Headline : Rome to Bratislava: one-way ticket?

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It looks like everybody is on the move nowadays. But what do we know?

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When I was turning 50, a special milestone that forces many of us, if not most, to stop and reflect—perhaps even deeply, I decided to do something that seemed, at first glance, simply crazy. I said goodbye to the corporate world, where I had spent more than 27 years, and became a teacher. Of all things, a teacher of English. Until that moment, I had enjoyed a rather successful career, as an International Marketing and Sales executive in the IT and Defence industry, in Europe and North America. But, to make a long story short, I was no longer happy. Then, a second unorthodox thought popped up in my mind: “See if you can do that abroad”. That’s when the wheels of destiny started to spin around, faster and faster, and, of all places, I ended up in … Bratislava.

I guess I have always been stuck in some sort of middle ground. My mother was born and raised in a small town in southern Italy, on the Adriatic Sea. In what would once have been called a working-class family. Life was tough. Tilling the land or toiling in a steel mill, if you were lucky. One of my maternal grandmother’s sisters was forced to emigrate to the USA, to escape poverty and the worst mindset of all: atavism. Travelling by ship, a two-week journey in an era when long-distance communication was a significant challenge and burden. Every day.

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