So my big plan for next year is to try and get employed in an automation engineering firm in Germany, and move over there for a few years.
But in the last couple of days I've been feeling isolated and lonely, and that has got me wondering whether the move is a good idea or not. On one hand I realise these feelings are temporary and related to having not had enough sleep lately, on the other hand it worries me that I won't have any existing network of friends or activities, and that could lead to me being a shut-in.
Why do I want to go:
-I would like to try living in a different city/environment
-I feel that if I were outside my comfort zone I may achieve more socailly/vocationally (an all-in because I have nothing to loose and everything to gain in a new city)
-Germans have a really good engineering reputation and I'd like to develope that kind of work ethic
-Automation is fun and interesting (and I not-so secretly want to make Von-Neumann machines to dominate the universe!)
-I would like to get the EU equivilent to the Certified Practicing Engineer accreditation and that requires fluency in two european languages (ie i learn Germamn and know English)
-Europe is bigger socailly, socio-politically, culturally and so on... more interesting opitunities.
-I feel like I'm in a rutt I cant get out of in Melbourne, coasting on what I have already managed without any impetus to improve my situation.
Cons:
-If I get in trouble financially etc, I'm a long way from home/help.
-Foriegners dont get as much help from governments as locals
-What if I don't make any friends?
-What about the people I leave behind?
-How will I talk to people if I can't communicate like a first language (some people may suggest this will improve my chances of making friends :P)
There is a list of things that must be done before I can go overseas tho anyway:
-Finish Masters
-Get Passport
-Get Job
3 comments:
Why don't you try learning some German now? That way you won't be completely hopeless once you go there. Chances are there will be someone who speaks enough English for you to communicate, but that limits the number of friends you can make to the people who speak English. Plus, aren't foreigners always more attractive? =P
Or, if you had the money, maybe you could do some backpacking there for a while. Then you can meet people in a non-work context who you might be able to ask for help if you ever move to Germany.
Lastly, you can lurk German chat sites or something and chat up a rich, lonely German woman who will pay for your ticket to Germany and everything else and you won't need to work.
Asif I could con a lonely German... will have to work on it.
lol, I realise that most of the pros were my pros when I moved to r'hampton. except for the whole reputation and great work ethics part :p. but then, how do you know unless you try ? also I find that all countries/ places / ppl have similar aspects, ie. you find similar personalities/ situation no matter where you are. unless you change yourself changing your environment doesn't really help. that's my 2 cents worth, but if you did go I would definitely come to visit :P . tc mw
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