I don't normally post here or anywhere really, but I'm genuinely at a loss.
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I don't normally post here or anywhere really, but I'm genuinely at a loss. I'm a systems administrator and a devops engineer looking for work somewhere that isn't where I live right now. Main motivation is looking for a safer space as a trans person and some other personal reasons. Existing where I am now only makes me spiral more and more into bad mental health space.
While I am an EU citizen technically, I feel like every attempt I make at looking for work hits a wall almost immediately due to language requirements. And while I'm not opposed to actually learning a new language, it would be nice to find somewhere to put a foot in the door and work on my language skills after I'm a tiny bit confident it's a place that fits me.
Maybe I'm just naive and this isn't generally something that exists, but I feel like I hear of people working for english speaking companies often enough so surely it's a thing. But if so, where does one actually find such places?
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I don't normally post here or anywhere really, but I'm genuinely at a loss. I'm a systems administrator and a devops engineer looking for work somewhere that isn't where I live right now. Main motivation is looking for a safer space as a trans person and some other personal reasons. Existing where I am now only makes me spiral more and more into bad mental health space.
While I am an EU citizen technically, I feel like every attempt I make at looking for work hits a wall almost immediately due to language requirements. And while I'm not opposed to actually learning a new language, it would be nice to find somewhere to put a foot in the door and work on my language skills after I'm a tiny bit confident it's a place that fits me.
Maybe I'm just naive and this isn't generally something that exists, but I feel like I hear of people working for english speaking companies often enough so surely it's a thing. But if so, where does one actually find such places?
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I don't normally post here or anywhere really, but I'm genuinely at a loss. I'm a systems administrator and a devops engineer looking for work somewhere that isn't where I live right now. Main motivation is looking for a safer space as a trans person and some other personal reasons. Existing where I am now only makes me spiral more and more into bad mental health space.
While I am an EU citizen technically, I feel like every attempt I make at looking for work hits a wall almost immediately due to language requirements. And while I'm not opposed to actually learning a new language, it would be nice to find somewhere to put a foot in the door and work on my language skills after I'm a tiny bit confident it's a place that fits me.
Maybe I'm just naive and this isn't generally something that exists, but I feel like I hear of people working for english speaking companies often enough so surely it's a thing. But if so, where does one actually find such places?
@espyeen Can only reply with my own personal experiences, standard disclaimer, no idea how transferable these are, I moved here ten years ago, etc etc
I'm an English speaker and moved to Helsinki, and have had steady work in programming the whole time. So far what's worked is looking for international companies, or bigger companies. Anything that has an office in multiple countries is probably going to either use English as their official business language, or be fine working with people who do.
...also, trying to get an interview, let alone a position, while not being physically present in the country sucks *ass*, and is gonna just take a lot of perseverance. It took me something like six months of sending job apps constantly, and that was when the market was good. Stick with it.
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I don't normally post here or anywhere really, but I'm genuinely at a loss. I'm a systems administrator and a devops engineer looking for work somewhere that isn't where I live right now. Main motivation is looking for a safer space as a trans person and some other personal reasons. Existing where I am now only makes me spiral more and more into bad mental health space.
While I am an EU citizen technically, I feel like every attempt I make at looking for work hits a wall almost immediately due to language requirements. And while I'm not opposed to actually learning a new language, it would be nice to find somewhere to put a foot in the door and work on my language skills after I'm a tiny bit confident it's a place that fits me.
Maybe I'm just naive and this isn't generally something that exists, but I feel like I hear of people working for english speaking companies often enough so surely it's a thing. But if so, where does one actually find such places?
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