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What is Your Dream?
Stating your own short-term and long-term goals is very important because when we don’t know our live purpose, we won’t do enough effort to achieve it. Based on a survey conducted in a university sometime ago, graduates that have specific goals are able to reach better position and salary after they work for 5 years.
The Value of the Expat Community (3)
For all its positive benefits, the expat community can also hinder your ability to integrate. It can provide too much comfort and familiarity, and if you let it, it can almost completely insulate you from local society, thus retarding your ability to integrate with your new colleagues and preventing you from experiencing those things that make living overseas such an adventure.
The Value of the Expat Community (2)
I was surprised at the number of people who, when they found out I was moving to Russia, knew someone living there and were keen to put me in touch. In hindsight, one of the smartest things I did—and I did it as a fluke—was make a list of these Moscow contacts. I figured I’d probably never do anything with it, but I might as well take it along.