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今天和从伦敦调派到日内瓦工作的朋友讨论在伦敦工作好还是日内瓦工作好,聊了一下觉得好想咆哮,我觉得 UNNC的小朋友有条件的话可以把目光从伦敦挪到日内瓦,这年头天下找工作一样难,竞争激烈或是工作签证难拿其实到哪儿都一样。很重要的一点是,日内瓦和 其他瑞士或欧洲城市不一样,说英语的工作比例很大很大!!!!
下面是伦敦和日内瓦的对比
平均收入:London < Geneva (给个Benchmark:Geneva麦当劳店员的年收入约30万)
房租消费:London > Geneva
除房租以外的消费:London < Geneva
剩下的可支配收入:London< Geneva
经济稳定性:London < Geneva
(瑞士受各种危机影响相对英国小很多,一来不是欧盟成员国不被落后国家拖累,二来经济结构上瑞士和德国很像,有强大high-end和high-valued的机械,化工实业为金融业做支撑,伦敦除了金融业我孤陋寡闻不知道还有啥)
人口:Geneva: 19万< London 800 万 (太悬殊了,所以人均幸福明显要强一点)
交通:Geneva很小,可以吹吹风步行或骑车上班,London呵呵呵
工作/生活平衡:Geneva 明显优于 London
日常娱乐生活 (if in terms of 夜店,戏剧): Geneva < London
人均美食:Geneva > London (Geneva是世上人均餐馆最多的地方)
国际化程度:Geneva>London (Geneva很少遇到本地人)
天气:Geneva天气挺好的>London的雨天就不说了
度假生活:Geneva > London
(瑞士的风景英国境内只有苏格兰可以与之拼一下,Geneva在欧洲中心,到巴塞罗那,巴黎,柏林,米兰等各种fancy城市均小于2小时)
如果说Geneva明显差于London的东西,可能在于艺术和历史感,不当艺术家的话我不知道这个因素有多重要,但住在Geneva,罗马,巴塞罗那和巴黎一个多小时就到了。
Private Sector篇
朋友说日内瓦就是个浓缩版的纽约,你可以找到你想做的任何东西,而且满眼望去都是总部啊总部!!!
在日内瓦的主要MNC (*为全球或欧洲总部)
Consumer goods:
P&G*, Nestle*, Colgate-Palmolive*, etc
Banks: (总部大都在苏黎世,日内瓦算第二重要)
UBS, Credit Swiss, JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, BNP PARIBAS, Barclays, Nomura, ING, RBC, Standard Charter, HSBC, Lloyds TSB, Lombard Odier & Cie, Crédit Agricole*, Citibank, American express, etc
High-tech manufacturing
DuPont*, Caterpillar*, Lockheed Martin*, Gillette*, Hewlett Packard*, IBM microelectronics*, Oracle*, ABB, AMD advance micro devices*, Agillent technologies*, GE, Federal Mogul*, Monsonto, Novartis Group, Roche Group, Merck Serono, etc..
Commodity trading related:
Vitol group*, Trafigura*, Cargill International*, Mercuria energy*, AWB*, Bunge, Louis-Dreyfus trading, Sungrain, Novel Commodities*, DHL*, Maersk, Mediterranean shipping, International Petroleum Products, etc
Luxury: World Capital of watch
Richemont*, Rolex*, Patek Philippe*, Piaget*, Vacheron Constantin*, Chopard*, etc
Public Sector篇:
日内瓦是除了纽约以外的世界外交中心,全球170多个国家的permanent mission常设在此。
总部设在日内瓦的国际组织有200个,很有趣的是主要的国际组织有权雇佣任何国籍的员工而不经瑞士官方quota限制,因为其雇员的签证体系是独立的。列一下主要的:
- The United Nations Office at Geneva
- The World Trade Organization (WTO)
- The World Health Organization (WHO)
- The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
- The World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
- The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)
- The World Economic Forum (WEF)
- The International Labour Organization (ILO)
- The International Organization for Migration (IOM)
- The International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
- The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
- The International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
- The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR)
- The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
- The Global Fund
- The Internet Governance Forum (IGF)
- The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
- The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)
- The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC)
- The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)
- The International Road Transport Union (IRU)
- The International Union Against Cancer (UICC)
- The World Council of Churches (WCC)
- The World Heart Federation (WHF)
- the World Organization of the Scout Movement
- The International Civil Defence Organization (ICDO)
- The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU)
- The World Student Christian Federation WSCF
- The European Broadcasting Union (EBU)
- The Aga Khan Foundation
- The Airports Council International
- ICVolunteers (ICV)
- The Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC)
- The UN Watch
- The World Wide Web Virtual Library
- The International Association for the Study of Insurance Economics
最后想说的是,听许多从世界各地来到日内瓦工作的人说,无论从商或是从政,这里的事业和生活都是他们人生中的一种巅峰,一种privilege。今天作为山脚下旁观者写下这篇日志是为了提醒自己十年或是二十年以后想要回归想要探索的世界。