As you have probably noticed lately I did not have so much time to write on the blog, which is not a news.
Actually these last days I have been busy more than usual, because I was preparing for a great change in my life.
Until some month ago I was still a simple student willing to graduate soon, and I was living with my girlfriend in L’Aquila, not far from my family. Today instead I am a full time worker and I live in Bergen, Norway, more than 3000km far from my loved ones.
Why this radical change? After getting my Master Degree I started to receive several job proposals, like to apply for a PhD position at my university (without guarantee of receiving a scholarship), or alternatively to move to Rome or Milan and work in one of the many IT companies. Considering the working conditions and the salary, none of the offerings I received was prizing my little but intense academical and working career, but this of course is my point of view. Some friends and colleagues continue to say that this is normal, that they had the same treatment, that the labor market is like this for everyone, especially software developers… but I had no wish to accept such conditions.
I have also to say that since a long time I am stressed by all the social-political problems that are ruining Italy, but I do not want to talk more about considering that I already suffered them too much.
I received from Norway a unique job proposal, that even if it is normalized to the cost of life is much better than the others I received from Italy. A the end I made my choice, not completely conscious about the future I decided that I would come back in the city that already hosted me for one year.
How long will I stay here? Who knows, I would like to travel the world so it is not sure that Norway will be the place where I will settle, but at the moment I stay and I take the best it is offered to me.
Obviously I will miss something: girlfriend, family, friends, weather, sun, sea, cuisine, motorcycle…
By the way, I think I made the right choice, here I have a lot to gain and a little to loose.
Goodbye Italy, you lost a brain and gained a tourist.













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