Working Overseas/ Expat jobs

[Jan SobieskiParticipant 28791]

Does anyone do this or have advice in how to get a job overseas? Pros or cons? Any advice is welcome.

Post red pill, I have no reason to live here, so why not give it a shot.

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[BigDParticipant 3024]

USAJobs.com
Indeed.com
Have a clearance
Be in some kind of good shape
Don’t be married
Don’t have kids
Be prepared to walk away from everything in the States
Be prepared to have fun if you decide to see what South East Asia is like
Save as much as you can while working
Be prepared to meet some of the best people on Earth
Be prepared to meet some of the worst people on Earth

Don't stick your dick into anyone you aren't willing to put up with for eighteen years and nine months.

[OldBillParticipant]

BigD covered many of the important points, so I’ll just mention a few more and expand on others. FWIW, I’ve worked overseas (that is, outside the US) and many years fell somewhere between a man on a limited business trip and a man who truly became an expat. Putting it another way, I was gone for months rather than days/weeks or life.

Work Visas – You don’t expat on a tourist visa obviously. If you’ll be working, you’ll need to purchase a work visa and your employee most “prove” to the government in question that your skills can’t be sourced within the country in question. How much work visas cost, how easily there are granted, and how long they last will vary by country and job. If you’ve been headhunted or hired while still in the US, the company in question will handle all the visa hurdles. If you’re going out on your own, you’re on your own. Don’t get caught working on a tourist visa.

Taxes – If you keep your US citizenship, you’re going to be paying federal and state taxes. That last bit is important because the Feds usually wave their taxes up to a certain level of income. While the number varies from year to year as Congress routinely is bribed to fiddle with it, it’s generally between 60 and 100K USD. State taxes are rarely forgiven, however, even if your state indexes it’s taxes to federal taxes. Unless you happen to be one, you’re going to need an accountant or tax professional.

Mail Services – If you’re keeping your US citizenship, you’ll still need a legal address in the US for all sorts of things. PO boxes and e-mail accounts won’t cut it for legal purposes. Fortunately, there are trustworthy and longstanding address and mailing forwarding services because people have been working as expats for centuries. If the firm employing you overseas is headquartered in the US or has a US presence, they’ll usually have address/mail forwarding services.

Car(s), Household Goods, and Personal Effects – Sell them. Seriously. Importing them to your new home will be a bitch, you’ll be paying for storage for years while waiting, you pay huge import fees, and you’re electronics most likely will require different power frequencies and plugs. Apart from a limited number of your most personal keepsakes, sell and/or ditch everything else.

There is a huge amount of information available about becoming an expat available online and an equally huge number of employment sites. BigD mentioned two good ones and I’ll add roadwarriorjobs.us

If you’re going to do it, you have to commit 100% percent. You cannot dip your toe in, you need to do a cannonball.

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[KeymasterKeymaster]

I worked overseas – started my first “real” job there at 18 but I was offered the job here and so everything was arranged and handled. I travelled there for 3 months first to “get” it, but I didn’t have any issue with papers.

I believe the US is the only country in the world where you need to clear US customs wherever you are – BEFORE you get on the plane – and you are scrutinized before the flight. Other countries you clear when you arrive.

Brazil is now doing something similar and you need a visa well in advance – just to travel there. I hate all that visa s~~~.

I had another international job which involved a lot of travel and preparing for that (shots to go to Brazil etc.) was a headache, but all in all , once you GET the job, the logistics will probably be handled by someone else.

Having lived in six-cites internationally, the “migrating” is not pleasant and can be a pride-swallowing siege that leaves you in a state of uncertainty. How long will it take? Will it be a problem? Are those people doing their best to help me? Should I sign a lease? What are my rights if I get fired? Can I get another job there? How long will I stay? Should I make plans? Should I bother buying furniture? How long will this take?

Getting the jobs was not the challenge as much as the unnerving experience of the details — and not having any footing for extended periods of time.

Otherwise, I always felt the world was too big a place for me to stay put – certainly not in my home town. I NEEDED to get out and see as much as possible. It was a calling, so I tolerated a lot.

If you keep doing what you've always done... you're gonna keep getting what you always got.

[VerityPhantomSpectator 263]

@jan.Sobieski Well I’m not sure if you are affluent in any particular languages or have a desire/talent to learn any. But I hear people who learn Japanese and go there make lots of money and do well for themselves. As for other languages like Spanish I hear it’s more of a egalitarian cause for South America/Mexico. I considered such options as well, but I don’t want to downgrade myself to a THIRD class citizen in some other country lol.

[uchibenkeiParticipant 7965]

I work in Kuwait and I’ve worked in Japan and Thailand. Money wise, Kuwait has been the best because there are no taxes but there is also nothing to do here for fun. Life can get very expensive if you try to have fun.

Thailand is a lot of fun but salaries are s~~~ unless you get hired abroad.

Japan is expensive, salaries are good. If you are hired abroad you can have a very nice life.

I only recommend any of these places if you’re single, no kids. Education is expensive and only decent quality if it’s a private and/or international school.

I bathe in the tears of single moms.

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