25 Aug
2012
25 Aug
'12
5:59 p.m.
Nowadays,
it's not unusual anymore that people are willing to move
to the other side of the globe for a job if it's what they want or
need.
You make it sound as if all that's involved is a plane flight and
shipping your personal belongings. It's not anywhere nearly as
simplistic as that, and hasn't been that way for a long, long time. When I got out of college in 1986, I worked 5 months
in France. I
had to go through a huge amount of bullshit just to do that
short-term work as an employee. I can't even begin to imagine how
much bullshit you have to go through now.
My experience on the subject is a decade old, but when I worked in
Norway (at Universitetet i Troms?) for six months - the second half of
2002 - I had to do remarkably little bullshit hoop-jumping. There are,
of course, many possible reasons my experience differs from yours, but
I have no basis for more than wild speculation which one(s) are
actually behind it.
I suspect the individual variation from case to case is large enough
that few generalizations on the subject are valid.
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