Definite job change
I’ve resigned from Microsoft. My last day is September 28th. Assuming the work permit gets approved, I’ll start at Codehouse on October 1st.
If getting a new work permit turns out to be as easy as it appears to be, I will definitely consider myself to be more flexibly employed, and not be willing to suffer for long periods of time in a bad situation.
It’s not that I’ve been tortured or anything. Much of my time as MS was fine. But you get in with a company like Microsoft, and there’s a sense security that sets in — you know logically that you could work elsewhere, but you start to doubt that intuitively.
But then you add the foreigner factor: Now you’re working in a foreign country, but the company has paid for your move, and gotten you a work permit, and provides and English-speaking workplace… Now that sense of being unable to leave is much stronger.
But, I stayed the year that I had to in order to not owe for the move. And I’m applying for my own work permit, without the help of corporate lawyers (who in retrospect seem like overkill.) And it’s a Danish company, but they can all speak English, and I’m learning Danish, so there’s really no big problem.