so I want to continue to be paid in USD even if it’s an “average” salary by US standards.
LOL, don’t we all?
Anyone else have experience with this or guidance?
I requested an internal transfer to a Canadian office. It came with a forty percent pay cut that I’m not complaining about.
Why pay when you can get paid?
Because there are non-financial considerations? I mean, obviously it’s best to have someone else pay. In my last case, I requested an internal transfer to another country country. I wasn’t really in the position to demand relocation expenses.
I’ve done several international moves, but all that were paid for by an employer – IMHO the only way to go
Meh, after six of them (three after grad school) I don’t think it’s that important to have the actual move paid.
However, what use are my 5 weeks of vacation if I spend half of them going back home?
Well, 10 days of vacation in the US would solve that dilemma :(
Do you have French citizenship? Or would a return to the US be kind of permanent? Is your partner American?
Keep in mind that your friends and family have all aged a few years as well so if you’re missing your early college vibes, you’re not going to find them again.
Where would you go in the US? What are your realistic salary expectations? Before you left, where you adulting already or still on your parent’s insurance and stuff like that?
What exactly did you expect to get out of your IEC experience? Generally people on working holiday visas make just enough to live in the some interesting place for a while. Like, living in a van in Whistler would fucking suck… But you do it for a season to party and ski because you’re 23 and not trying to save for retirement yet.
What field are you in? Which city? Why did you choose that city? How much money do you have?
Do you live in a country where you get like eight weeks of holiday? That’d be a relatively obvious lie.
Just tell them that you’re not coming home this winter.