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5.0. "Working Abroad" by GROFE::DARCY (George Darcy) Thu Feb 20 1986 11:33

The following article concerns working abroad in a foreign country.
It was posted in the travel discussion on USEnet by Ehud Reiter.

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Subject: Working Abroad
Posted: 16 Feb 86 21:08:08 GMT
Organization: Aiken Comp Lab, Harvard
 
Summary: A few pointers on working in a foreign country
 
I spent last year (9/84 - 8/85) traveling around the world, and the
previous two years working in Ireland, and would be glad to advise
anyone on either traveling or working abroad.
 
I don't know much about the Australian Working Holiday Visa, but here are
a few general points about people with high-tech (eg computer) skills
working abroad:
 
	1) If the reason you want to work abroad is money, not the
experience, you're probably better off spending some more time working
at home and living as cheap as possible - you'll accumulate money
much faster that way.
 
	2) With computer skills, if you're willing to stay a bit longer
you could quite possibly get a general work permit.  The procedure depends
on the country, but generally you have to get somebody in the destination
country to sponsor you, to say that they need you and can't get a local to
do the job.  Sometimes local consulates can help, sometimes they can't.
I arranged my job in Ireland through my undergraduate college placement
bureau, so that's worth a try.
	The minimum period is often one year, but in some cases may be
as short as 6 months.
 
	3) Depending on your background, you may be able to claim
citizenship and thus the right to work.  For instance, anyone with a
grandparent born in Ireland is entitled to Irish citizenship.
 
	4) Jobs are almost always available on the spot if you just show up
in a country.  These jobs are usually menial and "under-the-table", but this
isn't always the case.  I knew one guy, for instance, who was offered a
programming job on the spot while hitchhiking through Botswana (I didn't
even know they had computers in Botswana ...).
 
	5) There are a few books out on "working your way around the world",
which might be worth looking at, although they're not always very applicable
to someone trying to get computer oriented jobs.
 
 
Whatever you decide, do something.  Traveling and working abroad are both
fantastic experiences, and everything will work out somehow.
 
					Ehud Reiter
					...!seismo!harvard!reiter
					[email protected]
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P.S.  My favorite countries were Iceland, Tanzania, Nepal, and New Zealand -
and, of course, Ireland.