Bymonek
I think its very important that someone posts the bad sides of this job as well.
I was hesitating myself a long time..... i left my country to come to work in Ireland and since then i cant complain i have now 3 years of experience mostly in finance sector. Stability and by that i mean working monday-friday , paid overtimes and all benefits, private medical cover that is paid for us... my salary not so great around 1700E, and all bills on my head. We get annual raise of 3% and the yearly bonus of about 800E, so is Emirates so different?.....
I was asking myself if i want to change everything, specially that now im 28.
The way i see it is i will travel the world and i might have no such a chance ever again, some adventure and maybe less serious life. But i know i wont stay there and im treating it just as a career break.
Im sitting 8 hours in front of pc and most of the time i have to go through a medical history of people who died, its really depressing.
i hope i will be able to find myself there i dont expect to much they pay you mostly to smile and not question too much i think once you realize that it will be fine. And i used to work in a call center.. try that they even control when you go to the toilet
And with the appraisal system i think its like that across the board. Each company tells you about this great opportunities waiting for you. So you work harder and harder and you tend to get nothing but more responsibilities... been there done that.
and in regards to treating ... most of the companies treat you like a machine you are trained to do your job and nothing more they dont ask you to think how to innovate the system ( im talking here bout big corporations) everything has to stay the way it is. And even if there are innovations you are not the one to decide there are specialists to do that..... which have no clue what exactly you are doing.
So in my opinion its pretty similar everywhere, dont expect too much if you are one of hundreds people working for the same company. Its just about your attitude,and knowing where you want to go.