Site Search:
 
Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today!
Teach English Abroad and Get Paid to see the World!
Job Discussion Forums Forum Index Job Discussion Forums
"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!"
 
 FAQFAQ   SearchSearch   MemberlistMemberlist   UsergroupsUsergroups   RegisterRegister 
 ProfileProfile   Log in to check your private messagesLog in to check your private messages   Log inLog in 

University Calendar 2010-2011
Goto page Previous  1, 2
 
Post new topic   Reply to topic    Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Saudi Arabia
View previous topic :: View next topic  
Author Message
kazazt



Joined: 15 Feb 2010
Posts: 164
PostPosted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 7:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Isnt money freedome?
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
scot47



Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Posts: 15343
PostPosted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 8:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
"Freedom is a glorious thing" but does not, I think mean the worship of Mammon ! If you become a slave to the God of Money you are lost - irrevocably, some would say.

Ask yourself, "How much is enough". You will find that there is never enough and that you always want more. I saw an example last month - a friend aged 60, reluctant to leave Aramco after 28 years service becasue he really "needed" another million greenbacks. Sad !
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
kazazt



Joined: 15 Feb 2010
Posts: 164
PostPosted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 9:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I remember a teacher living on RANCO compound in Riyadh saying he went to a masallamah party for an old boy who had spent something bizarre like 35 years in Saudi and when asked what he was going to do back in UK, he was planning to live with his sister in Bognor Regis. The teacher telling the story told him he should go to Thailand and marry an 18 year old girl.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Sheikh N Bake



Joined: 26 Apr 2007
Posts: 1307
Location: Dis ting of ours
PostPosted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 12:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
scot47 wrote:
"Freedom is a glorious thing" but does not, I think mean the worship of Mammon ! If you become a slave to the God of Money you are lost - irrevocably, some would say.

Ask yourself, "How much is enough". You will find that there is never enough and that you always want more. I saw an example last month - a friend aged 60, reluctant to leave Aramco after 28 years service becasue he really "needed" another million greenbacks. Sad !


Sad indeed. Is it worth spending your entire life in the tragic kingdom? Can you take it with you when you have a heart attack and say ciao, bella in Jubail or wherever TF?

Presumably your friend had his first million. My conservative index-based mutual funds have gone up 24% in the past 12 months. Therefore a million in there would return $240,000 without touching the principal. Some retirement huh? And I'd want to keep working in Saudi because....?
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
johnslat



Joined: 21 Jan 2003
Posts: 13859
Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
PostPosted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 1:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Dear kazazt,

"Isnt money freedome?"

It can be - or it can be slavery. Piling up money can become an obsession, and, as scot57 wrote, for these people, there's no such thing as "enough money."

So, it's a case of who's the master: the money or you.

We say that "Time is Money," but it's can be true the other way around: "Money is Time;" cash can buy you time, time to do the things you really want to do.

Regards,
John
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
kazazt



Joined: 15 Feb 2010
Posts: 164
PostPosted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 1:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Just as homemade wine can be a good slave but a poor master.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
johnslat



Joined: 21 Jan 2003
Posts: 13859
Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
PostPosted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 3:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Dear kazazt,

The stuff (I hesitate to call it "wine" for fear of libel) I used to make wasn't even a good slave. However, I was its slave for quite a while, and it was a very hard master.

Hope that doesn't sound like I'm whining. Smile

Regards,
John
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Stephen Jones



Joined: 21 Feb 2003
Posts: 4124
PostPosted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 10:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Plenty of people who earned a load in Saudi found they lost most of it when they divorced.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
kazazt



Joined: 15 Feb 2010
Posts: 164
PostPosted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 11:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Like Scot
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
johnslat



Joined: 21 Jan 2003
Posts: 13859
Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
PostPosted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 11:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Unlike John. Admittedly, I was dumb enough to make two bad marriages, but I was also smart enough to get married in a "No Fault" divorce state: Florida.

Regards,
John
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
kazazt



Joined: 15 Feb 2010
Posts: 164
PostPosted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 12:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
you marry thais or philipinos
Back to top