There are many good reasons to go abroad. However, there are also a couple of unpleasant side-effects of mobility nobody dares to talk about!
1. You’ll have to build a new life from scratch.
Every time you go to another country you have to start from scratch to build your life – this is a fact that is best to simply accept! You’ll have to learn all the tips and tricks to make life easier and to save money, you’ll also have to learn where to find information and help, the health system will be different and – for sure – the police will have a different attitude (and as you’re a foreigner anyway – you must be up to no good!! J). You’ll have to learn where the bakery and the supermarket are and where you can buy this little brownish thing you cannot find in your dictionary which is necessary to switch on the heater.
The best strategy is to find other foreigners – ideally from your own country and culture – who can help you to survive the first 6 weeks.
2. Administration works completely different in another country
Intuitively, most people know more or less how to behave in an administrative context because they have been trained their whole life to handle administration. Unfortunately, many rules you have learned do not apply in a different bureaucratic system. In addition, administrative language is normally created by robots to be read by machines, thus, your dictionary will not help you.
You should NEVER try to figure out the administration of a foreign country. You are naturally programmed to fail. Find people in the administration of your new institution and let them help you – quite often the secretaries of your institution are wizards in handling administration; they know whom to contact and they understand bureaucratic procedures better than anybody else. Buying a lot of chocolate may help.
Find out about the 7 other unpleasant side-effects of mobility nobody dares to talk about in smartsciencecareer.com: Read more!
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References
http://www.smartsciencecareer.com/reasons-not-to-go-abroad/
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