Can find work? Move Overseas

[barbaro]

Interesting article that is putting some specific numbers behind what we already have known and witnessed for the last couple of years. Quite a jump in those living abroad and planning to live & work overseas from before the economic downturn.

How many people do you know who left the US to work/live overseas?

I have 2 relatives and a couple of ol' buddies I grew up with.

Can’t find a job? Move overseas.

By Emily Matchar, Published: November 24

Emily Matchar, author of “Homeward Bound: The New Cult of Domesticity,” is a freelance writer in Hong Kong.

After applying for 279 jobs over two years, my husband finally got the offer he’d been hoping for: a well-paid position teaching philosophy at a respected university. We should have been thrilled. There was just one little thing.

The job was in Hong Kong.

“I feel like we’re being deported from our own country,” my husband said.

“It’ll be an adventure,” I replied, trying to sound game.

“I wasn’t looking for an adventure,” he said. “I was just looking for a job.”

We didn’t know we would be part of a wave of educated young Americans heading overseas in search of better employment opportunities. According to State Department estimates, 6.3 million Americans are studying or working abroad, the highest number ever recorded. What’s more, the percentage of Americans ages 25 to 34 who are planning to move overseas has quintupled in two years, from less than 1 percent to 5.1 percent. Among 18- to 24-year-olds, 40 percent are interested in moving abroad, up from 12 percent in 2007.

In the past, Americans often took foreign jobs for the adventure or because their career field demanded overseas work. Today, these young people are leaving because they can’t find jobs in the United States. They’re leaving because the jobs they do find often don’t offer benefits such as health insurance. They’re leaving because the gloomy atmosphere of the American economy makes it hard to break through with a new innovative idea or business model. “This is a huge movement,” says Bob Adams, president and chief executive of America Wave, an organization that studies overseas relocation.

Stories like ours are everywhere.

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Can’t find a job? Move overseas. - The Washington Post

[OhOh]

Between myself and my three brothers three of us have lived and worked abroad at different stages of our lives.

Let's hope the ones that live in other countries absorb some of the native culture, whilst they are there. It can only help.

[Rigger]

Worked overseas from the age of 25, my little brother also started working international at around age 30. Both oil field trash and proud of it

[lom]

“I wasn’t looking for an adventure,” he said. “I was just looking for a job.”

It will do you good to get out and see a different world you big crybaby.

[DrAndy]

I have always enjoyed working abroad

at first it was just business trips, then when I became an independent, I chose full time expat status

much better living standard, much more money, much better time off and, most importantly, much more interesting

in addition, I have met all my wives whilst an expat (except the first)

[Imminent]

“I feel like we’re being deported from our own country,”

There's another side to this. There are probably a lot of folks with too little in retirement money to live in the US despite working there their entire lives. The numbers of those moving abroad after retiring just to survive must be increasing as well. There's probably a lot of business opportunities in helping folks do this because most Americans are totally ignorant about other countries and doing something like this.

[VocalNeal]

The person in question is not simply looking for a job he's looking for

a well-paid position teaching philosophy at a respected university

There cannot be many of those going around regardless of location. Most people would jump at the chance to work in a different country.