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I feel like if you sacrifice enough in wages you can always have a fascinating job. And moving to a developing country can leave you with a roughly equivalent s
by Jeff_Brown 5y ago
I feel like if you sacrifice enough in wages you can always have a fascinating job. And moving to a developing country can leave you with a roughly equivalent salary after adjusting for purchasing powe parity. I don't have hard data but that's what I've been doing for the last four years.
- bjornsing 5y agoInteresting. So you do freelance/consulting work and are really picky about the projects you take on, or what?
- Jeff_Brown 5y agoNo, I'm CTO at a small NGO in Bogotá that models the effects of government policy. Which I got because a friend started the NGO. So I guess I'm not evidence that such opportunities are rife. But they do seem to be. Native English speakers are quite valuable in their own right here. And there's a strong big-fish-small-pond effect if you're an expert in something. Research tends to be written in English, as does documentation.
- dkn775 5y agoWork for gov particularly police or some kind of job where you have to deal w social stuff. City gov is the best for this as you get a lot of flexibility