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ntropy

Joined: 11 Oct 2003 Posts: 671 Location: ghurba
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Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2010 3:32 pm Post subject: Basra, Iraq |
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How is the security situation in this area of Iraq? Anyone currently on site able to comment? |
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veiledsentiments

Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA
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Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2010 3:55 pm Post subject: |
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I don't know anyone there at the moment... but I am curious, have you run into job openings there?
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scot47

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Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2010 9:40 am Post subject: |
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There are jobs in Iraq. I know one teacher currently in Takrit, which was the home base of You Know Who.
Loads or money. Free small-arms training before deployment. |
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Steinmann

Joined: 17 Mar 2009 Posts: 255 Location: In the frozen north
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Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2010 9:50 am Post subject: |
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scot47 wrote: |
There are jobs in Iraq. I know one teacher currently in Takrit, which was the home base of You Know Who.
Loads or money. Free small-arms training before deployment. |
Could be cool. |
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scot47

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Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2010 10:00 am Post subject: |
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Right. Sign up to be with the other mercenaries in the forces of occupation. |
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Steinmann

Joined: 17 Mar 2009 Posts: 255 Location: In the frozen north
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Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2010 10:08 am Post subject: |
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scot47 wrote: |
Right. Sign up to be with the other mercenaries in the forces of occupation. |
As an English teacher? |
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johnslat

Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 13859 Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
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Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2010 1:07 pm Post subject: |
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Dear scot47,
"Right. Sign up to be with the other mercenaries in the forces of occupation."
Have Gun, Will Travel.
Aw, come on - how many times have YOU wished you had an M-16 (or the like) in the classroom?
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veiledsentiments

Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA
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Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2010 3:08 pm Post subject: |
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Not another gun thread boys!! One was way more than enough...
There have long been jobs up in Kurdistan, and there are military related EFL teaching jobs at some of the bases and also with the embassy in Baghdad. But I hadn't seen or heard of anything in Basra.
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johnslat

Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 13859 Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
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Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2010 3:31 pm Post subject: |
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veiledsentiments

Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA
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Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2010 4:44 pm Post subject: |
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Just the thought of "military" combined with "middle east" makes this sort of mess seem inevitable, doesn't it?
Great salary and benefits... should be able to save darn near 100% of that after taxes - since it exceeds the limit that the majority of us have never neared.
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ntropy

Joined: 11 Oct 2003 Posts: 671 Location: ghurba
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Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2010 3:42 am Post subject: |
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Thanks, all, for the comments. I had been hoping for some on-the-ground intel regarding security and the general situation regarding safety, but I guess not too many people are there at present. |
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veiledsentiments

Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA
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Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2010 4:30 am Post subject: |
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Way back at the top of all this I asked if there were jobs being advertised for Basra... are there?
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ntropy

Joined: 11 Oct 2003 Posts: 671 Location: ghurba
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Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2010 5:22 am Post subject: |
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Nope. |
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babur
Joined: 10 Aug 2010 Posts: 178 Location: Dammam, Saudi Arabia
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Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2010 7:16 am Post subject: ESL in Iraq |
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There are many English Language instructors in Iraq. The jobs were never advertised. Most teachers are former military instructors who retired after 20 years and did a crash TEFL course. Apart from the notorious DLI window-dressing program, the majority are Arabic speakers.
The few teachers with no military background are all hardened Middle Easterners. I did skype interviews for EL program contractors. My instructions were to let the candidates wait for the interviewer to fill them in on the security situation. If the candidate asked first, they'd failed. Ladies and gentlemen, this is IRAQ. Contractors expect people to know what they're letting themselves in for. One candidate asked if Basra was in the north. Just google a couple of blogs about the place instead of sitting in front of the camera like a frightened kitten.
PS. I don't work for EasyBELL. |
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Cleopatra

Joined: 28 Jun 2003 Posts: 3657 Location: Tuamago Archipelago
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Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2010 7:27 am Post subject: |
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The few teachers with no military background are all hardened Middle Easterners. |
What is a 'hardened Middle Easterner'? |
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