Warning: Certain tech jobs and other fields, can enable options to take a couple of years and work in some pretty cool places. If you have any such romantic th

Warning: Certain tech jobs and other fields, can enable options to take a couple of years and work in some pretty cool places. If you have any such romantic thoughts entering your head after reading those numbers, please just throw them out the window if you tend toward jobs with crunch modes, big ambitious goals, etc, especially ones without a lot of personal interaction (like coding in a cube for 12hrs/day). These factors can drastically reduce your efficiency in learning the language. I did an expat tour for a few years and it was a great experience, but at the time didn’t have the foresight to think through this part and it was quite frustrating.