Working abroad, chaos ahead
Thursday, March 12th, 2009While most things at work seems to work out - after of course the "new job" hurry the first months, everything else seems to get out of control every once in a while.
- I haven't heard from my application at the Immigration Office since the beginning of december.
- My attempt to get my cat from Germany to be able to live with her turned out finde despite a lot of organizational trouble. But she died one week later, since she had a chronical disease. Her breakdown is most likely not due to the traveling, it could have happened anytime - and just as well a few years later. So I could not anticipate it, but it was quite stressful nevertheless.
- I have been a regular visitor at the taxes office in the city. Complications there are due to Immigration Office delay.
- My room in Germany, that somebody rents from me because I took off there on short notice, has suffered from a hole in the plumbing from bathroom right beside it, so the person living there now had several problems.
Not to mention all the difficulties keeping contact to my dearest friends and my family. I guess if you leave your nice, cozy perception of "home" and decide to become a nomad (I am pretty sure I should not call myself that, but in need of a better term), you have to let go of the thought that you can control your life. While this isn't true, anyway, it is certainly not the case if you are making a "big move".