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Are you ready for some international football? With an NCAA moratorium on creating new bowl games ending after this season and smaller conferences finding themselves increasingly left out of discussions with the power leagues, the “Group of Five” is looking … Continue reading →
If you had a contract for a job that paid as much as I suspect it did to go there, you were an idiot not to take it. Dubai is a fabulous place to live or visit.
You would have looked great in a keffiyeh, white robes and reflective aviator glasses driving around in a Mercedes S class.
I have friends that took two year security, flying, engineering or finance contracts there, lived like kings, their companies paying the rent, gaving them a car and providing travel benefits. Meanwhile they banked a cool quarter million each yearbecause they virtually had no expenses. Came back to the US with retirement assured in their early 50s.
Mission to CFB's National Championship accomplished. But the shine on the NC Trophy is embarrassingly wearing off. It's M B-Ball ..... or hockey or volley ball or name your college sport favorite time ...... until next year.
LOL @ the concept of a college football game in a place where alcohol use is restricted to that extent. Whatever your take on Dubai (and mine is that if nukes were socially acceptable I'd hit it either before or after Orlando), you gotta admit that's a terrible idea from the standpoint of public saftey and event management. On the other hand, I'd go just to see what happens when 60k+ Americans (of the type likely to be as alert as ever for suspicious incidents, so to speak) aim to drink in a parking lot there. As a matter of fact, excuse me while I go get funding for a documentary...
If you had a contract for a job that paid as much as I suspect it did to go there, you were an idiot not to take it. Dubai is a fabulous place to live or visit.
You would have looked great in a keffiyeh, white robes and reflective aviator glasses driving around in a Mercedes S class.
I have friends that took two year security, flying, engineering or finance contracts there, lived like kings, their companies paying the rent, gaving them a car and providing travel benefits. Meanwhile they banked a cool quarter million each yearbecause they virtually had no expenses. Came back to the US with retirement assured in their early 50s.
COO decided he wanted me to do something else... Worked out fine. In fact, worked out better compared to people who have gone on that assignment.
As for kings... Not likely. Rent and some cost of living adj. not much else. I wouldn't have sold my home because it was only a 13 month assignment... Quick rotation. So many people want to go (and to other global positions), there is no need to pay a premium.
LOL @ the concept of a college football game in a place where alcohol use is restricted to that extent. Whatever your take on Dubai (and mine is that if nukes were socially acceptable I'd hit it either before or after Orlando), you gotta admit that's a terrible idea from the standpoint of public saftey and event management. On the other hand, I'd go just to see what happens when 60k+ Americans (of the type likely to be as alert as ever for suspicious incidents, so to speak) aim to drink in a parking lot there. As a matter of fact, excuse me while I go get funding for a documentary...
You can drink in hotels.. Trust me...
Grammar... The difference between feeling your nuts and feeling you're nuts.
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