Austria

    The article will primarily be of interest to those who currently want to go live and work abroad, or rather, to Europe, but he lacks the courage and determination. There are already a lot of tips and examples on the district, so I want to describe how I managed to achieve this goal with my real example, in order to dispel doubts that it is so difficult that you don’t even have to take it. About why I chose Austria, how I achieved my goal and whether I am satisfied, you will learn from my story.

    In fact, it all started with an interest in learning some new foreign language. 4 course, I decided to enroll in a language school. Without thinking too much, on the advice of friends, as they say, I decided to study German. I enrolled in the courses "basics of the German language" and rushed. At the end of the courses, I knew only the very minimum of the language and had no communication experience, except in the classroom with the teacher. Well, okay, I got a certificate (by the way, having no weight anywhere) and scored. Study, diploma.

    After university, I moved to St. Petersburg. It was a dream for me. To live in Petersburg. Together with friends who already live there, I began to trade in freelance programming and all kinds of multimedia. Filming, processing, special effects and so on. In six months, I’m already terribly tired of all this, getting involved and surviving. I realized that we need to go further. There was an option to either find work in St. Petersburg, or to set the bar even higher. I chose the second.

    How to find a job abroad?

    Continuing my freelance activities, in secret from everyone, at night, sacrificing sleep, I was looking for employers abroad. Thanks to the language course, the job search vector was directed towards German-speaking countries. Using search engines and German, I found a lot of sites with vacancies. On the sites I was looking not only for work on programming, but also work on video shooting and video processing, on sound, and even on 3d graphics, because I had basic knowledge of 3d max, obtained again during freelance work, and so, it was always interesting for me to render all sorts of texts and simple objects.

    Almost every night I spent an hour or two finding and sending from one to a maximum of five letters to different employers. I even made up my simple system of accounting for addresses and companies, where I already sent, where I answered, etc. Used a simple email. nameplate for this. They answered a little from where. I adjusted my approach along the way. Changed the text of the appeal to them. Vobschem learned from mistakes. And after three months of such search work, I finally found a company that answered me by mail that the vacancy is relevant and that foreigners are quite acceptable for this position.

    Found a company. What's next?

    And then, a nut. (c) Yeralash And then the correspondence begins. We immediately started talking on Skype. Written of course. The language of communication was English. On the same day I was offered to work remotely, as a trial period. And a monthly salary was offered in the amount of 1000 euros. I can’t describe my emotions. Joy, pride and other feelings of victory overcame me at that moment. I ran around the apartment for joy, where I lived in a commune with four other IT people, telling everyone about this news. From that day, I quickly started my freelance work, and began to move away from the common cause. My colleagues understood me, and this did not create any problems. I switched to self-contained content.

    I had to create a foreign currency account in a savings bank to transfer salaries there. There were some troubles and anger towards my company, which often moved with a salary, but in the end everything was always decided by a happy end.

    What kind of work was remote?

    I worked in the simplest and most popular position in the IT world. Programmer php + mysql. Layout design, pulled on joomla, in the best case, wrote components for non-standard needs. A manager worked with me in a pair, with whom I was actually the first and began to communicate then. The guy was German, I’m the same age. We quickly became friends and found a common language. Sometimes outside working hours, they called up on Skype to chat. Thanks to him, my conversational (and his, too) English has risen to an unrecognizable level. Sometimes I asked him to speak German. With little understanding, I tried to parse speech into words and memorize something, with its help.

    Such work lasted about half a year. One day I told my manager friend that I actually want to move to Europe if he could ask the authorities how they look at it. I have recommended myself very positively during this time, doing my work qualitatively. And even once he rescued the company, working 7 days a week on one "dying" project. All this gave me serious karma. The authorities took my desire to move very positively.

    Visa.

    The company had 2 jur. persons in Germany and Austria. One subsidiary, the other main. They asked me if I was against working in Austria and not in Germany? Due to the fact that all programmers and brains are here. I was in some pleasant shock, as the offer slightly confused me. I did not know anything about Austria at that time. I climbed into wikipedia and the map. When I saw what the city looked like, where I actually could go, what mountains and so on, I told myself that it was even cooler than I had planned. To hell with Germany! Here is my new dream! I told my colleagues that definitely yes!

    A work visa requires a number of documents. Certified by a notary photocopy. The set is standard (passport, birth certificate, diploma ...). Having collected everything I needed, I sent the express delivery all to the company. Then they began the process on their part. After submitting all the documents there, we had to wait for the result for about 3 months. All this time, we just continued to work as before.

    One day I received an email. letter from the Austrian Embassy in Moscow. The letter was about this content: Congratulations, the Austrian state has given a positive response to the issue of a category D work visa for a period of 18 months. Come to this address in Moscow for a visa.

    This was the second time I could not describe my emotions. There was nothing more long-awaited and desired in my life. In fact, this letter meant the end of my whole plan, which arose in my head, having lived for six months in St. Petersburg. From the inception of the idea to the final, it took about a year only.

    On the day I received this news, I could no longer work, I informed all my colleagues that I was going offline and flying to you on the wings of love within a week.

    I am in Austria.

    My path was hard, I traveled by train, St. Petersburg - Moscow - Vienna. It seemed a terribly long train to me. In fact 3 days in total. I didn’t want to fly by plane. Scary and the desire to go and enjoy the trip was stronger. By train you pass different countries. From the capital of Austria, I still traveled by train to the final city. The city is located in the very south and borders with Italy. And here I am. I am met by a female colleague who did all the visa documents. Joy overwhelms me. Captions.

    The end.

    PS

    Answering the last unresolved question of whether I am satisfied, I will answer briefly: yes !, hell. I have lived abroad for a year and a half. And already used to everything. The local language is almost like a mother tongue. I really like the Austrian dialects of the German language, therefore I am teaching them, and not German itself.

    Achieve your goals. Nothing is impossible.

    More interesting details, facts, prices and similar information about living and working in Austria in pictures, and not only - I hope coming soon. I want to believe that my algorithm for achieving the goal will benefit someone.

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