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Packing up and going abroad to work

  • 15-04-2007 12:02am
    #1
    Random
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    Has anyone done this? Packed up their job and everything else in Ireland just headed abroad for a year or two to work / live?

    Any thoughts on it? I really need to get out of this country and get a change of scenery.


Comments

  • #2
    Hal1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,720 ✭✭✭Hal1


    Go do it, what you got here? wish I had the balls to do it. :(


  • #3
    BossArky
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    After uni I went straight to France for a while. Now in London. As a student I worked in Germany and the USA. Had many great experiences, and even the bad ones make you stronger. Go for it.


  • #4
    daveg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,683 ✭✭✭daveg


    Packing up 2 very good jobs, family, friends, school, house, cars. Selling everything to move to Australia end of this year.


  • #5
    thesteve
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    Did it nearly 3 years ago and moved to Germany. Planning on heading home this summer, the grass is always greener and all that... If Germany is a destination you might have on the cards send me a PM, I can give you some links/advice etc that would have benefited me to know before I came...


  • #6
    Imposter
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    I went to Austria. 5 years later i'm still here and no plans to return for now at least.


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  • #7
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    I moved 2 years ago to the US and no plans to move back either, would be mad in the head. :)


  • #8
    Random
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    With the US- you need visas and what not though - is there any other way in beyond the green card lottery / marrying a US citizen ?


  • #9
    Gordon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,524 ✭✭✭✭Gordon


    Quite a few ways but some are difficult.

    Get a company to take you on.
    Invest 50-100,000$ in a company/co-owning a company in the US.
    Go off the books and leave every 3 months while possibly not being allowed back in after 3/4 times.
    Study in the US to attain study visa (need to spend a huge chunk of your time studying/ cost is high).
    If you have a high level of education (PHD for example) staying in the US is easier to do.

    Europe is much easier, I moved to Greece and got a job very easily for example (but then I speak enough Greek to get by).


  • #10
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    The benefit of somewhere like the US is that they all speak English (although, I still had some serious communication issues when I went to NY on holidays lol).

    I've also looked at Germany, I have a splattering of Germany (basic words from Leaving Cert) - hard to get by without the language unless you want a job in McD I'd say?


  • #11
    Gordon
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    You can look into importing businesses. Many businesses deal with China/Pakistan and have to speak perfect English to counteract the sometimes woeful English you will get in Chinese companies. My first job in Greece was in such a place and I could have spoken practically zero Greek to get the job (my CV was completely in English). Everyone around me spoke English and wanted to to improve their English to have better communication with the Chinese/Pakistani companies.


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  • #12
    pikku
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40 ✭pikku


    I've done it numerous times and places - Holland was my most loved experience - I made the best pals of my life and had the best experiences, and it totally was the best thing ive ever done. GO FOR IT!!

    As an earlier poster metioned, even the bad experiences all make you stronger...

    Seriously...Go for it.

    BTW - dont get too hung up on only going to the US/OZ - Europe is huge and full of widely different countries, why not give one of them a go?!

    Enjoy :)


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