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[grahamb]

Don't know about EFL opportunities, but there's plenty of work for undertakers at the moment.

[scot47]

Mujahideen are recruiting all the time.

[grahamb]

Ah, but are they equal opportunity employers?

[grahamb]

Scot47 omitted other important points that ought to be considered before applying to join the Mujahideen.
Firstly, is it the parent company or a franchise? Franchises are notoriously bad employers. Any reputable employer should offer the following:
A tax-free salary, launderable in any country in the world.
60 days' annual leave, plus public holidays.
Three flights home each year.
Free accommodation (tent) and utilities (camp fire, etc).
Free medical and dental care.
Camels to and from your place of work.
Subsidised meals.
No more than 22.5 contact hours with the enemy a week, subject to service exigencies
Free language lessons.
Opportunities for professional development (one-to-one interrogation techniques, etc).
End-of-contract gratuity.
Sponsored visas for your family, Thai girlfriend and lesbian cat.
Would-be Mujahideen TEFLrs should note that particular conditions of employment apply. The dress code is strict: T-shirts and shorts are forbidden. Forms of address are equally formal. Hailing your commander with "Hey, dude!" is not acceptable, nor is open defiance or outright refusal to obey orders. Use of lexical chunks such as "Scr*w you mother****** are apt to cause offence.
Before applying, you should consider whether you are able to adapt to a rather austere existence involving long, irregular hours and unpaid travel time. Opportunities for leisure activities such as chilling out, hanging out, drug abuse and snowboarding are somewhat limited, as is contact with the opposite sex.
Good luck!

[Mark100]

Well insurgents in Iraq are killing anything that moves or worse still ambushing and taking you hostage and then beheading you.

They are not concerned with colour, race, nationality ....everybody is fair game.

75 k is a pittance for the risks that are involved in going to Iraq.

I do know some people there and they are getting 15-20k US a month.
I wouldn't go period.

[scot47]

Well what news on the ESL recruitments to Ayrak ?

[redafiya]

I can't believe this post -- the original poster seeking work in Iraq either must have a death wish, a perverse idea of what constitutes "adventure" or lastly -- no insult intended -- can't be that bright/attuned to reality.

When I was younger, we used to think that hanging around in a Thai jungle for a few months was "risky" and adventurous, or perhaps a trip into Laos or Burma ( these were more naive days of our lives ) -- but Iraq? A trip to Rangoon seems tame.....

Jesus....

[veiledsentiments]

Redafiya,

When I saw your name listed as the last poster on this thread my first thought was, OH NO... we have oversold the safety of the Middle East and now he is considering Iraq!!

If you ever hang around the Thorntree site, the topic of travel into Iraq is discussed a couple of times a month. There are always people that seem to have the idea that risk proves something to others or themselves...

VS

[web fishing]

OR you have those people who do anything for money, including selling their soul. OR do you think the reason may be a humanitarian one - most likely NOT!

[veiledsentiments]

I tend to be rather jaded about this kind of thing, but I suspect that there are people who are going in for humanitarian reasons. Like that young woman who died not long ago. She had been working in the country since the war began trying to help average people... for little or no pay.

My pessimism would tend to think that this would only be about 10% though. Most are in there to make a killing financially...

[web fishing]

[moonraven]

The US government is also there to make killings that are considerably more literal.

[stillnosheep]

Nice one cecil!

Let's all discuss the benefits and risks of working in Iran and stick to objective factors: the US occupation, the mujahadeen, instability, bombings, shootings, torture etc. But let's avoid politics!

[Cleopatra]

[moonraven]

For those of us who are students of history and culture, they are most definitely NOT the same.