Joking aside, there is a lot of contract work to help EU quasi-governative entities to move off US clouds. I have been on contract for the last 18 months to recreate some functionality of AWS on top of OVH for a client adjacent to the European Space Agency.

The catch is that being government contract you, the guy doing the actual work, are beneath three or four layers of companies and bureaucracy and you get over engineered yet somehow too vague specs and projects that take 6 months just to get approved. But hey, the pay is good, and it’s for one of the better causes.

My other EU client, a much smaller non-tech company for whom I host their servers, has recently wanted to know if we depend on any US services, to reduce their exposure.

I believe you can get decent work just by advertising yourself as an expert in migrating code and data out of the US.

That said, the job and economy situation is a big question mark and appetite to invest has lessened dramatically so YMMV

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Imustaskforhelp an hour ago | parent [-]

> That said, the job and economy situation is a big question mark and appetite to invest has lessened dramatically so YMMV

Could you elaborate perhaps a bit more on this on actually why the appetite for investment has lessened? I'd be curious to know more, thanks!

	▲	sph 35 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I am no economist nor work in sales so my opinion is worthless, but it’s both waiting to see where this AI nonsense leads us, the stock market being an absolute shitshow solely propped up by this AI nonsense while the rest of Europe is in a phase of stagflation, the geopolitical situation at home and with our crazy partner, plus companies readjusting after the end of ZIRP. Fair to say investments and new projects are a bit harder to come by.