what is the best city in Norway to work and live as a welder?

what is the best city in Norway to work and live as a welder

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1. The best pay will be offshore or onshore shift work, if you're willing to do this. It usually means 28 or 14 days on (12+ hour days), often living at a work camp, followed by 14 days off living at home. I used to work at Mongstad, a large Statoil refinery 1.5 hours north of Bergen on the west coast. There are several other refineries in the area (Kollsnes is another), meaning that you can live in Bergen (or wherever you want) during your off days, and live on camp while you work. Statoil hires directly, or does subcontracting through companies like Fabricom. You can get hired directly in Norway, or work for a UK company (usually based in Aberdeen or Newcastle). http://www.statoilhydro.com/en/Pages/default.aspx http://www.fabricom.no/site/Default.aspx?lc=en http://www.fabricom.co.uk/ Stavanger and Haugesund on the west coast are also very industrial, with both offshore and normal work. Kongsberg, Drammen, and similar are in the east, but they aren't as nice as the west coast. It should be easy to get a welding job there. You can search the government job database at: https://www.nav.no/sbl/stillingssok/enkelt.do In the Søk etter ord i stillingsannonse field, type sveiser (welder) and click Søk. Everything's in Norwegian, but you can use a translator like the one at Google if needed. http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en You can often get this sort of work even without speaking Norwegian, because there are more jobs than there are people. Occasionally there are even jobs listed in English, like the following (application due today!): https://www.nav.no/sbl/stillingssok/stillingsannonse.do?id=1851195 Many people reside in other countries (with lower living costs) and work in Norway, but a welder salary here is more than enough to have a comfortable life even at Norwegian costs.