Maybe this is too personal, but what the heck!
I have been open before about my life, on this Message Board and so... I thought maybe some of you might be curious about the ongoing saga of Voyager... Or am I too egocentric? Hahahaha!
I have been trying to find a way to relocate to Santo Domingo (only place in DR, that I can consider living in) but it is very, very, very difficult.
The lifestyle I want to have (including travels, being a "Voyager") require a decent income. Having read a lot of threads about cost of living in DR, been speaking to friends in DR and been visiting the country maybe 10 times now, I fully realize that it is NOT a cheap place to live. Just my travelling will require at least 10,000 US Dollars a year.
If I just go there, without having a job and maybe not getting one, the cost of setting up life there and sustain my lifestyle will consume all my savings in less than 4 years. Then what do I do? Live in a shack like that Belgian (was he?) guy that someone mentioned on this board some weeks ago? Poverty holds little appeal to me...
Investing money in a business of my own makes me feel un-comfortable. I have never done anything like that before and I don't think DR is a good place to start. I am the kind of guy who enjoy working in a controlled environment in an established company. To run my own business has never been my ambition.
But to find a job in DR seems like an ever steeper uphill struggle. It is a bit sad and almost ridiculous in a way. I mean, I feel I have such a lot to offer a country like DR. I really feel I could make a good contribution there. But DR is a country that does not seem to realize that it is competing for experienced people in a global community.
I have been searching for jobs globally, including DR. Now there are offers for me from Ireland (Sales Manager for Europe) and Sweden (Purchasing Manager for Scandinavia) and tentatively also from China (Purchasing Manager for huge paper milll project).
Until now, I have received very little feedback from DR companies. The most comprehensive feedback I received was from a company that advised me that I was too qualified!?!?!? Huh? Too qualified??? Maybe I should have sent them only half my CV and they would have given me the job?
I was hoping to find a job as "Commercial Manager" or whatever the right title would be for a DR company to help them expand business into Europe and maybe elsewhere. With my contacts in the Middle East and in South East Asia (especially Australia) I thought I could develop exciting global business exchange for a DR company. But there appears to be little interest in that. Kind of weird, isn't it? I was of the belief that DR would welcome income from international business! No?
Sorry if I have a sour-grapes, bitter and disillusioned tone in this text... But this is a little bit what I feel like...
I guess I was just too romantic and with too rose-coloured illusions? Funny really, me always being the true example of the rational, controlled, analytical and slightly cool Swede, not wearing my heart on my sleeve.
I guess I was swept away by the soft breeze from the Caribbean ocean...
I have been open before about my life, on this Message Board and so... I thought maybe some of you might be curious about the ongoing saga of Voyager... Or am I too egocentric? Hahahaha!
I have been trying to find a way to relocate to Santo Domingo (only place in DR, that I can consider living in) but it is very, very, very difficult.
The lifestyle I want to have (including travels, being a "Voyager") require a decent income. Having read a lot of threads about cost of living in DR, been speaking to friends in DR and been visiting the country maybe 10 times now, I fully realize that it is NOT a cheap place to live. Just my travelling will require at least 10,000 US Dollars a year.
If I just go there, without having a job and maybe not getting one, the cost of setting up life there and sustain my lifestyle will consume all my savings in less than 4 years. Then what do I do? Live in a shack like that Belgian (was he?) guy that someone mentioned on this board some weeks ago? Poverty holds little appeal to me...
Investing money in a business of my own makes me feel un-comfortable. I have never done anything like that before and I don't think DR is a good place to start. I am the kind of guy who enjoy working in a controlled environment in an established company. To run my own business has never been my ambition.
But to find a job in DR seems like an ever steeper uphill struggle. It is a bit sad and almost ridiculous in a way. I mean, I feel I have such a lot to offer a country like DR. I really feel I could make a good contribution there. But DR is a country that does not seem to realize that it is competing for experienced people in a global community.
I have been searching for jobs globally, including DR. Now there are offers for me from Ireland (Sales Manager for Europe) and Sweden (Purchasing Manager for Scandinavia) and tentatively also from China (Purchasing Manager for huge paper milll project).
Until now, I have received very little feedback from DR companies. The most comprehensive feedback I received was from a company that advised me that I was too qualified!?!?!? Huh? Too qualified??? Maybe I should have sent them only half my CV and they would have given me the job?
I was hoping to find a job as "Commercial Manager" or whatever the right title would be for a DR company to help them expand business into Europe and maybe elsewhere. With my contacts in the Middle East and in South East Asia (especially Australia) I thought I could develop exciting global business exchange for a DR company. But there appears to be little interest in that. Kind of weird, isn't it? I was of the belief that DR would welcome income from international business! No?
Sorry if I have a sour-grapes, bitter and disillusioned tone in this text... But this is a little bit what I feel like...
I guess I was just too romantic and with too rose-coloured illusions? Funny really, me always being the true example of the rational, controlled, analytical and slightly cool Swede, not wearing my heart on my sleeve.
I guess I was swept away by the soft breeze from the Caribbean ocean...
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