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I’ve been living in Europe for 7 years and working remotely for US companies. Here is what I do (please tell me about better ideas!): 1. Apply to US remote job
by piinecone 4y ago
I’ve been living in Europe for 7 years and working remotely for US companies. Here is what I do (please tell me about better ideas!):
1. Apply to US remote jobs on the east coast and mention working from Europe. I’ve had a lot of luck overlapping for half a day. Not so great in a leadership position though.
2. Contact colleagues you like working with at US companies and see if they’re open to working with you. Someone vouching for you on the inside helps a lot.
3. Specialize in something valuable, pitch contract work, and try to convert that to full-time (or part-time or whatever).
Plug: my friend and I made a thing to address this problem because we have it too:
https://polyfill.work https://polyfill.work
You say how much you want to make, where you work from, etc., and it emails you when a company wants to hire someone like you. If you try it please let me know what you think.
- mgraupner 4y agoJust some input for you: Confirmation mail went straight to the spam folder in Google Mail. After confirmation send a mail with link to profile and some welcome message, how am I suppose to find my profile again? Let me edit my profile afterwards.
- tluyben2 4y agoAlso good to say; many singles or child free couples can change their timezone to match their client. I changed from US to SG and back a few times over the past 10 years while living in the EU. It was actually quite nice; asia was better because finishing your day when the rest of your friends wake up is nicer than saying you cannot really do anything after 4 pm but you get used to it anyway.