04:56 AM
Quote: (12-30-2011 01:01 AM)Aliblahba Wrote:
The worst thing about remote sites is listening to to married guys bitching. Their wives are fucking somone and spending all the money. Ive worked with DOZENS of guys that go back with ZERO in the bank. Some stay here because the wife wont let them come home.
This is the single mans life.
THIS.
There is nothing more aggravating that having to lose an entire day of work because your co-worker had a bad phone call and is spending the next 24 hours paranoid until they can sort it out on the next contact. Then you get to groan to yourself when he goes full beta and is alloting tens of thousands (hundreds of thousands in one case I knew) trying to buy off her loyalty. Then you shake your head and pat him on the back as the inevitable occurs, and he has to burn leave time on divorce proceedings.
Probably sucks to be that chump too.
Bottom-line, if you're leaving behind anything you're going to worry about, DO NOT LEAVE. Life is about choosing your priorities, and working overseas is too huge a commitment to play second-banana to anything not overseas. If this isn't your top priority, DON'T DO IT.
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02-06-2012, 07:08 AM
I have to say there are truths on both the sides. But, its too diverse and too many parameters to discuss.
Some guys are talking blue collar and trades, some guys are talking degree, some technical, some accounting and some financial/ banking, some IT and some non-IT engineering.
Its so variable that I think you got to get specific.
Yes, some companies & countries in certain areas will BOW DOWN & hire US/UK expats for crazy $$$ & packages.
Other places, your US experiences may not be the BEST to handle / manage the LOCAL drama/ staff / operations.
Other places you could be a great resource to be a liason to the western world, others you could be too Americanized for their chaotic way of working..
So when you do step out.. get specifics on the Area of Expertise/ Education & Specifics of getting into that country.
PS: As someone mentioned a Portuguese knowing engineer could not find a company to sponsor work visa after 4 months of living in Brazil.
At the same time, when I asked GM he said its pretty cool & easy as there are lots of expats in SP, but when I applied online to several MNCs, no replies and I realized that the Visa & working Language is an issue. Then again, GM said, he knows of Expats working in SP, who might not have started with knowledge of Portuguese.. SO I've asked him to FIND OUT.. how they got through.. to the companies and so on..
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02-07-2012, 03:24 PM
From my experience if you don't have a security clearance or don't work in IT or banking, the chances of you getting a high paying job overseas is nill. And even when you work in IT and/or banking, a lot of the time you have to compete with locals that are just as qualified. Working a clearance job for the US gov't is increasingly becoming the only way to work overseas and make a decent living.
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02-07-2012, 07:19 PM
Even in investment banking/wealth management I'm not sure that it's easy to transition abroad. At least not from the U.S. to a south american country. I'd love to be proven wrong on that though.