I decided to only work at overseas startups so there’s no chance of a “oopsie we retracted WFH”. I’ll be selling my car this year, I already have the electric bike to replace it.
I found my job on Reddit somehow, but there are plenty of overseas jobs on LinkedIn and the other major job exchanges. I work in a customer facing role so I look for jobs that need someone to handle customers in X timezones. For example, my company is based in Berlin but they wanted someone to manage the US customers.
NGL the timezone stuff is HARD at first. I am six hours behind almost all of my coworkers so I sometimes get completely excluded from discussions and meetings. I occasionally have to wake up early for things (4am product launch…) and there isn’t the technical help available after noon my time, so I have had to develop my own troubleshooting and coding skills. And of course it can get lonely when there’s no one else about.
But they fly me out to HQ every year and also offsites in Rome, Spain, and Portugal. So it’s an alright tradeoff.
I decided to only work at overseas startups so there’s no chance of a “oopsie we retracted WFH”. I’ll be selling my car this year, I already have the electric bike to replace it.
Any tips for overseas job hunting and how do timezone hours work?
I found my job on Reddit somehow, but there are plenty of overseas jobs on LinkedIn and the other major job exchanges. I work in a customer facing role so I look for jobs that need someone to handle customers in X timezones. For example, my company is based in Berlin but they wanted someone to manage the US customers.
NGL the timezone stuff is HARD at first. I am six hours behind almost all of my coworkers so I sometimes get completely excluded from discussions and meetings. I occasionally have to wake up early for things (4am product launch…) and there isn’t the technical help available after noon my time, so I have had to develop my own troubleshooting and coding skills. And of course it can get lonely when there’s no one else about.
But they fly me out to HQ every year and also offsites in Rome, Spain, and Portugal. So it’s an alright tradeoff.