ticklish question

[emmala]

Here's one for you. I'm an American citizen (no commonwealth or eu citizenship in addition) and I am about to start applying for jobs in the UK (yes I've lived there before, and I'm also applying for jobs in the US and Canada, this is not some weird anglophile post, just looking for a job anywhere I would be willing to live

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[dirt_is_luck]

I applied for many jobs (for museum/heritage positions) from abroad before I moved here a year ago. I always mentioned in the cover letter that I hold an ancestry visa and when it is valid until.

I didn't think it was a good idea to submit my CV without any proof that I could work in the country.

Also, every single job I applied for online (about 80% of the dozens of jobs I applied for were through online applications) had a series of questions about your eligibility to work in the UK. Ie, do you need a work permit to take up employment in the UK? If so, do you have one or have applied for one? If you have when, when does it expire? What are the restrictions on your permit? And many required my visa or passport number. Also, you needed a NI number to complete most applications.

I have a feeling that most places will just discard anyone not already holding a visa.

Things are horrible right now for museum-type jobs. Thankfully I have a great job now, but I'm always looking for something else and have not applied for a job in almost seven months! A year ago I was applying for several a week. There is just nothing out there...

[emmala]

Things are horrible everywhere for museum folks. In a twisted way it's a statement about how bad it is that I'm even bothering to apply to places in the UK when I know it's as bad, if not worse, over there. But I figure my only shot is to apply to every job I might have a prayer for that comes up around the English speaking Atlantic and hope that eventually the statistics will play out and I'll find one somewhere. Hell I would be applying for jobs in Australia and New Zealand too if it wasn't for an unwillingness to be an entire day off from my family and sweetie. (you have to draw the line somewhere after all!) Out of curiosity what kind of museumy work do you do?

[purplekat99]

Depending on your timezone, the difference from Australia and especially NZ, is super close to the US. When I lived in NZ, for half the year, I was only 3 hours behind (but a day ahead) my family in California, which is just as "bad" as being in NYC, but the other direction. The "worst" I had it was 7 hours when I was in Australia, which is still better then 9hrs when I am on the continent. For me, 9 was like the worst (8 in the UK and 10 in Israel was do-able, for some reason).

Most people think that NZ and Australia are like super far, when really, they aren't. It just depends what map you look at:-). Plus, it's wicked easy for Americans to work in both places (compared to Canada, UK and Europe).

[emmala]

well i live in new york as does all my family and my sweetie so they would be very far. at the moment when we call my step family in SA it's 13 hours so not too close. And it's the whole super super expensive flight thing too and with all due respect I frankly don't want to live there.