shakh your bootie

Whoah, is it really that bad?????

I mean, don't you guys kind of make your own social life & have outrageous parties and stuff????

JJJ75

Lady Lou - what is QL?? some internet thing? sorry I am a complete novice.

Job in question is working in recruitment (my background), money not that good, as they said they were only really looking locally so then can only offer me local terms, having said that I am not a burden to them in terms of healthcare, housing etc. so I should get a bit more on that basis.

Lady Lou, do you work, and if not how do you fill your time?

Thanks

JJJ

shakh your bootie

JJ - what kind of experience do you have? I know someone who is looking for soft skills trainers in Qatar (stuff like presentation skills, interpersonal, conflict management, communications). The hours are v flexible & the money's pretty good...

JJJ75

Lady Lou

my background is mainly recruitment, both in-house and agency.

However, I have done some training - mainly interview skills training, about techniques and legislation, do's and don'ts etc.

BTW do you know why when I log out and check the forum, I cannot see my thread, have I posted it in a restrictive area where only a few people can see it?

thanks

JJJ75

Apologies Shakh your Bootie, I thought Lady Lou posted the last response,

see told you I was a novice!!!

shakh your bootie

You've posted it in the "Sandpit" area - which is for off-topic chit-chat and monkeying around...

You can ask a mod to move your thread to the main Middle East section.

I'll send you a PM with the details of the company that's looking for trainers.

Alexa

Sorry, do not know anything about working hours in recruitment,and I am not working now. Was working for a while, the pay was not worth my time or losing my sanity.
I have become a "bored" housewife with hobbies and a cyberspace life....
No, there are no "outrageous" parties I know of here...if you find some, have mercy and let me know!
QL is www.qatarliving.com

JJJ75

Shakh

I have looked at contacting a moderator, but cannot find how to do it. Any ideas?

thanks for your responses btw, makes a difference to know there are other people who care and interested

shakh your bootie

You can send a PM to Eeyore, he's our moderator.... but people will reply to your thread even if it's in the sandpit. You just might find that it's more prone to straying off-topic and into banter here.....

JJJ75

SYB

thanks for that info, you have been a real help.

I once went to AD about 10 years ago, has it changed much?

JJJ75

Lady Lou

perhaps we can liven things up in old Doha, must be something to do to take the edge off the boredom!!!

shakh your bootie

Ah, I've only been here 3 years but I would imagine that it has changed - the pace of change has picked up dramatically over the last year or so, tho... in a few years time it might rival Dubai for quality of life.

Good luck with your move - keep posting (especially if you end up as a bored housewife with only cyber-buddies for company!!!)

Alexa

That is what you say NOW....just you wait until you have been in the land of the hopeless for a while....
We all came here with a certain amount of hope and enthusiasm...give it 3 weeks and it will all go pppfffffttttt.......ma'assalama (good bye) never to be seen again.
No, seriously, it takes about 3 weeks to have seen and done it all, and it is not too entertaining in the first place, and bloody expensive at that.
The thing here is to make money and then get out.

JJJ75

Lady Lou

I can appreciate where you are coming from, my hubby was in Qatar over 10 years ago and the horror stories. He lived in a villa with another guy who was a middle east veteran (he escaped to Qatar after being taken to the cleaners by his Ex-wife, and she then won a substantial sum on the pools after they were divorced)!!

He would regularly be found on the floor in the kitchen watching the washing go round and round in the machine. He then left to open a turtle farm in Thailand and we later found out he was done in!!

However, my hubbie does assure me that it is a different place today, granted it is not like the UK, but there are much more things to do.

Here's hoping!!!

JJJ75

MataHari

and it's not like you have a choice in the matter...