Originally posted by fishbuff:i got brits colleagues here and they keep recalling the amount of $$$ they made in london and other european countries. one of them talked about working as a contractor in london for their bank IT projects, work hours are long but the employers will throw money at you. he earned heaps and the exchange rate of pounds to other countries' currency was staggering.
i would love to work in the europe if i can. but with a family, mobility is very limited. imagine, u work in london on weekdays and travel to milan, paris, berlin on the weekends.. shiok!
I would move to London to work over Australia if $ is what we are after.
Only reason holding me back (assuming i don't need to worry abt family) is the cost to enter the property market..... i don't think i can enter the property market there and therefore unable to make good $.
Originally posted by fishbuff:i got brits colleagues here and they keep recalling the amount of $$$ they made in london and other european countries. one of them talked about working as a contractor in london for their bank IT projects, work hours are long but the employers will throw money at you. he earned heaps and the exchange rate of pounds to other countries' currency was staggering.
i would love to work in the europe if i can. but with a family, mobility is very limited. imagine, u work in london on weekdays and travel to milan, paris, berlin on the weekends.. shiok!
I did just that while doing student exchange... But after a while, it became rather sian... The interest will be there for a month or two, but after a while, you will start to feel that everything is very similar... Especially at Paris, when you do not know French, the French can get rather unfriendly towards Asians. Knowing just bonjour and merci is not sufficient. The same goes for certain parts of Berlin, of which it was fortunate that I know sufficient German.
Originally posted by Genie99a:I would move to London to work over Australia if $ is what we are after.
Only reason holding me back (assuming i don't need to worry abt family) is the cost to enter the property market..... i don't think i can enter the property market there and therefore unable to make good $.
I would even move to US to work in Silicon Valley if I was really after all those Westernised dreams and ideals. Anyway I will be working in a US MNC for the next 3 years... with opportunities to go the US facility for training