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jaypereda · Joined: 07 Oct 2005 Posts: 23

Hi, I am looking for a teaching position in Manama. Is there anyone out there who knows any vacancy at his/her school?
Thank you so much,
Jay

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

Not much doing in Manama. Buy a flak jacket and join us on the other side of the Causeway ! the money is better and you can still sepnd your weekends in bahrain. Some even commute !

gochubandit · Joined: 29 Jul 2004 Posts: 42

hey out of curiosity, how long is the commute from manama to the dammam area? commuters' hell? what's the SOP on obtaining a driver's licence and a car?

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

A difficult commute but some people do it. If you already have a driving licence from your country of origim/residence there shouls not be a problem.

gochubandit · Joined: 29 Jul 2004 Posts: 42

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

In the morning there is no guarantee that you will make it on time.

Stephen Jones · Joined: 21 Feb 2003 Posts: 4124

As scot47 says the problem is the unpredictability. There is also the question of cost. You'd have to pay the causeway fee twice a day.

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

I knew someone who did this 6 days a week for a year and a half. The commute was more stressful than his job in Khobar ! Sometimes 3 or 4 hours a day !

veiledsentiments · Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA

It may be relative... I worked with people in Washington DC who did a 3 hour commute every day... both ways!! And that was normally before and after rush hour.

I can't imagine...

VS

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

Normal ? That is not normal ! These people should be in a locked ward !

veiledsentiments · Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA

One to two hours - each way - has become the norm for millions in large US urban areas... most of it in bumper-to-bumper traffic... and people wonder why I got out of working in business. Outside of New York City, there is little decent public transit.

Everyone wants the big house and the yard of suburbia, but it costs so much that they have to have the high pay job in the middle of the city.

VS

Mark100 · Joined: 05 Feb 2003 Posts: 441

Commute is quite feasible.

A lot of the guys i worked with at Aramco lived in Bahrain and commuted everyday.

45 mins in the morning if you leave around 6pm and the afternoon varies depending on when you leave but around and hour.

Wednesday is always bad.

Bear in mind if you want to do this you need to making a good salary.

You will have to pay a reasonable sum up front for accommodation ...probably three months and it isn't cheap for something reasonable in Bahrain and then there are the commute costs with a good car and petrol and the tolls. Then of course the actual living costs in Bahrain are a fair bit more. Probably better to do your grocery shopping in Saudi.

I didn't do it because it was easier to go across on the weekends when i needed to but if you have a good salary quite doable.

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

Some employers in Saudi Arabia require you to live here. Mine certainly does. And no way on the salary I get could I afford to commute - even if I was crazy enough to choose this stressful way of life.

Stephen Jones · Joined: 21 Feb 2003 Posts: 4124

What's stopping you going to sleep in Bahrain every night is the cost and hassle, not any university regulation.

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

Can I express the heretical opiniuonj that Bahrain is not actually a very nice place ? I PREFER my 50sq meter studio apartment in KSA !