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Programming Jobs Abroad For a US Citizen?
An anonymous reader writes "I am a American citizen with a masters in Computer Science from a 3rd tier college and 4 years of work experience under my belt. I would like to work somewhere abroad in Europe for a couple years before I get too settled in life but have no clue where to start. I only speak English but would love to learn a second language. What sort of opportunities are there for American citizens to work abroad? What countries offer the best opportunity to balance a challenging work environment with enough vacation to explore the rest of Europe in my free time? Any hassles I should know about?"
Your dollars aren't worth anything over here. We don't like you. Indians are cheaper and speak better English. Long vacations are a myth. Thanks to you bozos we have to work harder and longer to pay for oil.
and the higher tax rates will encourage productive members of society to relocate elsewhere.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
outside of academia, nobody really cares where you went to school only what you can actually do.
If you really believe that, you are desperately naive.
Of course, expecting any real knowledge of the way the world works from someone who thinks it's clever to paraphrase a well-known Nazi quote in his .sig is probably a bit of a stretch.
The correlation between ignorance of statistics and using "correlation is not causation" as an argument is close to 1.
Who cares what foreigners think?
LK
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exactly! People come here to make more money and have more job opportunities. Companies hire people in other countries to pay them less. Americans go to Europe because they're liberal douchebags and Starbucks in the US wasn't enough for them. They come back and tell EVERYONE how awesome they are for being a sophisticated world traveler who hung around Europe for a few years and watch fine arts related performances and drank fancy wine and ate fancy wood and met weird people. Okay that and they do it to evade taxes and do drugs. So stay here.
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True that. Asking a Parisian your way is the same as insulting him. The country folk, on the other hand, will only have a problem with you if your skin complexion is too dark to their taste -- then they might think you're a Muslim or something.
P.S.: Those are what friends of mine told me upon returning from their journey to metropolitan France. Plus those were the nicest part of their respective stories.
"The body may heal, but the mind is not always so resilient." -- Deus Ex: Human Revolution
The difference is that English is the language of global communication. It's not a second language, it's a basic skill that is taught to prepare the person for just such an occasion, whether that be a Frenchie in Fair Rapids, or a Kiwi in Clermont. All little French children, as well as little Dutch, German, Czech, Italian, and Russian kids are all taught English in school because it is the defacto standard for communication. For bonus points, I'm a German living in the Czech Republic working for an international company. Languages work like this here, the older people speak German, the middle aged English and broken Russian, and the younger people speak English.
Even when he got re-elected, it was roughly 25% of the population who elected him. Sure, 50% opted to not vote at all, but still, a majority did not vote for him. And while I will gladly argue the matter with the people who actually did vote for him, I won't blame those who did not.
I was trying to avoid the fray, but I can't, I'll just have to jump in. You see, I am American, and one of the reasons why Europeans love to bring up Bush/Cheney and all the rest is because it will get a rise out of us. Europeans are meek, it seems, when it comes to criticizing their own politicians in front of Americans, but not vis-versa.
One of the reasons, in my opinion, that many Europeans show contempt for America is the crass poor cowboys have grown up to be a real power in just a few years after Europe's self destruction in two world wars. The EU is an attempt to gather all of Europe together and compete against the US. So far it is working, but just barely. It's not working because of European brilliance but because of American stupidity. Whether the EU can continue to make progress is another question entirely. I think it's reached its limits for now, and is well-positioned to overcome the US if the US continues to screw up, and the EU overcomes its energy problem (Russia).
sorry, but caning is so very cruel to typical americans.
chew gum? its illegal there. it sounds VERY harsh, overall, and americans won't be willing to put up with such bad treatment, basically over-reactions to non-issues.
I'd never even want to travel there, let alone work or live there. sorry if that offends, but your legal system is actually WORSE than ours; and that's saying a lot..
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