Who wants a job Surveying for up to 135K per year?????.......

Doha (Qatar) touts itself as being the "richest city in the world". You would think they would be offering $1.35m not a pittance like $135k.?ÿ ?????ÿ

I started out surveying as a teenager in that neck of the woods. Couldn't make it worth my while to go back if you paid me five times that.

@flga-pls-2-2

But you're just a foreign contractor......not and actual citizen.   I learned more than I wanted to about the differences during my month in Kuwait there last year.

@williwaw

What about six times as much?  😉 

@jitterboogie

Well, let me think about that. No. Not for all the tea in China.

I moved nearly to the arctic to get as far from that place as I could.

Clearly I'm doing it wrong if 135K is a pay cut.

There are a couple what - ifs for me. what if...

• It was tax free money
• Benefits were provided over and above the $135K
• 100% of my travel and living expenses were covered
• There was some form of per diem

$135K in the bank after a year of it would be pretty attractive. I still wouldn't go to Doha for that though. Maybe double that.

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@jitterboogie

In other words a "servant" who should be damn glad to be there?

@flga-pls-2-2

Sort of..... hired help.....Although I did get a few open channels with people that normally would never even consider speaking with or to me.....  Amazing the power of having collected data that's pushing a multi year project can have over cultural and social differences.....  

I wouldn't go because I would then be that dammed surveyor from Timbuktu who doesn't know squat about the local uniqueness of boundary surveying. ???? ?????ÿ

Nope nope nope.

$135k is crap for that part of the world.?ÿ

If it was tax free and they paid my housing I'd seriously consider going for a year or two.?ÿ No family to haul around would make it pretty simple to manage.

@lee-d

I believe most of the accommodations, transportation & allowances are above wages for middle east contracts.

Those of you with low-balling colleagues need to share this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity with them!

Sell it.

They'll come back rich!

Did I ever tell you about the time I almost moved my family to Iran. I was offered a lucrative survey job and it would have been a great opportunity for the family to learn a new culture and way of life. I turned it down because the formal contract letter I received had glaring spelling and grammatical errors (it was an American company) and that told me they weren't quite the quality firm I wanted to work for. The Iranian revolution broke out just about the time we would have arrived. That would have been a disaster. I'm glad I paid attention to my intuition.

@bruce-small

I mentioned in another post, twenty years ago I worked for a hydropower engineering consultant in England. One of their projects was in Iran and at one of the Friday afternoon show-and-tell sessions one of the company engineers described the project, including the main difficulty with dealing with the Iranian counterparts - that being, and they were formally told as such, that the folk over there couldn't give two hoots on a candy whistle how things were spelled, as long as the verbal reading sounded correct. 

@bruce-small

Then I would suggest that you avoid Japan if your main consideration is grammar. Not every country would be focusing on grammar if they were doing the hiring. 

@bstrand

I can forward you the information if you really want to go. I went unsupported to the most Liberal and  laid back GCC for Americans, Kuwait.  Its a shockingly different place amidst the Five guys, McDonalds, etc..... there is an amazing cultural gap to learn about each other, as longas you're with the right people.  Otherwise you can become a news story in the wrong people.  HMU. 

How about some Middle East War stories from the guys that have been there, done that?