[justforthispost]

I'm in Japan and I've been unemployed for about 5 months. It's not that I'm holding for the "perfect" job. I just wanted a "decent" programming job.

I don't mind working overtime, I just don't want to work 70+ hours every week. I'm OK with working "under stress", but I don't want to work for xenophobic bullies like my last boss.

I don't even expect to do truly exciting work (for instance working at a company like Google or startup like RethinkDB, just to illustrate) anymore, I'd settle for any job that let me actually build software, as opposed to pure app support or pure DBA.

And getting a decent salary. And by decent salary I don't mean the exorbitant salaries that experienced programmers earn in the US (like over U$120k). I'd be happy with $70k or even less if the company was interesting. After many rejections at large foreign companies, I applied for a "senior programmer" position at a small company and after multiple tests and interviews I got an offer. The offer was about U$35k/year. FML.

[ixacto]

I know many people on here are kinda libertarian...but have you looked at the government? It would still be possible to make >60k/year and work 40 hrs a week, although it might end up being boring work.

[justforthispost]

Well, I'm not Japanese so that's practically impossible (outside of universities).

[raghava]

s/Japan/India

s/US\$35/SG\$40

Sums up my current situation.

[fakeer]

Your exp? INR 21.1 LPA in Singapore isn't less? But I might not be knowing living costs in SG actually. Or is it an onsite post - LinkedIn says Infy?

[raghava]

Yet to update LinkedIn. Ex Infy since Nov 12, back in India.