I work for a small company and they have talked about sending me to the UK off-and-on for the past year. I have told them I would love to go, but ideally just for a few months.
They finally asked me to go for 6 months and they want me there relatively soon. However, they asked me what my living situation is and if I can sublease my current apartment or put my stuff in storage while I'm there. I verified with my boss that they won't be paying for my housing (the cost of living there is slightly below where I live now) and it doesn't really sound like they will be giving me any sort of stipend either (although this has not been completely verified).
I talked to a couple friends and have gotten conflicting answers from "sounds normal" to "wtf are they smoking."
I would love to go, but I am thinking of a million little costs that are going to add up: putting my car in storage, having to eat out more (I doubt furnished apartments come with all the kitchenware I am used to using), extra costs for cell phone and gym, taking public transit or renting a car, etc. I'm already underpaid at this place, but there are various reasons I stick around.
I think I'm going to do some more research and go back to them next week with a number I will need in order to do this (likely rent + a couple hundred/week as a stipend).
Hoping for opinions on if what they're offering is typical or completely exploitative or somewhere in the middle. I want to make this work and as excited as I was when they first asked, I'm now a little miffed that I may have to walk away from this opportunity because of finances.
Submitted June 08, 2019 at 04:20PM by i_can_dooo_it http://bit.ly/2I2mUE4
