{"id":326,"date":"2007-08-05T12:10:25","date_gmt":"2007-08-05T10:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jobshuk.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/05\/why-you-shouldn-t-look-for-work-outside-of-israel\/"},"modified":"2007-08-05T12:10:25","modified_gmt":"2007-08-05T10:10:25","slug":"why-you-shouldn-t-look-for-work-outside-of-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobshuk.com\/zvi\/2007\/08\/05\/why-you-shouldn-t-look-for-work-outside-of-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Why you shouldn&#8217;t look for work outside of Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found <a href=\"http:\/\/jobmob.co.il\/blog\/why-i-decided-not-to-look-for-a-job-from-outside-israel\/trackback\/\" target=\"_blank\">this article entitled Why I Decided Not to Look for a Job From Outside Israel<\/a> while skimming the JobMob blog today. I was very excited to read why the author decided not to freelance to ouside of Israel. Unfortunately, the article is about looking for a full-time job in Israel before making Aliya. This isn&#8217;t what I expected, but it&#8217;s still a good read (I&#8217;d say line up clients before you make Aliya, like my friend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rankabove.com\/who-is-rankabove\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dan at RankAbove<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>I found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/careers\/workingparents\/blog\/archives\/2007\/05\/to_freelance_or.html\" target=\"_blank\">this article<\/a> explaining one women&#8217;s dillema &#8211; to freelance or get a full-time job. I&#8217;ve written what I think are the biggest problems <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><font size=\"6\">The Problems<\/font>\n<ol>\n<li><font size=\"5\">The Office<\/font><br \/>When I was doing part-time work from home, I took a small pay cut, reduced my hours significantly, and was able to set my own hours. My life had a lot of flexibility and I took advantage of it for a while, but I missed having human interaction. I got myself a full-time job and enjoyed having people around, although I did most of my work alone.<\/li>\n<li><font size=\"5\">The Stability<\/font><br \/>At that full-time job, I spoke with a co-worker who spent 10-15 hours in the office every day, who said that he used to freelance, but his wife needed the regular paycheck.<\/li>\n<li><font size=\"5\">The Benefits<\/font><br \/>The car, the retirement plans, the health insurance (not in Israel).<\/li>\n<li><font size=\"5\">The Bravery<\/font><br \/>Once again, people&#8217;s <a href=\"\/blog\/show\/stripped_title\/is-the-fire-under-your-butt-or-are-you-chicken\" target=\"_blank\">fears<\/a> insist that one has to be brave to make the move away from full-time jobs. Usually this stems from the stability argument, but it&#8217;s often articulated on its own that I insisted on listing it separately. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li><font size=\"6\">The Solutions<\/font>\n<ol>\n<li><font size=\"5\">The Office<\/font><br \/>For me, my desire to work with others could have been satisfied with an office sharing situation, but my employer didn&#8217;t want to pay for it, which meant I would have had to get more work to afford it, or get a full-time job with an office included. The full-time job was more than I bargained for! Simply the limitations it put on my lifestyle was incongruous with my Gen-whatever attitude. Maybe full-time employers should learn from freelancers and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/magazine\/content\/06_50\/b4013001.htm?chan=search\" target=\"_blank\">Best Buy<\/a> and try their ROWE system for balancing corporate life with flexibility. <\/li>\n<li><font size=\"5\">The Stability<\/font><br \/>I&#8217;ve spoken amongst my friends (and with my wife) about womens&#8217; need for stability. I won&#8217;t go into it in-depth here, but I&#8217;ll say that it makes sense from a physiological point of view (imagine you couldn&#8217;t work for a few months when you got pregnant) as well as many other reasons. Men tend to have less-foresight and more adaptability skills, so it&#8217;s less of a concern for them. As long as you spend some time developing the skills and resources to land enough good-paying work, there should be enough consistency\/stability and enough money to convince anyone of the rewards of freelance work.<\/li>\n<li><font size=\"5\">The Benefits<\/font><br \/>I don&#8217;t know much about this. I won my own car and was never given one by a company. I have national health care, I have a retirement plan which was started at my last job and I hope to continue funding it privately. With the money that I&#8217;m saving and earning now, I can afford to pay for this on my own.<\/li>\n<li><font size=\"5\">The Bravery<\/font><br \/>Yes, there is a voice inside all of us that fears failure, especially when we insist that it&#8217;s our fault. When the company we work for fails, it&#8217;s not our fault, but we&#8217;re stuck in the same situation &#8211; jobless and penniless. The real difference is that you had no control over the company&#8217;s failure, but you&#8217;re responsible for your own failures. Let&#8217;s all decide to grow up, act like adults with responsiblity for our lives and livelihood, and take actions for success.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you think I&#8217;ve missed something, over-simplified matters, or I&#8217;m just full of crap, leave me a comment below.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this article entitled Why I Decided Not to Look for a Job From Outside Israel while skimming the JobMob blog today. I was very excited to read why the author decided not to freelance to ouside of Israel. 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