Would you go?
Will you leave your job to join an accelerator on the other side of the world without knowing what might happen or how big a failure it could be? (My friends are trying to persuade me not to go...)
that wasn't to join an accelerator, and it was moving with someone, but it wasn't so hard. moving to another country is both easier and harder than you might think. it's easier in that really, it's just not hard. i mean, you just do it. like falling off a log. it's harder in that, over the much longer timescale, living in a different culture affects different people in different ways.
but the only way you can find out is to do it.
what i am trying to say is that i would not let worrying about the NEW things put me off. it's not too hard / if it is too hard you can do something else.
BUT i would still worry about the OLD things - what you might be losing. for example, would you be leaving a partner or, say, ill family behind? that's the kind of thing you can see and understand now, and decide on.
so i would think about what i would be losing. those are known things. if you're not losing much, then go for it. the new can't be predicted and there's no real reason to think it will be bad...
ps i have always been careful financially (and lucky in coming from a middle class background), so have always had savings to fall back on. i guess that is something i simply assume; ymmv there.
Your friends don't want you to go because of the bounds you have with them, obviously, but I'm sure they'll support you if you choose to go, but remember to keep thoose bounds alive, it's essential.
Rio De Janeiro, 22, the $2000 that I have to pay off to my current company, the contingency plan would be just to find another job in IT...
so I'm pretty sure I should go, I just don't know why I feel so bad about leaving my current company and my project but I know that I may never have another chance like this.
Quite honestly, you're the only one really able to answer your question. If you don't have much to loose, and a lot to gain, you should go for it. Being young means that you can afford to lose a bit of time in that sort of experiment, and that you probably didn't invest a lot in settling where you are. At some point later in your life, unless you are really successful (or if your job allows it), the world will expect you to settle somewhere, because it gets harder and harder to do it as one get older (think savings, relationships, building a family).
Your friends can always visit
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