I lived in Japan for three years non consecutively and every time I was audited.
Everything in that video is utterly enraging, and the fact that I can get angry after having my boss screw me out of recall rights to my job today while I am already being laid off and leaving my hackerspace and dealing with the death of a family member, it’s amazing I can even feel rage right now.
I don’t think of America as a just or good place anymore. This country is a moral and social parasite on decent people with real ideals of Freedom who live around the world.
America is a fucking joke, and doesn’t deserve it’s citizens.
Is anyone here a machinist in a country outside the U.S.?
I know bits and pieces about what the field is like in other countries- I may be looking at leaving the field, but I’m betting it may not be the conservative shithole it is as a field in the rest of the world?
I know I’m sick of no windows- and Swiss machinists get windows.
Quite serious, anyone? PM me- I’d really love to talk with you at length. Especially if you are from watchmaking countries, Japan (I speak Japanese), or New Zealand!
O my poor man, this so shows you have never left the USA any where in the EU is more liberal and free than the USA, you can even own guns in some of Europe, if that is how you judge liberty, but despite the mass brain washing in the usa, the only thing the USA is number 1 for is the amount of people in prison…
I was running a CNC machining company in Poland but I will probably have to close it soon.
In Poland it’s kinda mixed, some machinists I know are conservative, some progressive, generally most people avoid talking about politics in workplace. Some workplaces I know have really friendly environment, but the pay is not great. From what I’ve seen working as a machinist at university or research institute is also nice, laid back job here, but again the pay isn’t great. Maybe you should try Germany? From what I’ve heard the workplace culture there is impressively good and even if the pay would be less than in US, in my opinion it’s worth it.
Go for Spain. Once you’re an EU citizen, 26 other countries are open to you.
Nobody knows how Brexit will play out yet, but it probably won’t be pretty.
That is certainly true and there is a lot of precision manufacturing in Germany, so you would probably have good chances of finding something.
That said, Germany is very big on formal qualifications and certificates. So if you have formal training you’d have to look into having them translated and formally approved. And speaking of translating: while it is expected that people in white collar jobs speak English and they might (depending on the industry) speak English in the workplace, or at least have no problem accomodating an English speaking colleague, the same is very much not true in blue collar jobs. It’s quite possible that even supervisors would not be able to speak English beyond a basic level, and certainly not the technical language of machining.
I don’t want to discourage you, I just think it’s good to be realistic when making such a huge change in one’s life. That said Germany generally has a very good working culture that could best described as “professional”.
Well, I am considering this all myself as I have been living in Germany for over 30 years. Basically ever since I turned 21, but the first couple of years don’t really count since I was in the US Army at the time. And, well, I have never gotten around to doing all of the tax stuff, so that’s like a big sword of Damocles hanging over my head. I shouldn’t really owe anything, I know, and I skated by in the 90’s when no one cared about this stuff. But nowadays, it’s such that I can’t get a loan if I wanted, because no German bank wants to do business with US citizens due to the onerous paperwork overhead.
So, yeah. Being a US citizen brings no advantages whatsoever. The only keeping me from renouncing is the fact that I would not be able to return when I retire.
