What if you had the chance of working in Iraq / Astan ??

bigredshark · 24 Aug 2006 at 23:12

Stolly said:
Its not your run of the mill 802.1x stuff

fair enough, i've done cisco thin AP wireless networks with radius integration, but never anything more complex and my side was the networking and authentication

Stolly · 24 Aug 2006 at 23:13

Gilly said:
Yeah, but thats not what I'd be doing, just for the same company.

The last 2 months of the 6 month stint would include travelling out and fixing IT equipment in jeeps and choppers.

You feel any need to be concerned about being out in public so to speak ?

Not sure how i feel about that, going to give it some more thought i think. I've heard it could be 4x what i can earn here, depending on the project specifics.

Could knock 5 years off my mortgage in 3 months.....its tempting.

Gilly · 24 Aug 2006 at 23:17

It'd give me a straight 10 grand to put towards a house. Thats some deposit

All debts and stuff paid off too.

Massive tempter.

I've only not come right out and said it because its through the MOD

Shotgun_ned · 24 Aug 2006 at 23:19

Yeah I would

. Would have to be more than double money though. I'd personally love to be part of a PSC team over there helping to protect the civvies, but unfortunatly I think its almost exclusively ex mil only.

G|mp · 24 Aug 2006 at 23:19

Gilly said:
It'd give me a straight 10 grand to put towards a house. Thats some deposit

All debts and stuff paid off too.

Massive tempter.

I've only not come right out and said it because its through the MOD

Ask for an SA80 then and enough ammo for 6 months

Christo · 24 Aug 2006 at 23:20

I'd be tempted

Where can you find those job opportunities by the way? Where on the internet?

G|mp · 24 Aug 2006 at 23:23

getbeheadedformoremoolah.com

squiffy · 24 Aug 2006 at 23:25

No, not for any money- I would be like a vulture and benefitting from an illegal war and supporting my goverments decision.

Gilly · 24 Aug 2006 at 23:26

^^

Thats the biggest reason I'm not there already

Chasser · 24 Aug 2006 at 23:36

Gilly, is the work with the DCSA??

Gilly · 24 Aug 2006 at 23:37

No mate, I work for a private company currently supporting government contracts. I'd be supporting generic private contracts for my current company if I went

Chasser · 24 Aug 2006 at 23:41

Ah right, it's just that I know quite a few people currently working out there, either DCSA or ATLAS on the SYNERGY in-theatre comms.

willd58 · 25 Aug 2006 at 01:41

Id be over there like a shot if it meant more money. Not only do you get more money, but your helping free a country from evil in a small way.

squiffy said:
No, not for any money- I would be like a vulture and benefitting from an illegal war and supporting my goverments decision.

Heh, this is where we disagree, im a big supporter of the war, you know, not being a communist and everything

squiffy · 25 Aug 2006 at 02:11

willd58 said:
Id be over there like a shot if it meant more money. Not only do you get more money, but your helping free a country from evil in a small way.

No you're profiteering from a destroyed country. What the hell are we doing employing our own people to rebuild their country in our image? The jobs should go to Iraqi's, and £ aid from the US and UK should go their goverment. So UK/US people get paid to rebuild their country, paid out of their oil. Whilst the Iraqi's don't get those jobs.

Disgusting. :mad:

chesterstu · 25 Aug 2006 at 02:13

2 words, Ken Bigley

willd58 · 25 Aug 2006 at 02:18

squiffy said:
No you're profiteering from a destroyed country. What the hell are we doing employing our own people to rebuild their country in our image? The jobs should go to Iraqi's, and £ aid from the US and UK should go their goverment. So UK/US people get paid to rebuild their country, paid out of their oil. Whilst the Iraqi's don't get those jobs.

Disgusting.

You know, the worlds a lot more complicated than that. I hate to break that to you and spoil your lovely black and white view of the place.

Gilly · 25 Aug 2006 at 07:50

Chasser said:
Ah right, it's just that I know quite a few people currently working out there, either DCSA or ATLAS on the SYNERGY in-theatre comms.

It'd be working in line with ATLAS

Biohazard · 25 Aug 2006 at 08:09

I would do it but I would demand/expect to be armed.

I wouldn't feel confortable in a hostile enviroment without the ability to protect my own butt

z0mbi3 · 25 Aug 2006 at 08:23

At any risk of being another Nick Berg I'd have to say no.

Mickey_D · 25 Aug 2006 at 08:33

I was asked to go over there to do telecom system setups and repairs.

3 month stint, $30,000 tax free. Stay for a year, $30,000 bonus. So for a year away from home I'd get paid $150,000 and Uncle Sam wouldn't get a penny of it.

But the offer was retracted when I asked for an additional set of plane tickets and accomodations. They asked what for. I told them for my ex-Navy Seal friend to sit at a high vantage point with his M-107 to cover my arse. They asked what an M-107 was. I told them let's just say at 2,000 yards not even kevlar's going to help keep you alive....

They retracted thier offer of employment.