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Forum: New Zealand
Jan 21st 2010, 8:12 am
Replies: 5
Views: 755
Posted By technocracy

Re: Looking for Advice - please feel free to put in your 2p worth!

Cheers folks for the posts (and pm's) - however after much consideration and mulling things over and reading numerous sites, I am pretty much in the conclusion that the Singapore opportunity will be...
Forum: Singapore
Jan 21st 2010, 7:22 am
Replies: 34
Views: 12,632
Posted By technocracy

Re: Moving to Singapore 2

Interesting this thread has popped up now.

I am just waiting for the delivery of my contract to move me and the family over to Singapore around the beginning of March. Well also I've being...
Forum: New Zealand
Jan 21st 2010, 2:48 am
Replies: 5
Views: 755
Posted By technocracy

Looking for Advice - please feel free to put in your 2p worth!

First off I guess I am in what many people would consider an enviable position - I left the UK over 3 years ago already and currently live in Laos in SE Asia. However with my son fast approaching 2...
Forum: Australia
Jan 1st 2010, 1:01 am
Replies: 33
Views: 2,775
Posted By technocracy

Re: Average Internet speeds

They aren't accurate in the slightest. They'll give you a general idea but there is so many factors that come into play such as the load of the testing server, congestions on links etc etc.

The...
Forum: Australia
Dec 31st 2009, 10:05 am
Replies: 33
Views: 2,775
Posted By technocracy

Re: Average Internet speeds

Also I would highly expect that those are the average speeds from the house to the termination point. Rather than across the state wide network let alone the International peering bandwidth.

In...
Forum: Australia
Dec 31st 2009, 12:41 am
Replies: 30
Views: 3,654
Posted By technocracy

Re: permanent visa granted, I'm looking for a job and I keep receiving negative respo

So you got you Residency Visa last month and you don't intend on making a visit until May - is this within activation period of the visa?

As for looking for IT work in Oz - unfortunately the...
Forum: Far East and Asia
Dec 30th 2009, 3:37 am
Replies: 2
Views: 1,205
Posted By technocracy

Re: Working in the events industry in Asia?

The easiest way into any job in SE Asia is in general to know somebody who can put in a good word for you or land a small piece of work which allows you to impress enough for them to want give you...
Forum: Middle East
Dec 28th 2009, 4:08 pm
Replies: 22
Views: 2,710
Posted By technocracy

Re: Things not to do in SYRIA!

Funny I read this kind of things in guide books about this part of the world (SE Asia) and the reality is it's plain common sense. Then for the most part people will just ignore the gormless...
Forum: Middle East
Dec 28th 2009, 4:04 pm
Replies: 21
Views: 1,556
Posted By technocracy

Re: Death and Taxes... death first please!

TBF - *****'em. If you are leaving the UK shores for good - leave and fill out the form to tell them you are no longer domiciled or part of the UK tax system (I forget the form number). They won't...
Forum: Middle East
Dec 28th 2009, 1:40 am
Replies: 38
Views: 92,303
Posted By technocracy

Re: Some Compound Prices As Promised

Funny you should say that - I've told them to 'do one'.

They started the whole conversation on the package upfront and when I turned around and said the only way I'll take the role is if you...
Forum: Middle East
Dec 11th 2009, 12:04 pm
Replies: 9
Views: 1,450
Posted By technocracy

Re: IT Job offer UAE But no idea if Fair or Foul

PM'd as requested. :)
Forum: Middle East
Dec 11th 2009, 11:44 am
Replies: 38
Views: 92,303
Posted By technocracy

Re: Some Compound Prices As Promised

Thanks all for the additional input.

I've pretty much told them the same as has been mentioned on here - as the offer stands if I was single I'd probably take it however having my family my wife...
Forum: Middle East
Dec 10th 2009, 6:41 am
Replies: 9
Views: 1,450
Posted By technocracy

Re: IT Job offer UAE But no idea if Fair or Foul

:lol:

Not quite. But he didn't seem to understand my CV and my skills one iota! It kind of stop him dead in his tracks when I told him my usual rates! :lol: Let just say we were oceans apart!
...
Forum: Middle East
Dec 10th 2009, 12:47 am
Replies: 38
Views: 92,303
Posted By technocracy

Re: Some Compound Prices As Promised

Many thanks for this - I've been looking around trying to find these kinds of prices as I've recently been made an offer and my thoughts on the housing money was it just ain't enough (approx SR95k)...
Forum: Middle East
Dec 10th 2009, 12:30 am
Replies: 9
Views: 1,450
Posted By technocracy

Re: IT Job offer UAE But no idea if Fair or Foul

I assume this is the US government project. I had a phone call the other day from a hapless recruiter who didn't really have a clue about the role he was recruiting for - he'd just found my CV on a...
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