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[scot47]

US$7,500 is around SR29,000. Not many teaching for that in KSA unless they are with British Aerospace or American Defense Contractors.

[scot47]

I wonder if those considering jobs at the bottom end of the pay range have thought through medical cover, medical expenses and possible evacuation costs. Health and travel insurance could be hard to get when UK FCO has isseued advice not to travel to Libya !

If you are getting �10 an hour as an hourly-paid worker, how are you going to cover any medical expenses ?

There must be some desperate people out there !

[dragonpiwo]

I know several oil gigs in the KSA that pay that and more and there's one suicide contract here...ie not a rotation that does too

[teachr]

scot, I don't think I can PM you yet. But with just (non-English) degrees, Trinity Cert and one year experience I would have considered the jobs paying 1750/2000 a month because they would have allowed some saving and see a part of the world I'm interested in (all things considered). Was hoping others would have been scared off and I'd get an offer. But either they were oversubscribed or genuinely too good to be true because the dodgy ads have disappeared and no reply! So left with the �10p/h gig which I would not consider.

[dragonpiwo]

And if you are based in a big city and are not on rotation, you'll spend a tonne of money on food unless you eat chicken shoarmas every day. What will you do in the evenings with no bars, limited sports facilities and embassy warnings not to go out? Forget dating......

[dragonpiwo]

Some people have been offered short stints on big money with no rotation. It's undoable. Six months with no access to net/social life etc will drive people nuts....it's a real risk with mental health imho. In Libya, the longer you stay, the more 'set up' you get, so these new short contract types will arrive with nothing and be in for a real shock. Getting set up means buying a car, a sat package, a black market dongle, buying all the stuff for your house. Contract workers also tend to be put in temporary accommodation , which can be a shared ROOM. No-one would work here if the rotation was removed...not even the hardy Filipinos. Meanwhile the east teeters on the brink if you read The Libya Herald and world press.

[scot47]

Dragonpiwo, are you in Libya now ? Or Berlin, Bydgoszcz, Basra or Beirut ?

My contacts in Tripoli say it seems quiet there just now. Benghazi isa different story.

[dragonpiwo]

Not far from Benghazi Scott......on rotation.

[dragonpiwo]

Before anyone tells me it's safe...how is it that a German engineer working for ABB got shot between Ajdabya and Zuetina yesterday...it's near here. I don't care if it was a carjacking or they very after the driver and it was a feud...it's still NOT SAFE.

[dragonpiwo]

Then there was the expat woman, raped two weeks ago....not in the news but on Facebook.

[Bassington]

I've got a couple of friends in Tripoli right now. They're not getting brilliant wages, but they really love the place (for some reason), so they're willing to accept it.

[dragonpiwo]

Tripoli is calmer thyan the east but wtf.....there's nothing to see or do there. The wahes have been pitiful.....maybe they have another agenda. Just about everyone I know and have known over the years have never seen a place like it.

[scot47]

My contacts tell me Tripoli is okay - or at least an improvement on Essex and Middlesborough.

[PeterBar]

And my old Libyan friend in Tripoli tells me that she'd rather be in Essex, Middlesborough or ............France

[scot47]

I may go and check out the situation in Tripoli - like that TV serties "Undercover Boss".