What to do with my career after ?
What to do with my career after ?
Welcome to Sharethelove
Moving abroad entails more than cultural obstacles and language barriers. It also brings change into your life on every dimension. Relationships and marriages do change along the way, friends are missed, professional identity is on stake and most women are struggling finding new fulfillment in their life when the former job can’t be packed in a box and brought along on this adventure of living abroad. This website is here to help, to inspire, to empower, and to show you that the time abroad is a great opportunity for personal development if used right.
Career Planning
Plan your career as the Expat Partner and enjoy your professional life abroad.
Embracing Diversity
Learn about intercultural communication and how to handle culture differences.
Motherhood
Find a support network to focus on your professional and personal development while not blending out motherhood.
Why is it called SharetheLove?
SharetheLove is about motivating and supporting each other. The journey of an expat partner can be very lonely. In times of big changes and lack of support network, you often feel misunderstood or out of place. ShartheLove is a home for all expats, expat partners, and global minds to learn from each other, inspire each other and realize that you are not alone with your problems. In the spririt of SharetheLove, the world is a better place when we are open for change and willing to walk the planet with an open heart and open eyes.
Thoughts of other fellow readers and clients
Who am I without my career?
The profession is an important pillar and fulfillment for me. What to do if I can't continue my career as planned?
I feel lost and alone
My new life is exciting but also lonely. How do I create a new home abroad?
The calm before the storm
The move abroad or back is imminent. I would like to prepare for it and consciously control my next steps.
If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got
Albert Einstein
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Most recent Blog Posts
Modern Expatriation & Global Careerists
Also, besides COVID-19, the global war for talent is ongoing. Companies are still operating on a global scale and need qualified and experienced employees to master the task. In a very interesting piece, Yvonne McNulty, one of the best-known researchers in the field of expatriate management, is shedding light on what is changing in expat recruitment. In this blog post, I am sharing some insights from this study and explain the effects on the accompanying family and especially the expat partner.
From Hobby to Profession – Expat Partner Role Model Story
SharetheLove shares stories from successful expat partner around the world. This time, the amazing photographer Leonie shares her story of how her hobby became her profession
Rediscovering your intuition abroad
When your career plans abroad have not worked out: Listen to your intuition and pause your busy mind. Here is my personal story of my life abroad.
Most discussed Blog Posts
The aimless & spoilt expat spouse – an opinion piece
A couple of days ago, I stumbled across yet another media coverage about expat spouses and the fact that those well-educated women are throwing away their career ambitions to follow their husband abroad. Interestingly enough, the comments below the post have been even more prejudiced than the article itself. I wonder why it is so hard to change the image of the expat spouse and what we can do to become recognized as what we are: amazing, brave, solution-oriented globe trotters with a lot of understanding for global issues?
The Expatriation: A journey into the past for modern women?
Since I started my adventure of living abroad and even more after diving into the business behind expatriation, I am fascinated by the shift of gender roles after moving abroad. In this blog post, I want to elaborate a bit about my personal experience with the gender inequalities in expatriation and add some interesting resources I found.
The Impostor Syndrom: Why it is such a big deal for Expats/Expat Partners
I recently joined a webinar about the Impostor Syndrom amongst the Expat community by Monika Evje. It was really interesting and offered a lot of helpful information, so I did some further research and decided to share my learnings in a blog post.
The 5 phases of culture shock and how to go through smoothly
Culture shock is what you can expect when moving to another country. It does not matter if you move to a place similar to your own culture or you are changing continents. No matter the distance, you will still experience a cultural shock and the different phases it comes with.
5 big communication differences between Americans and Germans
Living in the US as a German gives me the opportunity to observe many small differences throughout my day. In the following, I have written down 5 big communication-related habits that are very distinct in each country.
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