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Career
Tips
Relocation
essentials never leave home without it.
Relocation hangover
Relocating
to a new place is a difficult and a painful process. Moving to
a new town means starting out all over again. Leaving your friends,
comfort, familiarity is difficult. Over and above that the process
of packing and unpacking is hateful. So, it is imperative for
you to be meticulous when it is time to pack your bags, lock stock
and barrel.
Where
are you moving?
On job, you are obviously moving to another town or city. Get
to know the city. Make efforts to understand the city, form the
point of view of people, their attitudes, civic sense and the
rules of life out there. Moving to a new place can be both exciting
and disastrous, so know about it. As they as, it is important
to be Roman in Rome.
Your
first trip
Concentrate your efforts on finding an accommodation. Make use
of all the possible contacts in the city. A good idea would be
to take local help. Catch someone who has lived in the city for
a fair amount of time. Ask your colleagues as well. Identify a
few good residential areas and based on your budget, scout for
accommodation. Use your work credentials to find yourself a better
place to live in.
Clear up your
old place
Relocating involves clearing up a good deal of paper work. Getting
every document into place is tedious. Make sure all your certificates
at work and other documents are duly attested and all formalities
completed, so you do not need to come back again and again. Ensure
that all payments are cleared. Notify the telephone, the bank,
credit card, insurance and utility service firms such as gas and
other services that can be transferred to the new location.
Packing
Plan your packing room by room. First and foremost clear out all
the junk. To minimise loss, pack according to location.
New work place
Make your first friends in the office. For a few days, work place
becomes your only haunt till you develop a social circle for yourself.
Take your phone book along with you. You may need to make calls
to friends and relatives back home.
Food
Food is always a major concern. However, every new place would
have a few hotels and joints that serve the kind of food you like.
Check them out till your palette is sensitised to the native food
style. Every kind of food is going to be equally nutritious, but
it takes a while for your taste buds to accept new kinds of food
with relish.
Keep these pointers
in mind and you never have to suffer a relocation hangover!!
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