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My former co is hiring for civilian work in afghan, 80% uplift in pay, 7-12's, o/t = 1.5x , 10% haz duty pay, No tax
Prolly clear $400k for a 1 yr stint Not sure the job scope., but it's not drving trucks or anything like that, engineering work. Opinions?
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Virtual Machine
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What do you normally do? What kind of engineering work? Most likely all you will be doing is base operations.
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Uh duh. Do it
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Z would probably pay for them to take you for a while
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This.
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Other than that it looks like a good deal
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He should be sticking with Schlumberger for a few years to get some seasoning under his belt. Schlumberger is a very large and reputable joint.
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I don't know much about engineering operations in Afghanistan, but I do know that civilian engineer contractors in Iraq generally stayed on the base and out of harm's way, unless they were directly involved with construction outside the wire.
My first instinct is just to say find out more info on exactly what to expect (with $400k being thrown at you... my guess is you will spend a lot of time outside the wire)... but definitely consider it. That's a very positive line of work to be in out there, you get to help a lot of people, and you work with a pretty broad range of contractors, civilian and military alike. But it will probably be pretty frustrating too. ![]()
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anyway, $40/hr x 1.8 = $72 (base) x 40hrs = $2880 O/T = 72 x 1.5 = $108/hr x 44 hrs = $4752 = 7632/ wk x 52 = $396864 + haz duty pay, not sure how thats factored in. ed |
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Let's blow up bridges so we can hire engineers at 400k a year to design new ones!
Typical Government at work. lol
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