My first note - "Going to work abroad - an exciting opportunity or a scary one"
Hi Everyone,
This is my first note. It wasn't easy but it was very exciting.
I want to ask you to correct me, because I think that when we make mistakes, we learn a lot from them.
Thank you in advance.
Recently I have been thinking about the opportunity to go abroad - not only for higher salary but also for a better standard of life. I had never thought seriously about this step in my life, but when I became a father in 2013 everything has changed and is still changing.
Lots of my friends have gone to work and live abroad. Some of them are happy and satisfied, some of them are frustrated and sad.
One of my ex-colleagues went to New York 2 years ago to study and work there. At the beginning he was surprised and stunned by the chaos of the city. After a while he changed his mind and told me that New York was the center of the world. He started to work as a recruitment agent, and after a 3 months he has promoted to Senior Agent. As he shared with me about the life there, there are many advantages to going abroad. Some of them are:
1. You can't bribe police with 20 BGN
2. There are not employee aunties (?) in Municipality with their bad mood
3. The Ambulances don't delay by 40 minutes, because they don't have fuel or they don't get their 450 BGN salary
4. Where the dreams come true if you work hard
5. Where every neighbor says: "Good Morning"
6. Where when you ask someone "How are you", they don't answer just with "So-So"
7. Where in the pavements when you are happy and smile to everyone they don't think you are crazy.
8. Where….
But on the other hand there are some Disadvantages:
He lives a few miles from his workplace and he has to travel 2 hours every day. He is far away from his family and best friends, he is a foreigner, the city is too busy, the traffic is awful, and so on.
But generally I think that going to work abroad could be a big opportunity. However, you have to be flexible, to be willing to change, to speak English, otherwise you could be unhappy and your experience could be a scary one
