On 25/10/2011 05:00 PM, Darren New wrote:
> On 10/24/2011 0:58, Invisible wrote:
>>>> Why did you even apply?!" I'd feel like I wasted everybody's time.
>>>
>>> What if they said "We'll give you $150,000 more each year to move to
>>> London"?
>>
>> That's almost a hundred grand in UK currency. Nobody earns that much.
>
> I earn more, and I'm at the low end of the scale for what I do. No, you
> probably won't earn that much because you don't have the experience, but
> maybe you'll get something more significant than what you have now.

I'm sure very few places pay *less* than what I'm earning now. Back when 
I was actually having agents contact me, I was asking for roughly twice 
what I currently earn - and nobody seemed that surprised by such a 
figure. But ten times? That seems a stretch.

>> AFAIK, London is their only UK presence. (Although obviously they
>> themselves would have a better idea than I do.)
>
> Indeed. There are lots of companies that have offices where you wouldn't
> have thought they have an office. Like, the office I'm in now. They
> don't really advertise where they have offices.

Korg's UK headquarters are just down the road from me, in fact.

It's a 1-room office. I've been there.

>> And it's not that I don't ever want to come to London, just that I don't
>> want to do so with any great frequency. Once per month wouldn't be so
>> bad. Once per day would be.
>
> How far away is it? Get a place in London, come home on the weekends, or
> for dancing.

I'm not sure how far it is to central London. I know that my 
grandparents live just on the outskirts. It's 40 miles in distance, and 
yet it takes between 1.5 and 2 hours to drive there. (!!) I also know 
that a train trip is about an hour. (Once you've waited an hour for a 
train to actually show up...)

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