No , you aren ' t required to do any more work for them . Your only obligation would be to ensure they have access to the work you did do while employed passwords , that sort of thing . As a business owner , you can fire people , or have them work for youThe two are mutually exclusive . What are the penalties for them for not fulfilling the term of your contract ? <| sep |> Challenge it you dingus . <| sep |> I think perhaps unhelpfully that the feeling of not fitting in totally may never quite go away . I ' m sorry . But I have found it useful to focus on specific things that interest me and so that are universal across cultures rather than try and find people who have shared a lot of the same experiences growing up . It ' s just not reasonable to try and surround myself with a group of people who grew up moving around and are a bunch of misfits like me . Trying to find that group and failing is part of what makes me feel like I don ' t fit in . Instead , I ' ve tried flipping it . I can kind of fit in anywhere , if I want . And so you find stuff that interests you play an instrument ? play a sport ? want to learn a language ? cycle ? and use that to become part of a group . They won ' t share your international background , but they ' ll share interest in a specific topic and you can use that to build connections . It will be hard because you ' ll feel like you don ' t necessarily connect at that deeper level that you ' re looking for people won ' t speak the same TCK language as you do . But one thing to remember is that lots of people have dealt with pieces of the TCK culture through their own nonTCK experiences having to deal with major changes in their lives , loss of close friends , separation exposure to new cultures , love of adventure , adapting to new people and places . They may not have experienced it to the degree that you have , but everyone has a little piece of it . Kids who are not from Sydney who are there for the first time will be going through some of this , too . Maybe seek them out . I try to focus on those areas we have in common , even if it ' s just a few connection points as opposed to total overlap , if that makes sense . Last thing , I try to treat all my interactions as learning experiences I should be able to learn something from every person I interact with . The old guy who has lived in the same place his whole life and never left his town he has a perspective that I don ' t have . I need to respect that and learn from it . You can learn some pretty amazing things . I know I ' m preaching to the choir , and as a TCK you already know this . But in the tougher times I ' ve been through during various moves I ' ve found that this piece of it is easy to forget . Anyway , sorry for the long rambling response . I know it ' s tough . But you ' ll eventually make some connections with TCKs and nonTCKs . Hang in there . Hugs from the other side of the world .