Going to work abroad: an exciting opportunity or a scary one?
Being a student, once upon a time, I was walking in my university campus and saw a poster hanging on a wall. The poster's main point was "Leaving your own homeland to raise money quickly you'll get into a slavery". The text scared me off working abroad and realising my dreams about overseas countries. Since more than ten years has passed and now I'm living and working in a foreign state. Of course, there are some advantages and disadvantages to work outside of your homeland.
The first and the main advantage it is priceless experience. In many former Soviet republics specialists having experience of working abroad are excellent in their competitions.
The next advantage is new colleagues or contacts. If a person worked for many companies in ones own native state and had some connections from the companies then the foreign company may bring more interesting and perspective contacts than all the previous employers.
The last advantage it is an enormous portion of information and memories about the overseas country. It is geography, history, cuisine, architecture, etc.
Without disdvantage it is not possible to get the whole picture about work and living conditions somewhere abroad.
At first it is food. I remember myself when I used to eat different popular and traditional for our region meals. And, being abroad, I remember my disappointment when I wasn't able to find juicy beef and some equipment to cook my favourite food.
The second and more dreadful factor is climate. When I was used to live in hot summer and frosty winter, moving to another country was a kind of challenge. To observe rainy January, for instance, is like something unusual and it requires a few years for a complete adaptation.
And the scariest factor is culture. People can demonstrate other behavioral reaction as a response to an action, can show other emotions. The public service may work slower.
Generalizing all above the written, work in overseas countries is not a slavery and something unusually supernatural. It will bring useful experience, new and perspective contacts, huge pile of knowlege about the state. And such experince will bring a lot of memories in the future.