thinking about a new job...

so im thinking about leaving my job welding cans that float to welding cans that roll for A LOT more money...

im looking at 235K tax free if i weld armored vehicles vs 43k taxed welding ships...

1) i have to quit my civil service job (I have some good qualifications so i think i would get hired back in)

2) i might get shot at (i figure working nights in the neighborhood i work in is just as bad, but over there i would have body armor and an armed escort...) {thinking Afghanistan, i dont really like the idea of Iraq}

3) i couldnt come back into the USA for 1 year (or uncle sam would rob me blind)

edit: i think if i spend less than 30 days inside the USA in the calender year everything i make is tax free...

Edited by merc - 18 April 2012 at 9:05pm

1 year contract. im sure i could stay longer if i wanted.

I'd do it. It'll be long, boring and isolated but everyone needs a story to tell when they're older.

Kingtiger wrote: usafpilot07 wrote: You like the idea of Afghan more than Iraq? What? this

Seconded. At least Iraq is somewhat calm (comparatively) to Afghanistan at the moment. March saw the lowest death toll since the war started (112 civies killed and no combat deaths for coalition forces) and there has only been 1 coalition death since the beginning of the year over there. Meanwhile, you can't even trust the people who are walking right next to you, wearing the uniform of your supposed allies, in Afghanistan. It's a scary place right now.

Do it. 

Do it.  I wish I could make it over there.

My best mates dad is in Iraq just now. He started off at camp Wolf(?) working on military gear (comm's in trucks n that) and although he said a lot of the time he was bored out his nut he keeps going back for 6 months at a time. The odd rocket from the locals didn't seem to bother him too much and he has photos on Saddam's chair in the old palace and junk which is pretty awesome in itself.

Also, we aren't burning books and murdering families in Iraq.

It's the same thing.