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Maybe a dumb question but looking on the various sites for nursing/midwife jobs the monthly salaries are in the region of 2000Dhs surely no one works for that, are these salaries shown plus allowances.
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There are many who travel thousands of miles to the Gulf to work for such salaries, from countries where that works out to a princely sum.
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might be a pricey sum to some backward countries, shame on the arabs for exploiting them, but the cost of living is still horendous, no matter how frugal how on earth do they live.
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Lady of leisure I will be then
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I wouldn't lose sleep over it. The guy who does my cleaning has just bought a farm 'back home' . I'm happy to have helped him achieve this dream.
AED 20000 is more than a nurse earns in outer London. So unless that is considered a backward country...
Shame on the arabs? I assume from your outrage that you want no part of this exploitative system....?
Or is it OK for you to benefit from low-cost goods and services, but not other people?
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room sharing in cheap parts of town: my studio (2000/month) could be shared by 4 men in some parts of Sharjah.
taking buses to work: fare = 1.50 dhs (where available: no buses within Sharjah for example, except for buses into Bur Dubai - fare is 5.00)
working long hours: including Fridays, judging by the construction work outside my flat
not spending much on entertainment and eating cheaply: I sometimes have lunch for 4.00 dhs, more often splurge for 7.50! (cf. 30 for a pizza and fruit milkshake at an upmarket Sharjah bakery, or 149 for a 5* hotel buffet on SZR Dubai)
taking buses to work: fare = 1.50 dhs (where available: no buses within Sharjah for example, except for buses into Bur Dubai - fare is 5.00)
working long hours: including Fridays, judging by the construction work outside my flat
not spending much on entertainment and eating cheaply: I sometimes have lunch for 4.00 dhs, more often splurge for 7.50! (cf. 30 for a pizza and fruit milkshake at an upmarket Sharjah bakery, or 149 for a 5* hotel buffet on SZR Dubai)
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Re: wages
room sharing in cheap parts of town: my studio (2000/month) could be shared by 4 men in some parts of Sharjah.
taking buses to work: fare = 1.50 dhs (where available: no buses within Sharjah for example, except for buses into Bur Dubai - fare is 5.00)
working long hours: including Fridays, judging by the construction work outside my flat
not spending much on entertainment and eating cheaply: I sometimes have lunch for 4.00 dhs, more often splurge for 7.50! (cf. 30 for a pizza and fruit milkshake at an upmarket Sharjah bakery, or 149 for a 5* hotel buffet on SZR Dubai)
taking buses to work: fare = 1.50 dhs (where available: no buses within Sharjah for example, except for buses into Bur Dubai - fare is 5.00)
working long hours: including Fridays, judging by the construction work outside my flat
not spending much on entertainment and eating cheaply: I sometimes have lunch for 4.00 dhs, more often splurge for 7.50! (cf. 30 for a pizza and fruit milkshake at an upmarket Sharjah bakery, or 149 for a 5* hotel buffet on SZR Dubai)
Shared low cost apartments and cheap eateries are all here if you look.
Dubai presents a first world face to the world; but it is based on developing world standards and wages - particularly so in my sector, construction.
As some sort of defence, workers from the developing countries are getting a bigger mark up in their earnings, compared with the possibilities at home, than western expats are.
I think very few come here with unrealistic expectations given the well worn footpath to the Gulf over the decades.
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Dubai presents a first world face to the world; but it is based on developing world standards and wages - particularly so in my sector, construction.
As some sort of defence, workers from the developing countries are getting a bigger mark up in their earnings, compared with the possibilities at home, than western expats are.
On the other hand isn't it the case that nowadays with the weak dollar and strong rupee, peso, whatever, that the draw of higher earnings isn't so great? When this finally hits the construction industry, who will finish all the new projects...?
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On the other hand isn't it the case that nowadays with the weak dollar and strong rupee, peso, whatever, that the draw of higher earnings isn't so great? When this finally hits the construction industry, who will finish all the new projects...?
I think yor figures in the earlier post were interesting, - say you earn Dh 2,000/Mo.
Ball park: Shared accomm at Dh 500/Mo; food at Dh 500/Mo - send home Dh 1000/Mo. That's approx USD 300 - ie USD 10/day; and much of the world subsists on USD 2/day or less - so it is a good mark up. I'm just observing here, not approving by any means.
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In deed; also, as India begins to develop, there is a real worry for this region than many people in the manual jobs will stay at home.
I think yor figures in the earlier post were interesting, - say you earn Dh 2,000/Mo.
Ball park: Shared accomm at Dh 500/Mo; food at Dh 500/Mo - send home Dh 1000/Mo. That's approx USD 300 - ie USD 10/day; and much of the world subsists on USD 2/day or less - so it is a good mark up. I'm just observing here, not approving by any means.
I think yor figures in the earlier post were interesting, - say you earn Dh 2,000/Mo.
Ball park: Shared accomm at Dh 500/Mo; food at Dh 500/Mo - send home Dh 1000/Mo. That's approx USD 300 - ie USD 10/day; and much of the world subsists on USD 2/day or less - so it is a good mark up. I'm just observing here, not approving by any means.
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Will just have to get used to being a kept women, not getting out of bed for those salaries to mop up puke and shit, there is enough paid in insurances to give nurses a reasonable wage not even a good one and 2000dhs is nowere near reasonable, you pay peanuts you get monkeys is the saying that comes to mind.