---------------------------------------- Italian Citizenship July 21st, 2018 ---------------------------------------- Today I am officially an Italian citizen. I went though an extremely long process to claim my citizenship via a process called jure sanguinis. I proved, in essence, that I have always been an Italian citizen by way of birth since my ancestor who immegrated had children before becoming naturalized. Thus, his kids were born as Italians on foreign soil. My son also has Italian citizenship as a result, and we're going to file for my wife to get hers via marriage. I'll be getting a second passport soon, and when the dust settles, we'll be leaving the United States. If you read this phlog, you probably already know that our destination is Iceland, which will allow me residency now since it is part of the Schengen Agreement, just like Italy. Moving to Iceland as an American is a giant pain in the butt, but as an Italian it should be quite simple. This made my whole day, obviously, but it also helps me out in some bigger stress areas. I've been stressing about what to do next in my career. I have an opportunity to potentially move into a CTO role with a startup, which fascinates me and would challenge me quite a bit. It would also be an increased investment on my time, and I already work a lot. The job I'm at now is wearing on me more and more, and I don't see it as sustainable for very much longer. The move to Iceland represents a refocusing of priorities off of work and onto life. I'm planning on taking a significant pay cut, living more simply, and focusing on the family and hobbies. Since that timeline is finally "for real", it means that my current work troubles have an end in sight. That is powerful. While I finish getting all the papers in order for the family, we'll also be selling our house and moving into a much smaller apartment. We'll get rid of most of our things, place most of the leftovers into storage, and live on what we intend to ship. Once all that's in place, I'll be quitting my job, heading to Iceland on my own ahead of the family, and we'll live off the house sale money until I can find a new job, get us a new apartment, and arrange to move them over and meet me. I'm utterly thrilled! Oh, if any of you reading this are Icelandic, live or know someone in Iceland, or in any way could help me find something code-related to do in Iceland to get us settled I'd be extremely grateful. I run a technology team of web developers, front & back end. I also act as the digital strategy lead (pharmaceutical marketing) and head of analytics & reporting. I can code in JS extremely well, and prefer using vue, but can learn whatever. My php & python skills are a little rusty, but I can jump back into that in a heartbeat. Ruby? I guess I could do that too. I'm not much of a windows development guy, though. Need a programmer? Need someone to run a dev team? Need an analyst? I'm also good at balancing stuff on my chin!