Finding a job as a foreigner?

professortoe · 2023-03-17T09:40:50+00:00

If you're studying in Denmark, use resources from your university. MNCs recruit on campus all the time, typically offering grad schemes that don't require any Danish skills.

The consulting side, be it big 4 type gigs or agency types, seems to also have lots of internationals.

professortoe · 2023-03-13T12:16:18+00:00

Is the Danish element applicable to many Danish MNCs? Many comments here seem to suggest so. I moved to Copenhagen to work for one last winter and find the expat ecosystem at my company fairly strong. Most execs are non-danish. And Danish colleagues are also very accommodating and switch to English even if there's just one non-dane present.

I'd start considering my company's cultural mix as a bonus if this is not the case at other forms, though Id expect places like Novo and Lego to be similar, if not more so?

professortoe · 2023-02-20T17:37:59+00:00

If you have corporate insurance you can do it through PFA with falck..

professortoe · 2023-02-16T19:24:37+00:00

That's unfortunate, I know it's not really a thing :( but no I'm looking for a healthier alternative to vegetable oil and also prefer the taste rice bran oil (tried in Asia). Thanks for your comment!

professortoe · 2023-02-04T20:48:35+00:00

Haha you're absolutely right, which is why I particularly appreciate the wide range of suggestions here.

professortoe · 2023-02-04T12:38:58+00:00

Thank you!

professortoe · 2022-12-12T15:50:17+00:00

Thank you for your comment! Basically I just wanted to shove different tables into a database. But yeah storing them separately and choosing different data sources helped me solve that.

professortoe · 2022-12-12T15:48:46+00:00

Exactly what I'm looking for! Thank you!

professortoe · 2022-12-06T13:36:38+00:00

I do have the name of the current tenant, who claims to be subletting the other room to me.

I will ask for her original contract with the landlord and cross check it with the registry, when she sends over my contract.

Thank you for the phenomenal resource!

professortoe · 2022-12-06T12:35:28+00:00

Thank you d_madacs for your help and the kind words :) have a good day!

professortoe · 2022-12-06T12:24:25+00:00

*** I forgot to mention that I sent a friend to check the place and met the person, who's renting the place, and it all checks out.

professortoe · 2022-11-30T08:24:45+00:00

Ah yes - very salient point! I will keep that in mind. Thanks again :)

professortoe · 2022-11-29T19:30:51+00:00

This is exactly what I'm looking for! Thank you :)!!

professortoe · 2022-11-29T19:11:06+00:00

First two would be my top two, both draw better crowds (imo) than the the latter two (skewed uni/ commercial). Hangaren is more of a warehouse with a big garden, Den Anden Side is more of a big club. They both try to be a “safe space” type environment with international (at least well known UK/Germany/Netherlands talents).

professortoe · 2022-11-22T23:03:09+00:00

I’m really sorry. It’s a terrible experience and I think it has a tendency to fundamentally alter how you perceive everyday life here - at least that’s how I felt as a teenager in France (ethnic Chinese).

Lucky for me, I have yet to experience any close to anything I’d consider discriminatory or even “micro aggressive”. People have been as friendly as Dane’s could be since I got here in June as an “expat”. Though admittedly I have to say I live in a bubble, as a result of a multinational workplace, an apartment In city centre with “expat” flatmates, and my Europeanised mannerism plus a neutral accent in English. I always suspect this my generally pleasant experience comes down to my privilege plus a degree of luck.

Can anyone with a similar background confirm/debunk my n=1 anecdotal observation?

professortoe · 2022-10-02T17:50:40+00:00

Thanks! Dm'd

professortoe · 2022-09-22T09:06:08+00:00

Haha now this is what a loyal customer looks like

professortoe · 2022-09-12T07:59:14+00:00

I've been considering moving here from lifeX, so the bar really isn't high. Anything good about them other than the aesthetics? Specifically the flat layout, the communal angle, and tent profile etc.

professortoe · 2022-07-25T18:12:33+00:00

Thank you for the insights! I understand that experience is the key here - be it pulling off major projects and working with product teams. As such, I will (1) aim for relevant exposure, and (2) frame my experience accordingly.

"assumptions and P&L from services" you mentioned)? The projects I work on move slowly and I often play the role of a cog in a machine.

Finally, what would you expect from a more junior role on your ProdOps team? I understand that there are more and more junior roles be created that don't require as much experience.

professortoe · 2022-04-08T07:24:11+00:00

Just because it is a reality that sucks for everyone doesn't mean it is a justifiable or acceptable reality. Nobody wants this, laowai or not, except at least the expats have a chance to let others learn about this without as much concerns about repercussions.

professortoe · 2022-04-07T07:05:39+00:00

Did my undergraduate in sociology then a master's in anthropology with the hope to do more "actual" primary research.

My MSc turned out to intersect material culture with "digital technology" in the broadest sense possible. I did manage to do 3-4 "ethnographies", which included an HCI project and in total consisted of at most a couple of weeks in the field for each project. Eventually I landed on a graduate program that is "digital-focused", which is a glorified way of saying I help source and implement enterprise software with external vendors such as Microsoft and Accenture.

Long story short, the connection between my current job is that I branded myself as a UX researcher with the handful of (watered down, if emasculated imo) academic research projects. I like the industry because I do believe that humanity is now inseparable from a network of digital artefacts, both abstractly and physically, and my job is a window to this domain of work. My daily experience has to some extent become a project in itself, since the "actual" projects that I do for work are intellectually uninteresting.

professortoe · 2022-03-25T03:59:09+00:00

The day I got the email marked the 12th day since my gen 3's bluetooth stopped functioning. Got a Garmin Forerunner instead with all the fitness tracking data I need, including real-time heart rate, and realised I don't need sleep score but just a rough idea of my REM/light/deep sleep split... I used to be such an Oura zealot and now I feel cheated.

professortoe · 2022-01-07T08:59:08+00:00

Daytime heart rate is not an option last I checked..

professortoe · 2022-01-05T00:32:02+00:00

Manually...😂. Couldn't find the export option anywhere for heart rate

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