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The Fifth Column
Joined: 11 Jun 2014
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Location: His habitude with lexical items protrudes not unlike a damaged pollex!!!
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| Wow! The wit on this thread is flying as thick as...as... |
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scot47
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3000 Sterling is okay - if you are getting free accommodation and ticketing and health insurance. Not so great if you have dependants who need to be sent to school.
This does not apply to Parrots who either have no parrotlings or kick them out of the nest at an early age,. |
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LPKSA
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| Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2014 5:44 pm Post subject: |
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| CANDLES wrote: |
Is £3000 a month tax free, in my hand, a bad salary?  |
With an Iqama? Because if not, I am pretty sure that would mean they can let you go at any minute. |
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The Fifth Column
Joined: 11 Jun 2014
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Location: His habitude with lexical items protrudes not unlike a damaged pollex!!!
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| Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2014 6:31 pm Post subject: |
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| LPKSA wrote: |
| CANDLES wrote: |
| Is £3000 a month tax free, in my hand, a bad salary? |
With an Iqama? Because if not, I am pretty sure that would mean they can let you go at any minute. |
Unless KSA has passed some kind of omnibus worker protection law...which is HAS NOT, an iqama has nothing to do with it.
I worked with many an inmate, iqama firmly in hand, then plucked, whom they had on out-going flights within 24 hours... |
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CANDLES
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In which case more trouble than worth it!  |
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PC Parrot
Joined: 11 Dec 2009
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Location: Moral Police Station
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| scot47 wrote: |
This does not apply to Parrots who either have no parrotlings or kick them out of the nest at an early age,. |
Don't worry you old Butey. There will be another referendum one day. |
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jaffa
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| coder wrote: |
| One doesn't get a PhD in order to teach at a Preparatory Year level. |
Teacher: (5 mins into lesson) .... so I would like to incorporate Harmer's theory of dialectical realism in the classroom vis a vis the direct approach of Aquitaine's linguistic diadectical reasoning theory into our lesson. OK, lads?
Student: Go break time, teacher?
3000GBP = 18,000SAR = Great salary, especially if single. I've never come across a job here where an employee has to pay for housing. The average salary for a male Saudi is 4,500SAR and there are unknown stacks of them on the dole/welfare. |
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plumpy nut
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| . But seriously, how much do you think you're worth? |
It depends upon if you're talking concrete terms regarding Saudi Arabia or True Value.  |
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fledex
Joined: 05 Jun 2011
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My formula for deciding whether to accept a job in Saudi:
Amount I'm able to save per month in Saudi - Amount I can save per month elsewhere - the value of my happiness > 0
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KSA - X - H > 0
Then take the job.
In other words, don't go to KSA for any other reason than a good income. Even the chance to visit Mecca and Medina are not worth the misery. |
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CANDLES
Joined: 01 Nov 2011
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| Oh You Humbug You! |
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bigdurian
Joined: 05 Feb 2014
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Location: Flashing my lights right behind you!
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| Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2014 7:21 pm Post subject: |
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| I like it here. Lot of freetime, no paperwork really, good social life, save a lot of money. What is there not to like? |
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sicklyman
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| The Fifth Column wrote: |
| I worked with many an inmate, iqama firmly in hand, then plucked, whom they had on out-going flights within 24 hours... |
... even those contracted to Aramco... |
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fledex
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| bigdurian wrote: |
| I like it here. . . . good social life,. . . What is there not to like? |
 Am I in the right forum? |
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plumpy nut
Joined: 12 Mar 2011
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| Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2014 6:51 am Post subject: |
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| bigdurian wrote: |
| What is there not to like? |
Regarding your question, there are many whole lists on the forum.
Now the question what is their to like? Imagine a giant water balloon coming down towards the ground. Its on a different planet with not very much gravity, so it moves slowly. It has a very thin skin. |
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