i think it all goes deeper in overall culture/attitude there.
i was in Melbourne in 2012.. with idea to relocate wholesale, 2nd time. Worked 2 months at some "startup", that fired me when i finished the task given.. Seems it was cheaper to hire "permanent" then fire, rather than take someone on 2 months contract. So that's one red light on the dashboard.. There were other redlights from overall "society", feeling something-is-wrong but i did ignore them for quite a while - people have become evil, etc..
Then i started going around places and mailing my cv here or there (with 22y of experience making software, by that time),.. ibm, ernst&young, you-name-it.. to no avail, and more red-lights flashed on me.. And one day visited some kind of meetup, organised/held in some wellknown company. Seemingly it was kind-of "hiring" event or so, we grouped in teams of 3-4-5 people, with half from company, and other half outsiders.. and went solving some problems of theirs. Or that was the "label". Any solution that any of outsiders suggested, was shot down, with somewhat vague reasons, that at the end started to sound like "if we solve this there'll be no job tomorrow". And Smile :) Lots of smiles. Empty ones.
That was one of the Last red lights on my dashboard. Whether it was a financial balloon pressing everyone so they only smiled and did nothing, in order to pay the mortgage, or something else, i don't know. Next day i watched Sacrifice/1986/Offret by Tarkovsky, and.. bought a ticket out. Discontinued my oz dream. For good.
quoting meself, from 2007-8:
"with time, places change people. Other way happens noticeably only while coming in - or switching on."
i think it all goes deeper in overall culture/attitude there.
i was in Melbourne in 2012.. with idea to relocate wholesale, 2nd time. Worked 2 months at some "startup", that fired me when i finished the task given.. Seems it was cheaper to hire "permanent" then fire, rather than take someone on 2 months contract. So that's one red light on the dashboard.. There were other redlights from overall "society", feeling something-is-wrong but i did ignore them for quite a while - people have become evil, etc..
Then i started going around places and mailing my cv here or there (with 22y of experience making software, by that time),.. ibm, ernst&young, you-name-it.. to no avail, and more red-lights flashed on me.. And one day visited some kind of meetup, organised/held in some wellknown company. Seemingly it was kind-of "hiring" event or so, we grouped in teams of 3-4-5 people, with half from company, and other half outsiders.. and went solving some problems of theirs. Or that was the "label". Any solution that any of outsiders suggested, was shot down, with somewhat vague reasons, that at the end started to sound like "if we solve this there'll be no job tomorrow". And Smile :) Lots of smiles. Empty ones.
That was one of the Last red lights on my dashboard. Whether it was a financial balloon pressing everyone so they only smiled and did nothing, in order to pay the mortgage, or something else, i don't know. Next day i watched Sacrifice/1986/Offret by Tarkovsky, and.. bought a ticket out. Discontinued my oz dream. For good.
quoting meself, from 2007-8: "with time, places change people. Other way happens noticeably only while coming in - or switching on."
have fun