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?"

Comments

elect obama

[Anonymous Coward]

that is the only way any foreigners will be able to stomach americans again.

Re:elect obama

[omeomi]

Right, because wrecking the economy to the point that my house, investments, and *US dollars* are worth less than they used to be, and the price of gasoline and food are way more than they used to be is _so_ much better than raising taxes. You might also be interested to know that McCain's health plan involves taxing the insurance premiums your employer pays for your health insurance, an amount that is currently untaxed. So, McCain is effectively for raising taxes. While you are living in this fictional world where Republicans are "fiscal conservatives", and Democrats "tax and spend", I think I'll take a look at real evidence to the contrary.

Re:elect obama

[caerwyn]

Ahh.. not having heard of someone before an election is, in fact, reason to make some assumptions about the individual's qualifications. In addition, once someone comes onto the political stage, a reasonable background information packet is assembled quite rapidly- so the fact that someone hasn't been heard of prior to the current political environment is hardly enough, by itself, to preclude people from forming rapid (and often accurate) opinions about the individual.

But that doesn't help your quest to label people as "group-think"-ers and idiots. Sorry. Is my rationality interfering with your political agenda?

Re:elect obama

[thealsir]

"Not being heard of before" was one of Obama's problems too. At least he was relatively unknown compared to McCain. While were' making assumptions, I'm going to assume you support Obama. What makes his inexperience any less questionable than Palin's?

The only way you can really defend yourself is if you back down from the argument that a formerly unknown person is automatically bad.

You claim to be rational, but in reality you're appealing to rationality.

Re:elect obama

[caerwyn]

I didn't say that being relatively unheard of was necessarily bad. It does indicate things about the person, however, and denying that (regardless of who you're talking about) is simply silly.

You also completely failed to respond to my point that someone's background is researched rather rapidly once they come under the political spotlight. Consider it open source in action in politics- with so many eyes, everything's bound to come out.

So, yes, I am in fact being rational. You'll also note that I didn't actually make any comments either way about any political candidate in my post. Nor have I in this one. I'm merely pointing out that rapid decisions are not necessarily invalid, and that ignoring the fact that someone is a relative unknown is throwing away *potentially* useful information about them. I never said it was bad- please quote me if you think I did.

Re:elect obama

[thealsir]

I was saying it in relation to GGGP. If what you are saying is valid for Palin, why not Obama? You could argue that you're being general, but not in relation to the GGGP post.

Re:elect obama

[Anonymous Coward]

The reason I'm not voting for him has nothing to do with what color he is. If someone was experienced, believed the same things I did, and didn't accidently refer to use as the "57 states" (as in the 57 ISLAMIC states rather than the 50 UNITED states), I'd vote for him even if he were green. Stop making race the issue, that's so shallow, when in reality his bullshit goes much, much deeper.

Hassles you should know abou

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, they all speak with weird accents. Why can't they just speak english and accept american currency!!

Re:What opportunities for a European in the USA

[syousef]

Yes, grammatical errors and the misuse of words will happen when you're tired and posting on an internet forum. /. is becoming hilarious. I say something unpopular and as a result a few people mark me troll and 3 people correct my grammar. I've got a son that's one month old. If you've got kids you know why I'm tired. If you don't, you probably will one day.

Linus Torvalds

[Nymz]

Ahh.. not having heard of someone before an election is, in fact, reason to make some assumptions about the individual's qualifications.

Are you telling me, that if someone had never heard of Linus Torvalds, then you wouldn't doubt that "individual's qualifications" to make authoritative comments regarding Linux?

Here is what they would sound like:

• Hey look, the only graphic interface I've ever seen is Windows, so I'll post it's a fact they copied it from Microsoft.
• Hey look, I've never heard of a governor from Alaska, so based on what I know about her picture, I'll post that she is hawt.

Re:They probably have more regulations

[LKM]

Just wait until the recession fully kicks in; there will be plenty.

Nope. There will be plenty of unemployed poor programmers. But we will always be needing good software engineers.

In fact, since comp sci student numbers are going down where I live, while open jobs are going up, demand for good software engineers will increase during the next decade.

Re:English at work countries...

[thealsir]

Yeah but I got modded funny so whatever.

Re:You're wrong

[LKM]

You will never take me alive! By actually eating this non-Italian pizza, I will ensure that I will die quickly (and, unfortunately, under considerable pain).

Why?

[LKM]

Oh! Oh, I know the answer to this one.

Because it's fucking ludicrous, you twat.

And why is it fucking ludicrous?

Wait, I'm forgetting something here... Oh, I got it: I forgot to insult you, you twat.