Which countries have a general attitude of gratefulness and appreciation in that sense? I especially mean about work/career/business rather than personal life.
Which countries have a general attitude of gratefulness and appreciation in that sense? I especially mean about work/career/business rather than personal life.
USA for sure. Problem is I feel like shit outside of work here. I miss the sense of community I got in Vietnam. I notice the only kind of Americans with a sense of family/communal gathering level on par with the average Vietnamese person where I grew up in are religious Americans, and I just find religion too ludicrous to join churches.
I ended up using the money I earn from work here to pay for stuff that might fulfill me outside work, and pay for therapy due to culture shock and anxiety/loneliness problems coming from it. At this point I kinda give up, though, because spending money on stuff doesn’t just doesn’t feel that good anymore.
Work is great though. 10/10.
I relate with this so hard. I just ran out of things to spend money on that I didn’t end up thinking “that was dumb, I should have just dumped more money into stonks” a week later. So I left.
Yep, that is a solid insight. What is fascinating about working globally is that while we always hope others appreciate our cultures and who we are as individuals, the species of homo sapiens—like mallard ducks, humpback whales, and western diamondbacks rattlesnakes—are just animals. And we are always surprised by our collective inability to be anything other than what we are.