Quote: (12-28-2011 09:21 AM)scotian Wrote:
Viralate and anyone else who works abroad in the resource sectors, I'd like to pick your brains for a minute, of all those exotic locales you've worked in (remote Canada, damn where were you, Labrador, Flin Flon, NWT?? brrrr), what place did you like working the most?
Which place had the best combination of good money, safe, good locals to work with , decent camp accommodation, food, etc.
I'm asking because the chance to work abroad will definitely come up for me (again) in the future and I'd like to do it. However, I've been told by a few people who've done so that its not all its cracked up to be.
one old guy I met on a job site, who had worked all over the world in his 40 year career, told me something like this "listen kid, a job site is a job site, its doesn't matter if you're in Kuwait, Brazil Canada or Algeria; you wake up, go to work, go to bed and do the same thing everyday until you're rotation is up then you go home. You make good money here in Fort Mac, its safe, and you can take lots of leave, make your money here then spend it abroad traveling".
Its makes sense to me and thats basically what I"m doing, what are your guys' thoughts?
That Old Guy was correct..heed his words.
My Dad did the expat construction tour for about a decade too long..into his 60's.
Although ,my mother enjoyed going to some of the places,Turkey,Iran in the 70's before the Islamic takeover,...most of the places were remote in hell holes either service wise or culturally,Nigeria,Saudi,Tanzania,Korea.
After a nice cushty posting in France my Dad decided on another posting to the Middle East Kuwait and Saudi.
That was the straw that broke the camels back and my ma quit.
It's a lifestyle that's a novelty for a while, but if you're married or in LTR you better choose decent places to work ,or don't do it for more than a few years...otherwise you'll be divorced before you know it.
I'm not sure how my ma put up with being stuck indoors in some of those hellholes everyday!