Reply to: UK Job market

[pmeswani]

Having been so fortunate as to have lived for a year in Trastevere Rome , still I yearn for Basingstoke.

I miss living in Basingstoke. The best 1 and a bit of my life. That is where I first started to play face to face Poker.

[AlfredJPruffock]

Having been so fortunate as to have lived for a year in Trastevere Rome , still I yearn for Basingstoke.

[Belle]

Very funny...seen as I started this post and I'm living in Italy as well at the moment. But you still need money to sit in a run down cottage and drink wine and the language, or lack of, is quite an important point. Anyway, after all the wonderful, positive comments, I'm still coming (sorry!) but have decided to push hubby out to work first.

[TykeMerc]

Visit Britain. Visit a Little Chef, go to Brighton on a rainy day. Listen to a speech by Gordon Broon. Look at the prices of having a half decent meal. Travel by train, to get an impression of the idiotic prices and astonishing inefficiency. Then go back to Rome and get on the fast, comfortable and reasonably priced eurocity train from Rome to Perugia, and walk up to the town center. Book yourself a room at the rather luxurious Brufani Palace (which costs less than many train tickets in the UK), or perhaps in one of those B&Bs that British expats have opened. Sit on the terrace in the evening with a glass of Orvieto gazing at the sun setting over the Umbrian countryside, then stroll down to the La Rosetta restaurant for some guinea fowl braised in Marsala, washed down with a Rosso di Montefalco. At the end of the evening, ask yourself again; Italy or Britain.

Valid points, having spent some time in Italy, apart from the graffiti in Italy which is apalling the rest is absolutely true. I'm a lousy linguist and find Italian managable.

The quality of life in the Uk is poor unless you have a lot of money and the public services including transport are worse. The weather is best described as YUCK here too.

I'm considering bailing from the Uk as soon as my sons are a little older.

[Mich the Tester]

I have been thinking all this year to move in London and to find a job there.. I'm Romanian by nationality, working as a developer (java/j2ee) in Rome/Italy from about 5 years. I have finally planed to go in December like you.. I have noticed my boss, bought tickets and booked for a hostel..
And now? What should I do? Change my mind and not come anymore?
Because otherwise all cosider me crazy...

What have you decided at the end? :-)

There are thousands of British, Dutch, Irish and German people going off to live in Italy every year, who are quite happy to live in run-down cottages and scrape a living from renting out two rooms and a site for a tent to tourists, undaunted by Italian bureaucracy, the difficulty of learning the language or the risk of never finding a good job again, simply to enjoy spending their weekends sitting in the almost guaranteed sunshine drinking local wine and whatever fresh vegetables and fruit their garden can produce. And there you are, with a decent sounding job in Italy, jacking it in to come to Northern Europe in winter.

Let me persuade you to think again.

Visit Britain. Visit a Little Chef, go to Brighton on a rainy day. Listen to a speech by Gordon Broon. Look at the prices of having a half decent meal. Travel by train, to get an impression of the idiotic prices and astonishing inefficiency. Then go back to Rome and get on the fast, comfortable and reasonably priced eurocity train from Rome to Perugia, and walk up to the town center. Book yourself a room at the rather luxurious Brufani Palace (which costs less than many train tickets in the UK), or perhaps in one of those B&Bs that British expats have opened. Sit on the terrace in the evening with a glass of Orvieto gazing at the sun setting over the Umbrian countryside, then stroll down to the La Rosetta restaurant for some guinea fowl braised in Marsala, washed down with a Rosso di Montefalco. At the end of the evening, ask yourself again; Italy or Britain.

[TheVoice]

Should I stay where I am?

Hell Yess!

There's fsck all for those of us who do live here anyway & it's a tulipe country to be in too.

Stay where y'are!

[ratewhore]

...I'm Romanian by nationality, working as a developer (java/j2ee) in Rome/Italy from about 5 years.

hmm, Italy or England?

[HairyArsedBloke]

So that's your plan B

Big demand for it. Almost all of the cabinet indulge in such activity.

[irina406]

The same concern..

OK, so I think I'm crazy but I am arriving in the UK in December hoping to find work - Test Manager. Should I stay where I am? What is the state of the market for Test Managers?

I have been thinking all this year to move in London and to find a job there.. I'm Romanian by nationality, working as a developer (java/j2ee) in Rome/Italy from about 5 years. I have finally planed to go in December like you.. I have noticed my boss, bought tickets and booked for a hostel..
And now? What should I do? Change my mind and not come anymore?
Because otherwise all cosider me crazy...

What have you decided at the end? :-)

[DiscoStu]

All this negativity, when just 2 posts away is somebody crying out for a test manager:

http://forums.contractoruk.com/busin...-bradford.html

THat'll be 20% please

tl

Would you want a gig working with Wilmslow?

[SueEllen]

All this negativity, when just 2 posts away is somebody crying out for a test manager:

http://forums.contractoruk.com/busin...-bradford.html

THat'll be 20% please

tl

Shush. You are not suppose to increase the candidate pool with people from aboard, who will moan less.

[thunderlizard]

All this negativity, when just 2 posts away is somebody crying out for a test manager:

http://forums.contractoruk.com/busin...-bradford.html

THat'll be 20% please

tl

[SueEllen]

If you do come make sure you have a load of cash to live on until things pick up.

Yeah like enough for about a year.

[SillyMilly]

If you've got a job already and you give it up to come to the UK, with the market being in the state it is - you're right, you're crazy.

If you do come make sure you have a load of cash to live on until things pick up.

[Belle]

Sorry, nothing personal but there arent enough jobs for UK nationals. Better stay away imo!

Am a UK national coming back to work. But seems from the comments that a change in profession (to definitely a more interesting one??) would be required!