I actually got hired here by mistake.

I've been holidaying in Switzerland for years, since the 'seventies in fact. Never thought of working here though. I left the UK and started travelling around, financed by IT contracting. Did this for a few years and inevitably got to know a lot of people.

One day, I was sitting stuck in traffic in a rainy, grid-locked. Warsaw suberb trying to find the place where Roger Waters was going to play. Then the phone rang. It was a guy I used to drink with in Brussels who had seemingly mistaken me for someone else and asked me if I wanted to come and help manage this major multi-million project with him for six months. As I had been out of work for a while, and the Warsaw trip representing a last splash of my available funds before re-entering the UK-style poverty from whence I came, I took the job. What else was I going to do?

After about six months they sacked me, essentially invalidating my pre-bilateral L, and I returned home to celebrate what I regarded as a wholly successful six months. That celebration ended up in hospital, and one thing leading to another, I took another temporary job in Schwyz a year later. That one ended up pretty much the same way, except that any putative celebration had to be cancelled after my car blew up on the way back home, and in my letter-box was a bill from my landlord demanding the 36-months rent arrears I owed him.

Undeterred, I came back for a third attempt. I've now got my C, and through a number of well-timed resignations and staged walk-outs, have evened the score on the falling out with employers front.