There was a once upon a time when I would have gone for that. When I was in my 20's, single, just out of school, out of work...... but, now, not so much. I'm not that far off making that where I am.?ÿ
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Commas do save lives!
This episode of American Dad highlights the culture shock that could occur with a similar move of an entire family to that corner of the world.?ÿ Actually the link is to Part II of a two part episode.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0511643/?ref_=tt_ep_nx
There are some guys here with actual middle east war stories. I'm not sure that is what you meant.
Okay, here is an example of what I mean: I worked with a guy who mentioned he worked in the Middle East. He said if you touch someone with your left hand they get insulted. How come? What's the reason?
In a prior time that had no toilet paper and a part of the world with no corn cobs and a shortage of water or suitable plant leaves, you gotta use something. Health reasons became a religious and social thing as well. Old cultural prejudices die slowly even as circumstances change.
In 1977 I was working for Brown and Root (later Halliburton) in Houston.?ÿ I was offered 100K to go to the Gulf of Oman for a year.?ÿ They would fly me anywhere in the world every two months for a two week break.?ÿ At that time money you earned overseas was tax exempt in the USA.?ÿ Unfortunately I had only been married for two months and this was a no dependent deal.?ÿ I told them that I appreciated it but that I am from Georgia.?ÿ I?ÿ COULD walk home from Texas but I couldn't walk home from Oman.
Andy
There all kinds of ways to offend, like putting your feet up and showing someone the soles of your shoes. I watched a fight one time between a couple of Arabs. Now here in the west we might duke it out with our fists, but not there. They'll take off their sandals and b*tch slap each other silly. It's was actually quite funny to watch. What's not so funny is to see how they treat workers from the Philippines, Bangladesh and others, like dirt. You as a "guest worker', have zero rights and can be arrested and imprisoned without any charges. Get in an accident? It's your fault by default. An American kid I knew that got caught spray painting graffiti got 40 lashes with a cane before they booted him and his family. I've got my share of 'war stories' and I've seen and experienced things over there I'd just as soon forget.
Just because I'm paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get me.
Thanks for the replies good for a laugh. The guy I worked with had more than a few stories from the Middle East, had me in stitches more than once.
Nah. But I would be divorced (grin).
We were building a ship dock in the Houston Ship Channel. The fellow who was going to be the project manager in Oman was put on temporary duty on the job I was on (basically just to have a place to keep him until mobilization). I was the "field engineer", read surveyor, on the job. I could lay out more on Monday morning than they could build the rest of the week. I could have spent the rest of the time in my shack drinking coffee and reading the paper but I'd have been bored out of my mind. I helped build forms, tied steel, tried to learn how to operate a crane, and did whatever I saw needed doing. I also spent a lot of lunch times teaching some of the tradesmen how to lay out things themselves (3,4,5 triangle, etc.) I think it impressed the manager and he wanted me to go with him.
Andy
In 2007 I was offered a job in Dubai on a project that probably would've lasted around 2 - 3 years.
US$150k one off payment
US$150k yearly salary (tax free)
All my own gear, accommodation and assistants paid for.
I said yes, but the company who approached me didn't win the tender.
135K in 2019? That doesn't seem to be enough.
I looked back at my 1980 pay in southwest asia and north africa. $690 a month after my mid-year promotion...
It's hard to remember how bad the economy was back in the late '70s to early '80s. Experienced people were out of work and entry level jobs, even burger flipping type jobs, just didn't exist. It was every bit as bad as 2008 et.seq., only it lasted nearly a decade. I was 2 years out of high school at that time working the 3 am shift in a pizza kitchen for $4/hr. That was not a "living wage" then either. My friends considered me lucky to have a job. And I was. I graduated from engineering school in 1984 but did not find a job in a related field (ie/ surveying) until late 1988.
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Use a filter type email to respond to them to avoid being inundated with junk recruiter emails etc. Good luck, let us know what happens.