http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6947910.stm
Quiet and clean streets, 4x4 cars and high-rise buildings form the first impressions of an IT consultant who comes to the UK from India. It's not like in Dickens, he tells his brother in a series of e-mails that chart his progress in making a new life with his family.
Vish Madughiri moved to the UK from Bangalore in 2003. He arrived with his son Akshay in Birmingham, where his wife Leela had settled some months earlier.
A series of e-mails to his brother over a number of years reveals how getting a job was not as easy as he thought, and he feels the pull of his homeland as it undergoes an economic boom.
So how did he get a work permit and if he has lost his job, shouldn't he be going home? Or can anyone come here, sign on and look for work?
Just wondered like.
Quiet and clean streets, 4x4 cars and high-rise buildings form the first impressions of an IT consultant who comes to the UK from India. It's not like in Dickens, he tells his brother in a series of e-mails that chart his progress in making a new life with his family.
Vish Madughiri moved to the UK from Bangalore in 2003. He arrived with his son Akshay in Birmingham, where his wife Leela had settled some months earlier.
A series of e-mails to his brother over a number of years reveals how getting a job was not as easy as he thought, and he feels the pull of his homeland as it undergoes an economic boom.
Today hasn't been a great day. I've spent ages trying to find the best place to help me find a job. When I first arrived I followed the same plan I would have done back in Bangalore. I went to find a headhunter. Unfortunately, I had no idea where the headhunters for the computer industry were, especially in a place as quiet as Solihull.
Anyway, after weeks of trawling around various job centres, I eventually found out that they aren't where I should be looking for an executive job. Sometimes it's so frustrating: if you come here on your own, no-one tells you anything! It's like you're just expected to know where to turn.
Anyway, after weeks of trawling around various job centres, I eventually found out that they aren't where I should be looking for an executive job. Sometimes it's so frustrating: if you come here on your own, no-one tells you anything! It's like you're just expected to know where to turn.
So how did he get a work permit and if he has lost his job, shouldn't he be going home? Or can anyone come here, sign on and look for work?
Just wondered like.
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