Finally, hands have reached the continuation of the article " Stories about my work in the Netherlands " - namely, it's time to tell about the details of the move and share practical advice with future tractor drivers. I apologize to everyone who was waiting for this sequel much earlier. I will not dwell on the reasons for the delay, but believe me, these were very stressful months for me, and I could hardly have taken on this article in the period that I announced earlier. By the way, my dear questioners in PM! You are, in fact, the full co-authors of this article, because some of your clever and sometimes unexpected questions would not have crossed my mind, while others made my task much easier. Instead of thinking about the outline of the article, the submission, and so on, take the question-answer format, and it's in the bag. Dearnightstalker, ATmegAdriVeR, Flem_1, dmtrr, ChingizKhalafov, Carduelis, artem2511, gri_mih, Ommonick, these are your questions, I am very grateful to you. Hopefully from all readers too.
Well, I'll start with a short story about how I came to life in the Netherlands.
Well, I really want to go to Europe
In 2014, I worked for a large international company in Moscow, and I had a desire to leave the Russian Federation for Europe or the States. Just at that moment, the boss announced that our department was most likely next in line to move to London. I was delighted, but after a couple of months we were told that the move was postponed for an unknown period. Well. And I already started watching the John Oliver show with Singleton whiskey and the constant high tea! In short, I began to look myself for where to get a job. I sent out a resume to Linked-In to all ends of the Earth, where, in principle, there was an opportunity to stick around. New Zealand, Canada, USA, UK, Ireland, Germany, Spain, Italy, and of course Holland. I quickly found that companies from Germany and the Netherlands were the most responsive. Yes, the familiar name "Holland" is in the past,the country is officially called the Netherlands, although the word "Holland" continues to live - these are the two richest provinces of the country: North and South Holland.
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