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[michiaki]

This is not exactly a new topic but I need to ask. I have been offered a contract position with Aramco through an agency as a GC-11 ITC Advanced English teacher? The pay is $7000 a month. Is this a good offer?

[csanaya]

What are your qualifications and job experience?

[michiaki]

I have nine years teaching ESL and EAP and an M.Ed. TESL.

[Never Ceased To Be Amazed]

Really? Are you kidding me? I googled this. I shall say no more unless provoked!

http://www.eslteachersboard.com/cgi-bin/intl/index.pl?page=4;read=15816

Anyone with experience...hold on tight to yer sides!

NCTBA

P.s.- "Kingdom" ends with an " M"!

[michiaki]

hmmm... I am not sure to say. My offer does not include living expenses. They will pay for the visa and flight tickets. Does the salary in the posting you googled include accommodations? If it does then my offer is perhaps average, if it doesn't then I seem to have received a very good offer.

[markcmc]

[trapezius]

^^ Either way it is a very high offer. SR. 26,250 a month is phenomenal, a figure high enough to be almost always reserved for non-teaching Westerners in Saudi Arabia. (actually, at the bottom of the scale for non-teaching Westerners, but at the very top for teaching Westerners)

[csanaya]

Does anyone know how much housing runs in Saudi? Where are you going to be living?

[michiaki]

That's a good question. I will be working at the Aramco complex in Damman. I don't know anything about accommodations, cost or style.

[Never Ceased To Be Amazed]

[Never Ceased To Be Amazed]

[scot47]

Watch out for scams. If you have to provide your own accommodation. local transport and tickets, US$7,000 is not so much.

[johnslat]

Dear NCTBA,

Moses was a mere babe of 120 when he died:

Moses was 120 years old when he died - Deuternomy 34:7

http://www.biblebrowser.com/deuteronomy/34-7.htm

Now, Methuselah -

"Methuselah or Metush�lach (Hebrew: מְתוּשֶׁלַח / מְתוּשָׁלַח, Modern Mətu��laḥ / Mətu��laḥ Tiberian Məṯ���laḥ / Məṯ��ālaḥ ; "Man of the dart/spear", or alternatively "when he dies/died, it shall be sent/has been sent") is the oldest person whose age is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, given as 969 years."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methuselah

Regards,
Old John
Just imagine if he'd been getting Social Security.

[007]

Well, I think our poster, Simpson, confused Noah with Moses!
Noah died at the age of 950, Moses died at the age of 120, and Simpson will die at the age between 77.5 and 80 [this according to the statistics of Uncle Sam's CIA Worl Facebook 2008! ] (Inshallah).

[Never Ceased To Be Amazed]

Er...um...700 dog (forgiveness asked for using that term here!) years?

NCTBA (Yeah, Yahya, go ahead and google how many dog year Moses wuz when he died )