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emphaseyon Ask HN: What would you do career wise if you were from a small country?

> It definitely wasn't comfortable though - you leave all your friends and family behind and need to make new friends and family.

I can imagine, this is something that scares me. How was it for you? How long did it take for you to get yourself situated in the US?

emphaseyon Ask HN: What would you do career wise if you were from a small country?

Serbia. I do have a side project but burnout is hitting me hard currently.

I would really like to hear about your reasoning as to why you would stay.

emphaseyon Ask HN: What would you do career wise if you were from a small country?

Tbh I would be happy with anything as long as I get a little space to be creative, solve challenging problems, have the opportunity to learn new things, have good engineering practices, etc..

I do not expect it but if I get to work on problems even a hundredth of the magnitude of curing cancer - that is a huge plus too.

The kind of work that kills me inside is CRUD apps that need to be done in two months, no time for tests, no time for good engineering practices, etc... Which honestly is a lot of the work available over here.

I lead a small team, and I've managed to get the higher ups in my current company to introduce some good practices and build something sustainable and not just a tech debt ridden monster of spaghetti code.

But it's an uphill battle, and I would love to work in an environment where things like that are not uphill battles, or at least that the hill is less steep.