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novita77 said
ask Vegas baedabok, he ...ask Vegas baedabok, he stayed there for 3 yrs i think.
stealth said
if you wanna be a mental ...if you wanna be a mental wreck then go there and do it.
novita77 said
bae, cross my month why on ...bae, cross my month why on earth u want to go and work in Iraq?
swissgirl39 said
bae,you want to work in irak? ...On ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.
(Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
baedaebok said
Swissgirl39, I should've ...Swissgirl39, I should've studied French more in public school.
Novita77, why? It'll be a good chance to feel like "Job". I need to toughen up and become stronger mentally. I should have joined the Canadian Forces when I was in middle school....but I didn't like the shouting.
I lived in Riyadh in 2003. That wasn't as extreme as daily Iraq life but it is a preview. I can live with that.
Who wants to come with me? Maybe we start "Iraq Living" website.
Alexa said
Baedibok...not to ...Baedibok...not to spook you, but I think shouting will be the last of your worries.....
Btw...were you bombed in Saudi?
Which compound did you live on?
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom : the music is nothing, if the audience is deaf.
Walter Lippmann
AbuAmerican said
I tried to go to Iraq a few ...I tried to go to Iraq a few year back and the wife went ballistic. Pay was at about 21,000 USD a month doing static security for... a company.
Sigh I would hae gone, but I probably would have been divorced too.
novita77 said
Abu ... i said the same to ...Abu ... i said the same to my husband. But then my husband very sensible, he wouldnt even think about it.
dweller said
I had an interview ...in Kuwait some years back and met a South African working for the same construction company.
He said he was flying home that night. I askd if he was going on leave to which he replied no, he was going home with a body (construction guy killed in a drive-by shooting).
That's why the salaries are so high. As someone else said, shouting is the least of your worries.
One of our neighbours in Turkey was in Iraq and considered it too dangerous. He has now opted for an easier location Helmund province in Afhganistan. He says it's much safer than Iraq.
TweetyBird said
This is what I would say ...This is what I would say to my husband if he was interested in taking a job in Iraq:
No place is safe there and when I say that, I don't mean in terms of safety compared to the rest of the world. Of course there is risk living anywhere but some places have a higher risk than others. The calculated risk in Iraq is very high because the probability of something occurring is moderate to high and the consequences when something does happen are severe.
Just check the news, the supposedly safe Green Zone has been attacked by rockets recently with deaths in the civilian sector. Also the risk of kidnapping is high as well. Sometimes money is just not worth it when you compare it to what you could lose and what your family could lose. Do you think they would rather have you or a bank account full of money earned at the risk of your life. You need to consider everyone who would be affected by your decision and what that effect will be in the short term (stress of worrying while you are there) and long term (living without you should the unimagineable happen).
novita77 said
rememberb the story about ...rememberb the story about Ken Bigley and Margareth Hassan?