Saudi Amarco often advertises (hell, CONSTANTLY advertises) jobs for Relay Technicians, which is right up my alley. I've heard that the salary is quite good (but that could be BS too) but that the work hours are quite long and that the Saudis only let foreigners work there for a few years, tops.
That and Scoobie might (would) kill me. If I knew more facts about the job, etc., who knows? Making enough to retire (house paid, no bills, money set aside) before I'm 55 would be nice.
We lived in Jeddah for two years, which was the maximum at that time, however we became friendly with several members of the Royal Family, and were offered a permanent residence visa (which is nearly unheard of for westerners).
I can tell some hilarius stories about experiences/occurrences during our stay.......I posted the "leaking piano" story years ago over at CU, and cracked everyone up.......which was only one of many......it had its good points.
We passed on the permanent visa......the company that I worked for was a very large one, and Saudi was considered "hardship duty", which meant that the pay was not only fabulous, but entirely tax-free, and the company provided plush housing, frequent paid (including transportation and hotels) R & R trips out of the country (we usually went to Israel, Lebanon, Italy or Greece)......plus our kids were educated free in diplomatic corps schools.....financially it was very good for us, but despite the fact that it was very luxurious, living in a "compound" behind 20 foot walls, was still (at least for the wives) like being in prison......
If we had it to do over, with hindsight being 20-20, we'd probably do it again.......if for no other reason than we made some friends that are Saudis, which we keep in touch with, as well as acquaintances throughout the Middle East which gives us a lot of insight into what is going on over there, and a different view of world affairs.......it was definitely a learning experience.......
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