I may have some good advice here. If the job maket is tight in the US, it's even tighter outside the US. I live in Spain, but got my education in the US and worked there for a while. My advice is "Don't come around here". IT Jobs are really low-paid and living expenses are roughtly the same than in the US because of the Euro thing (1 Euro=1 Dollar). Job market is tighter in the US because people don't go abroad since they don't speak any languages, and the schools here produce a lot of graduates (and many people are educated at a M.S. level since almost everybody can attend college here).
And the most important thing, jobs around here are not, I repeat NOT, as interesting as in the US. Most IT jobs here are the equivalent of working in McDonnals even if you graduated in a French cooking school.
m0use wrote:
I'm wondering about the opportunities for Americans in other countries,
Iraq in particular. Yes Iraq! Not that I really want to move to Iraq
but I see Iraq as a country in need of infrastructure or soon to be. Are there companies trying to hire good IT people in Iraq, I haven't
seen many postings and wondered if anyone else had. I would think they
would hae to pay VERY well to get experienced people to go to Iraq, and
with the job market being what it is, this might be a worthwhile
opportunity for some. Having never worked outside the US I wonder how
hard it would be to get a company to sponsor a US citizen to work in the
Middle east or other countries with a drastic need for experienced
people. Anyone have any insight? Or links to job searches for the
middle east?
-- m0use
