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Trade winds Guardian, UK - Apr 4, 2008 But among the 200000 Britons who emigrate each year are many who have won their visas and permits in unusual occupations. Like private investigator Dave ...

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As a business, we can offer a full European investigation service from here, which few other agents can do."Now to Honduras and Cornwall College horticultural student Dan Kerins. But among the 200,000 Britons who emigrate each year are many who have won their visas and permits in unusual occupations.Like private investigator Dave Turner, managing director of legal agency The Parklane Partnership. But he says he will be able to leave the country at the end of each stay to re-enter a few days later on a new visa. Different people have different levels of cultural intelligence and abilities to be flexible. Dr Nic Sale, head of diversity at business psychologist organisation Pearn Kandola, has some advice.Know who you areIt is only when in different cultures that the value differences around the world become apparent. Even if the fit between your job and your preferred destination is not an easy one, determined people can find a way. He has received some positive feedback from Operation Wallacea, but now he just has to wait for approval and the "green light" on his proposal. If all goes well, the visa will be valid for five years at a time.However, even if your occupation is "on the list", other more formal qualifications may be needed too. If he is successful with a proposal he has made to Operation Wallacea - an organisation leading scientific conservation expeditions - Kerins will soon be helping the Hondurans grow fairtrade orchids and earning a new living. If it goes ahead, though, he will only be able to work in the country for three months at a time, due to the visa. In the UK, the firm's office is managed by his son, Colin, but Turner himself works in Bulgaria, where he has recently bought a house with his wife. It was last updated at 00:04 on April 05 2008. It was last updated at 00:04 on April 05 2008. Photograph: CorbisWhat do piano tuners, glass blowers and acupuncturists have in common? Talk to other expatriatesBut don't take their experience as being indicative of what your experience will be. The country is one in which we find UK money getting 'lost' by people who say they don't have any. They're all jobs that feature on the list of "in-demand" professions in Australia, whose points-based immigration system the UK is about to adopt. Turner's work is definitely not run-of-the-mill, as his normal duties may include undertaking commercial investigations, tracking down absconding debtors, and seeking missing heirs to hefty inheritance cheques. Understanding the fundamental ways in which cultures vary around the world will skill you up to be effective in a variety of situations, not just in a stereotypical view of one culture. Yes, the biochemists, engineers and other more conventional professions you'd expect are there too.