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JT · Joined: 26 Jun 2004 Posts: 3 Location: USA

Hi,

I received an offer from HCT-DMC to teach Engineering. I have never been to Dubai. I would welcome feedback that you may have on HCT
offer. I have a master in Electrical and Computer Engineering with
10 years of pratical industry experience and same amount of yeras
as a part-time faculty in the USA.

Salary: Dhs. 13,700, Childern schooling paid up to Dhs. 80,000 per year, annual airline ticket, Free accomedation, Furniture allowance,
end of service payment (1month's salary per year of service) and
repatriation allowance of Dhs. 5000 and 2 months paid vacation. We are a family of four (wife and 2 kids) form the USA. Also what
kind of accomedation HCT is providing for a family of four and can
you save for the future ??

Again any feedback is greatly apprecited.

Best Regards

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

Hi JT,

I answered this in the other thread you posted it on. Check over there.

VS

Klem · Joined: 11 Oct 2004 Posts: 16

JT,

That's the exact same salary and condition I got at SMC last year, with exactly the same teaching experience and qualifications.

Initial offer was lower but I negotiated up to 13,700

You can save if you stay reasonable in your expenditure. Living in ME gives people a warped sense of a pseudo jetset lifestyle. Do you really need the expense of a maid when where you came from you coped without one? Do you really need a more expensive car? Watch out for holidays where people tend to spend up trying to forget the oppressive regime they work for and the stifling culture live in. Don't ,ake the mistake of trying to compete with the locals with their ostentatious displays of wealth beyond anyhting you are used to. It is not a competition.

Klem