How was the visa process?
Did you go there with company sponsorship, or are you related to a citizen?
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How was the visa process?
Did you go there with company sponsorship, or are you related to a citizen?
Electrical Engineering. Working an average of about 140-150hrs overtime a month, so yeah...better pull up your socks when you wanna come across.
I was offered a job by a Norsk company while still living in SA. It made the whole process MUCH easier with a job offer. Obviously education helps as well. Since my degree is on their critical shortage list they offered me a 3yr residence instead of the usual 1yr. Nice part is I don't have to renew it and when it lapses Iæm eligible for permanent rez. So yeah, working hard but for a company that actually gives a damn about its staff...and everything you do is YOUR accountability, there's no lesser workers to do the heavy lifting for you. I'm profressionally registered with ECSA yet here I am sweeping floors when I'm done with commissioning to tidy up etc, wearing overalls etc. yet nobody looks down on you because skilled blue collar salaries are on par if not above white collar. I absolutely love that. Also, Iæm paying more tax now than what I grossed in SA, but I dont mind it because I can see where the tax is going...and its not Nklanda.
Good luck!
Yeah - makes sense. I've been here for 16 years now and I keep hoping I'll be able to get out sooner rather than later.
Just do it. We applied for our visas about a year and a half ago and we are planning on making the move mid 2015.
It's the missus who isn't keen on the idea. (The kids and I don't need visas.)
I have emigrated thrice. First to the US, then to SA, and now to Netherlands.
Most difficult thing about leaving is, at first, your family. Afterwards you get used to it.
Come to Netherlands, we all speak englis here.
What type of jobs are there in the Netherlands? Except the usual coffee houses and red light type jobs.
Interesting to know as I am looking in doing an Europe work stint.
Give it time, it will come. If it were up to me alone I would have left a few years back already.
Everything and anything. Especially in the more modern cities like Eindhoven, there are many start-ups funded by the big boys from companies like Philips, and talent is always welcomed and paid. Basically if you got qualifications, you will find a good paying job here.
The taxes are pretty high like in all of Western Europe, but it's actually managed and used properly.
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Sure you can, but I came here to study.
My university (TU/e) has tons of PhD students from overseas, because they let you do it in English. Either that or you can go to the Free University of Amsterdam, which is also excellent. Plus if you are doing a PhD, you get employee status. Which is great.
Vox Populi Vox Dei
High Tory
I have a British passport so technically I could fly out tomorrow. I am unsure as to why I am not using it...
I guess I want some experience here first (still young) but will probably make preparations at a later stage to leave to England.
I guess I want some experience here first (still young) but will probably make preparations at a later stage to leave to England.
OrbitalDawn
Ulysses Everett McGill
Electrical Engineering. Working an average of about 140-150hrs overtime a month, so yeah...better pull up your socks when you wanna come across.
So yeah, working hard but for a company that actually gives a damn about its staff...and everything you do is YOUR accountability, there's no lesser workers to do the heavy lifting for you. I'm profressionally registered with ECSA yet here I am sweeping floors when I'm done with commissioning to tidy up etc, wearing overalls etc. yet nobody looks down on you because skilled blue collar salaries are on par if not above white collar. I absolutely love that. Also, Iæm paying more tax now than what I grossed in SA, but I dont mind it because I can see where the tax is going...and its not Nklanda.
Good luck!
Excellent. Thanks.
Where are you off to?
Bwana, where are you from? You looking to back there?
Van uitstel kom afstel. (If you delay for too long you will eventually cancel it).
Aus.
I've got US and UK citizenship so either place will do - UK would probably be less of a shock to the missus though.