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Westerners Migrating to India for Jobs
shonagon53 writes "The BBC reports that quite a few young European tourists stick around in India to work for eSolutions companies who contract outsourced work from European companies. The salaries are mediocre, but you get free housing, great food, snacks à volonté and a free taxi ride to work each morning.
Is this the first wave of the much anticipated reverse-migration which will be a hallmark of the 21st century?"
Getting a work visa in India is simple: you apply and if you are not on Interpol wanted list and have a employer's job offer, you should expect it in a month.. No other certification or verification is required.
Welcome!
Even if 'the company' is supposed to take care of your visa, it pays to follow up on your own. This advice courtesy the guy who left Ecuador at the unpleasant end of a gun because the company he was working for FUCKED UP!.
In addition to Ecuador, I've worked in China, Japan, Phillipines, Fiji, Tonga, Hong Kong, and Singapore. I hired on outside the USA. Most friends who are working or have worked expat. have hired on outside their home country.
Want an overseas job, take a vacation, get to know the place, visit the company you want to work for. Hang out in the right bars.
Now I'm the grandest Tiger in the Jungle!
Sorry, but having constant diarrhea and eating shitty food is not my idea of fun. Also, Indian chicks don't put out (unless you marry them), which makes matters worse. Then there's the rampant polution and health hazards. India is not a fun place to live no matter how you slice it. Trust me, I am an Indian, and I've visited India enough times to know this.
BTW, in India, diarrhea is so common, it is normal for you to respond to "how are you doing?" with "I have diarrhea"
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In India, medical insurance is only needed for real emergencies. Most people don't have them because most don't need them. Unlike the US, India (and many other countries) have a "radical" approach to medical treatment: You get sick, you visit a doctor or hospital in your price range immediately and they treat you! I believe this approach is called free market or something like that.
Labor laws in India are far stricter and biased towards workers than in the US (India used to be a full-fledged socialist country, remember).
Religious freedom is guaranteed in India. It has been that way for millenia. India has the second highest Muslim population in the world and the highest Christian population in Asia! It is officially a "secular" country with no state religion.
When you are apprehensive about a foreign country, it is a good idea to do some reading up about it.
All your favorite sites in one place!
Check out these other big Indian Job sites-
http://www.naukri.com/
http://www.timesjobs.com/
http://www.jobsahead.com/
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I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer.
Lets demonstrate with some figures.
Indian goes to America, and earns $50,000 per year for two years. He spends $25,000 per year on his living costs, so when he returns to India, he has $50,000 in the bank.
American goes to India, and earns $5,000 per year for two years. He spends $2,500 per year on his living costs, so when he returns to America, he has $5,000 in the bank.
Now lets look at the Indian. He is now living in India with $50,000, which the equivalent of ten years salary in the bank. That is a pretty reasonable sum of money. You are well on your way to being able to retire on that.
What about the American. He is now living in America with $5,000 in the bank. That is the equivalent of about 5 weeks salary. Enough to cover fluctuations in his outgoings and prevent him from going overdrawn. Probably better than a lot of people, but nothing spectacular.
Sorry to say, but if you're asking this type of questions, you're probably not made up for that type of move. BTW, I've lived in Europe, Far-East, now Canada, always "local contract", so I know what I talk about. Back to a good answer, the thing is that if you're young (or young-of-heart), what only matters is that the job pays enough to pay for a decent living. I suppose you read the article, and all those Europeans in India clearly lived well. No hunger, lots of curry, :-) what do you want more!!
.... you'll miss a lot.
When living overseas, the question is most often not about pay, but more if you can get affordable housing. I lived in Singapore, with a typical rent of 5000 per month. So, it becomes important that an employer is helping to overcome that hurdle. Next thing, what are the taxes. For example, I took in Singapore a big pay cut, but taxes were 10-15%. Oh, did I mention that a good dinner outside would set you back less than 5 bucks?
I hope you get the gist. Wages or pay cuts say nothing!! It's about income versus cost of living. And when that works our reasonable enough, you should of course have a little mentality of "carpe diem" and not too much worry about your mutual funds, stocks and such. If the latter is important to you, better stay home. But
Browsers shouldn't have a back button!! It's all about going forward...
India is not a fun place to live no matter how you slice it. Trust me, I am an Indian
I'm an Indian too. I know your kind of people - "India sucks, every other country is better". If I were you I would be ashamed of myself. Looks like your kind of people are more common among Indian IT workers.
and I've visited India enough times to know this.
Exactly. You have visited India, not lived here. People of different countries have different kinds of fun. You can't have the kind of fun you have in USA or Somalia in India.
BTW, in India, diarrhea is so common, it is normal for you to respond to "how are you doing?" with "I have diarrhea"
If slashdot was in India, or if all slashdot mods had visited India, you would have been modded down as troll. This is the first time I'm hearing "Indians have diarrhea". For all the other slashdot readers: This guy deosn't live in India, he has just visited it, so he doesn't know more than any other foreigner who has visited India. If fact he "knows" even less than others because his type of people already have a bad image of India in their minds.
and eating shitty food is not my idea of fun.
This exactly what I am talking about. Calling Indian food shitty is completely baseless. He just thinks it must be bad because its Indian.