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Friday 190: Is anyone aside from the same 3 people ever gonna start a Friday thread?? (pg. 5)
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| JEO |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
Since there's some actually top quality tips in this thread, let me get this opportunity to ask a few things:
It's about my bro.
He's got the education, he's got the job (front-end designer/developer who occasionally has to give back-end programmers a hand, and been doing that for 8 years or so), and he wants to emigrate to France, the US or somewhere exotic like Germany. And, yet, he seems to have some difficulty finding opportunities in these countries. Have you guys got any tips I could give him? |
I don't really have any advice for this, since my experience is solely from Finland, but Finland is in need of thousands of IT people, so.. If he's ready for this grey blandness we here call life, I think someone here is happy to have him. I find it hard to believe any European country would have too many IT people, especially experienced devs, so there must be demand in at least some of the countries you've mentioned. I could be way wrong though.
I also think, and as Jon_Snow already said, it's worth considering if one really wants to move to a new country for a job anyway. Most of the people he'd be getting to know would be from work, and in my experience, work-buddies tend to grow to hate each other over the years. And even if you don't develop that hate, people at least here tend to keep a kind of barrier up with work-buddies, so they don't up their work life. This of course excludes the Bacchanalia-like get-togethers around summer and Christmas. Don't know how that would be in, for example, Germany, but in our company there's this silent code, that getting drunk in a sauna ~5 times a year with your work-buddies is more than enough.
Regarding your brother being shy/introverted: we actually hired a very competent dev recently who arrived to his interview with a state-subsidized assistant because he was so shy. No idea if other countries make this possible, but to me it seems like a very good thing in IT recruitment. |
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| Lews |
| Meh, speak for yourselves; I'm an expat and I never want to move back to where I'm from. |
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| JEO |
| I'd move for uni, not for work. School friends are sometimes 4 lyfe. |
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| Dykes_on_Jay |
| quote: | Originally posted by Jon_Snow
The short answer it’s difficult. The usa caps h1b 85,000 which sounds like a lot but a quarter of million apply. Trump is also working to further limit it.
The only time it makes sense for employers to go through the extra hassle and expense is when they can’t find enough qualified candidates. I think it’s easier to get an education visa to experience another culture.
While it might sound exciting I think it’s a bit of the grass is greener on the other side. After the novelty wears off, being separated from your friends and family he’ll want to return home. It’s one thing vacationing abroad and quite another working and living permanently.
https://www.wbur.org/bostonomix/201...1b-visas-debate |
I just got my green card. Sunglasses.jpeg |
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| Jon_Snow |
| quote: | Originally posted by Dykes_on_Jay
I just got my green card. Sunglasses.jpeg |
I thought you got Yellow card. If you not better behave you’ll get Red card. :p |
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| wotyzoid |
| Damn Jay, you're slipping bro. |
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| Dykes_on_Jay |
Technically the same.
Investors visas are the rage with chinese. Wife wants america, so..
She doesnt like cold.
Easier to get a green card that way. |
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| wotyzoid |
What? You're gonna move here? Where is it not cold? Florida? Texas?
What I wanna know is what's up with you legally...
Edit: Did you sneak in a BlackBerry into the chinese prison system?
I'm killing it with these blackberry jokes |
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| ziptnf |
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| Dykes_on_Jay |
A million buck loan at 3 percent to the gov over 5 years is instant green card.
No, its not my cash. I dont have a million bucks.
Im not doxxing where. Lets just say its chinese as and warm. |
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| wotyzoid |
| California probably. Good luck with everything, hopefully it all works out. |
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| Dykes_on_Jay |
It always does.
Sieg heil.👊 |
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