A lot of IT companies in NL hire foreigners. There’s just too little local offer. They throw with work visas as a result, because they’ve never heard about remote-first work being possible after covid. They can’t modernize their work culture because of stupid old fashioned managers and as a result NL has one of the worst housing crisis in Europe. And pay ain’t that good either in a lot of cases, taking into account how much you lose on rent.
the problem is at least on the U.S end, San Jose is part of the Silicon Valley. Talent is not the problem, its the people who ultimately choose to hire is going out of its way to hire talent that seemed non local.
I’d take a job in NL only if it let me relo there for awhile. My bro did that for a few posts, and got a year or two in new country to explore on the weekends with each new posting.
So while remote-first is how I want to work, I’d want resources and ability to relo to a new place every few years. You need to be in place that renews you mentally when you’re not working.
Especially in I-T, if you can’t go somewhere new and enjoy new sounds, sights, smells and customs, and you’re stuck in a sad cube jungle with no excitement at the end of the week, you may as well report to the Soylent green plant.
Time to refit the cruise ship for live-aboard remote global work for me and like 6000 of my friends. Starlink works on the cruise runs, right?
A lot of IT companies in NL hire foreigners. There’s just too little local offer. They throw with work visas as a result, because they’ve never heard about remote-first work being possible after covid. They can’t modernize their work culture because of stupid old fashioned managers and as a result NL has one of the worst housing crisis in Europe. And pay ain’t that good either in a lot of cases, taking into account how much you lose on rent.
the problem is at least on the U.S end, San Jose is part of the Silicon Valley. Talent is not the problem, its the people who ultimately choose to hire is going out of its way to hire talent that seemed non local.
See this is the sad part.
I’d take a job in NL only if it let me relo there for awhile. My bro did that for a few posts, and got a year or two in new country to explore on the weekends with each new posting.
So while remote-first is how I want to work, I’d want resources and ability to relo to a new place every few years. You need to be in place that renews you mentally when you’re not working.
Especially in I-T, if you can’t go somewhere new and enjoy new sounds, sights, smells and customs, and you’re stuck in a sad cube jungle with no excitement at the end of the week, you may as well report to the Soylent green plant.
Time to refit the cruise ship for live-aboard remote global work for me and like 6000 of my friends. Starlink works on the cruise runs, right?