thinking about a new job...
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Topic: thinking about a new job...
Posted By: merc
Subject: thinking about a new job...
Date Posted: 18 April 2012 at 9:03pm
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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... ------------- saving the world, one warship at a time. |
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Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 18 April 2012 at 9:31pm
| How long would it last for? Until you're not needed there anymore? |
Posted By: merc
Date Posted: 18 April 2012 at 9:34pm
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1 year contract. im sure i could stay longer if i wanted. ------------- saving the world, one warship at a time. |
Posted By: usafpilot07
Date Posted: 18 April 2012 at 10:51pm
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You like the idea of Afghan more than Iraq? What? ------------- Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo |
Posted By: mbro
Date Posted: 19 April 2012 at 3:40am
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I'd do it. It'll be long, boring and isolated but everyone needs a story to tell when they're older. ------------- 
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Posted By: Kingtiger
Date Posted: 19 April 2012 at 3:48am
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usafpilot07 wrote:Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 19 April 2012 at 5:51am
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. |
Posted By: oldpbnoob
Date Posted: 19 April 2012 at 12:11pm
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You're young and single... go for it. When I think back on a couple of opportunities that I had to live and work overseas I regret not doing it nearly every single time. You never know where the opportunity will lead either unless you take it. ------------- "When I grow up I want to marry a rich man and live in a condor next to the beach" -- My 7yr old daughter. |
Posted By: Ceesman762
Date Posted: 19 April 2012 at 12:13pm
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Do it.
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Posted By: FreeEnterprise
Date Posted: 19 April 2012 at 12:19pm
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If you are going to regret it later, then do it now. I have always looked at decisions by the "will I regret NOT doing this?"... You don't want to look back and say "I wish I had ______". Grab life by the horns and go for it. ------------- They tremble at my name... 
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Posted By: evillepaintball
Date Posted: 19 April 2012 at 12:51pm
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Do it. I wish I could make it over there. ------------- 
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Posted By: deadeye007
Date Posted: 19 April 2012 at 2:18pm
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Drink all the beer you can before you go ------------- Face it guys, common sense is a form of wealth and we're surrounded by poverty.-Strato |
Posted By: scotchyscotch
Date Posted: 19 April 2012 at 2:59pm
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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. He's now working as a relatively high up comms man for some oil company so it must be relatively safe if he's willing to give up the security of permanently being on base. And he has more cash than you can shake a big jaggy pimping stick at. Which annoys me as I started working for his company as motor electrician/ communications engineer when I was younger but went and done the "sensible thing" and went back to school. Now I would give my left bollock to go and start making some cash like that.
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Posted By: sinisterNorth
Date Posted: 19 April 2012 at 11:37pm
This. ------------- Pumpker'd; (V.) When a pump player runs up and shoots you at point blank range because you thought 20bps made you good. |
Posted By: JohnnyCanuck
Date Posted: 20 April 2012 at 12:07am
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Posted By: Snipa69
Date Posted: 20 April 2012 at 1:29am
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Do it. But take Iraq over Afghanistan. I've been to both and while I was able to utilize my skill set more in Afghanistan, they gave me a gun and bombs to do it with. The reality about being shot at in Afghanistan is that 90% it's indirect but still dangerous and 10% of the time you might actually be close enough to use your welding torch to burn a hole in their shorts. The opposite held true for me but our bases are still pretty well protected there and it depends how much time you will spend, if any, outside the wire. ------------- http://imageshack.us - [IMG - http://img456.imageshack.us/img456/857/sig9ac6cs1mj.jpg - |
Posted By: evillepaintball
Date Posted: 20 April 2012 at 12:43pm
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Also, we aren't burning books and murdering families in Iraq. -------------
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Posted By: impulse418
Date Posted: 20 April 2012 at 1:05pm
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Posted By: evillepaintball
Date Posted: 20 April 2012 at 1:08pm
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It's the same thing. -------------
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Posted By: Ceesman762
Date Posted: 20 April 2012 at 1:41pm
Every time you post I hear Brock Sampson's voice..... ------------- Innocence proves nothing FUAC!!!!! |