Guest Post: Where To Find The Best Jobs In The World
Submitted by Simon Black of Sovereign Man
Where To Find The Best Jobs In The World
Government economic statistics are all lies and gorilla math… and one of their most creative frauds is the unemployment figure.
Intuitively, when they say ‘the unemployment rate is 9%,’ that would suggest to the average Joe that 9% of the labor force is, in fact, unemployed. Oh no. Most governments have entire departments and agencies to dazzle people with statistics and calculations that defy common sense.
You see, when someone has been unemployed for too long, they can simply fall out of the system. In other words, the number of unemployed people can actually rise, while the government’s official unemployment rate falls. It boggles the mind. Government figures in no way pose an accurate snapshot of the situation.
A better way to look at it is to consider the raw numbers. In the United States, there are roughly 14 million unemployed, and millions more who are either part-time or woefully underemployed. In Europe, the number of unemployed is over 20 million.
It’s not a pretty picture, and the more that governments do to ‘fix it,’ the longer they prolong the pain. Barack Obama is set to blow another useless round of hundreds of billions of dollars, while central bankers from the United States to England to Switzerland are inflating their currencies without bound.
If you’re one of the tens of millions of unemployed in the western world, I have good news and bad news. The bad news is that your situation at home isn’t getting better anytime soon. The good news is that many foreign job markets are quite strong.
Here in the Middle East, there are a number of countries that shook off the effects of the economic downturn and are still growing feverishly. If you’re looking for a job, this may be a good place to start.
Even a casual glace at the employment section of Gulf News, one of the region’s leading publications (based in Dubai), shows a number of well-paying positions available in a variety of fields… things like:
- Marketing manager: $5500 monthly
- Bank branch manager: $8200 monthly
- Financial analyst: $15,000 monthly
- Administrative assistant: $1800 monthly
- Warehouse supervisor: $1700 monthly
- Personal trainer: $2750 monthly
- Fashion retail shop manager: $2200 monthly
- Regional sales manager: $9000 monthly
- Business development manager: $9500 monthly
- Senior accountant: $11,000 monthly
- Quality control specialist: $12,250 monthly
These jobs are available across the region, from Abu Dhabi to Kurdistan (yes that’s Iraq) to Egypt to Qatar to here in Lebanon.
Most of the positions, especially the better paying jobs, have great benefits. And no I’m not talking about casual Friday. In this part of the world, it’s common for employers to provide a house and chauffeured car in the package, and sometimes even private schooling for the kids.
Commissions and profit shares are also common, depending on the position. And as an added benefit, most of these places have little or no local tax… so you keep what you earn.
By way of comparison, if you make $4,000/month ($48,000 annually) in Abu Dhabi, that’s the after-tax equivalent of making $65,000/year in the US. If you make $7,500/month ($90,000 annually) in Dubai, it’s like making $130,000 in the US.
What’s more, US tax law excludes the first $92,900 from income tax. Other nationalities pay nothing.
Remember, the world is a big place, and there’s a lot of opportunity out there for the creative mind that seeks unconventional solutions. Right now on the Gulf News jobs website, there are hundreds of jobs that pay anywhere from $4,000 to over $16,000 per month just waiting to be filled.
Most of those nearly 30 million unemployed in the United States and Europe are going to sit around and wait for the government to ‘fix things.’ I hope they’re patient because they’re going to be waiting for a very, very long time.
Other people who are willing to take control of their future will find a lot of options if they have the courage and resourcefulness to look overseas.
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Sorry, OT: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44439782/ns/us_news/#.TmjrguywVtA sort of.
Oh great; another post from the pedantic Simon "the grass is always greener" Black.
Well Simon; the grass may be greener on the other side of the fence; but it still needs to be mowed...
yeah...I mean Dubai?? The nation that said fuck off to any nonconnected contract party? The one with a ton of filthy arabs who won't hesitate to screw the shit out of you, and the one with the supermassive property bubble and zillions of sqft of empty CRE?
The nation that said fuck off to any nonconnected contract party?
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Because that is different in the US?
If you aspire to making $92k while living in a hell hole, more power to you.
Agreed. Simon "No immigration controls" Black is a dolt. He wants all countries to lift all immigration restrictions immediately, which, by the way, the USA did years ago. Furthermore, this lack of immigration restrictions is the principal cause of the high unemployment rate in the USA. Simon Black apparently cannot see the causal nexus there. Dolt.
-- Paul D. Bain
Let's hope mass migration out of the US happens soon.
We already have mass migration of American jobs.
Be careful what you ask for. Have you ever heard the phrase "The good get out"? Well, they are. They have. Look at what you have left.
Already happening. Here in Phoenix about half the Mexicans took their money and went home
Americans don't want to work. Got it? That's what the Chinese are for.
You got that right Funky Monkey! That's why since leaving High School I saved my money in gold and now I' retired at 50. It's real simple. I don't even own a house! Not yet anyway. For all the sheeple that followed the herd and started up those 401K thingys, I got one word to say..... SUCKAS!!!!!!!!!!!
All of my parents generation (aunts, uncles, etc.) Were screwed by the stock market, pension, 401k world, so I simply will not do that shit.
I'm in gold, silver, lead, and sustainability.
Good luck if you aren't!
Americans don't need to work. We have a consumer economy and our role is to consume Chinese exports. But in order for this system to function we need to boost aggregate demand or else we will spiral into chaos.
Satire is more funnier when you don't ruin it by saying, "Heads up: this is satire." +1
Okay, your mask of absurdity slipped a little on that one and the sarcasm shined through just a tad.
Actaully the Chinese are exploiting Africa like America did to them.
Good work, if you can get it.
/sarc (in case it isn't obvious)
LOL monkey, I'd love to say you are wrong, but I went to my son's football practice yesterday and I was appalled. I have never seen a bigger bunch of lethargic fat bodies. They were dogging it the whole practice and basically refused to run. How do you play football if you can't run? If they take that work ethic into the real world, they are doomed.
Don't worry man, the up and coming "great thinning" will fix that slack, dead ass shit most ricki-tick.
He didn't mention Apple
I hear the benefits are great at Longhua
Even flying lessons.
Physics lessons? :p
Yeah...that's fuckin brilliant Simon. Have Americans go to the middle east seeking jobs because we've been soooooo good to Arabs and Muslims that they'll just be thrilled to death that we go there and seek jobs.
Seriously...just fuckin brilliant. While you're at it, why not suggest a Palestinian run for Mayor of Tel Aviv?
lmfao
his post have gotten so preposterous that I would not at all be surprised to see him write something suggesting we all take jobs as jugglers for a tribe of pygmies in the Congo.
Or, how about setting up a yacht brokerage in Haiti?
LOL!!! yeah that's the kind of shit I can see coming from him.
Why did you have to go and let the cat out of the bag?
This guy is a nut.
The pygmies have job openings? Pack my bags, Mavis!
4200 applicants showed up for the juggling gig. I've been juggling since I was twelve and couldn't even get a callback. It's that tough out there. I guess it's off to Abu Dhabi or Doha. I do what I've been told is a really convincing Gamal Abdul Nasser impression. "Qowmia al Arabiya!" Hopefully I can do stand-up in some juice bar.
Alien, you've obviously haven't travel to the middle east. They like Americans, what they don't like is our government.
I, being fond of women in Bikini's, can find no practical reason to want to go there.
You, being too fat to fuck, lose nothing in the move.
I'm pretty sure they're fond of women in bikinis too... hence the popularity of baywatch...
haha -you took the words out of my mouth
Yeah, what the fuck is "grass-is-always-greener" Simon really selling and why does he keep ending up in the main articles on ZH?
Obvioulsy he needs a tax write-off for all his traveling. Probably that's the real motive for the increasingly crazy posts...
I thought that was what the US army was for. They find plenty of work for Americans in the Middle East.
Like there is a rating for articles, there needs to be a rating for the comments section as a whole. This is hillarious.
I new something was up with Simon when he went postal on someone bringing up fuel riots/protests in Terra del Fuego during his Chile phase.
Yeah......but America has the best corporate welfare system in the world. America will always be number one in something!
/sarc
Simon your drivel is thinly veiled marketing at best. Wonderful sales pitch with nothing behind it. Are you a secret groupon agent?
gnads4u.com?
gonands for you . com?
This site is like herpes, viruses will come of it.
I checked out the site, and now I have to make the tough decision of whether I want to be a "Country Manager" or a "Discipline Engineer."
I worked as a "Discipline Engineer" once. I think it was on 42nd Street in New York, though.
OBama is gonna have 100+ oil soon if he keeps up these RAMP job..
look at crude today.. megaphone pattern? this pattern is not created by retail moving it 1 dollar ever 20 minutes
http://www.hedgeaccording.ly/2011/09/todays-wtf-chart-crude-megaphone-us...
they are overpaid for now.
Having been there and listening to the expat chatter, this is a crock of shit. If there are jobs there now, it is because no one wants to be there.
Now that is funny. Unfortunately, the American accent is getting to be almost universally hated. Sad but true.
Here in india, all the expats hide in gated communities, commute in blackened out SUV's and have their own 'circles". Never sees them mix. Teh foreigners out and about are th estudents of Yoga, hippies and of course those damn Israeli de-mobbed tourist drug mules.
Simon gets a negative here. Thumbs down. The ME is anything but a safe haven for Ummerikans.
Leave if you don't need to work or if you can be humble.
V
Ills of Outsourcing
I want to go to New Zealand, but I'm too old and they don't want me. I don't blame them.
Yep, it's the old "Any country that would have me I wouldn't care to live in" thing.
Now that is funny. Unfortunately, the American accent is getting to be almost universally hated. Sad but true.
Here in india, all the expats hide in gated communities, commute in blackened out SUV's and have their own 'circles". Never sees them mix.
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Sorry but this is common procedure for US citizens in any country they expatriate to.
US citizens really think that their ways are superior. They dont want them to be tainted by other people's ways.
Quite astonishing when one considers that it is the US ways that has pushed the world headlong to the current disaster but wont prevent US citizens from never mixing with others, never learn the language and the rest...
That is their natural behaviour. They are not hiding. They just preserve themselves from the effects of alien influence (because, yes, everywhere US citizens go, they are at home and the locals are the foreigners)
That is just the way it is.
Yeah, foreigners never do that stuff in the US.
Why does EVERYONE overgeneralize around here ALL THE TIME.
0_o
You must realize if you think about it; that people would rather not think. Expect the result when 90% rinse, repeat all day long and since they didn't think about it, must manage to eat it just like they dreamed it optimistically ever after.
As a long time expatriate, I'll share with you something you may not know:
Everybody hates everybody. You are included on the receiving end of the hate, as much as you like to believe you are the superior one and you have escaped it.
Though my evidence is anecdotal, but is based on an ability to speak half a dozen languages and understand what I overhear, the current Most Hated group in the world is Chinese. They are viewed as loud, arrogant, dirty and rude. Personally, the main thing that bothers me (MsCreant, I'll be generalizing here) is when they sneeze on the breakfast buffet or take a bite of a Danish to test it, then put it back on the tray when they find they don't like it.
Americans were the Most Hated in the late 1950's. They've tried, often successfully, to make a comeback. They were usurped by Germans, the Arabs, then Japanese. Koreans had a bad period, but clever marketing of television dramas bought them some goodwill, at least in SEAsia. The Chinese burst on the scene a few years ago and quickly wore out their welcome and reached the exalted status of Most Hated in record time, an achievement to which I am willing to ascribe the term "miracle".
Americans' mistake today might well be believing somebody even cares about them. Frankly, if they are not going to mistreat the locals, berate hotel or retail staff, or take the occasional bite out of a cheese Danish, they're off the top spot for good.
Again, this is anecdotal, but this seems to be the New World Order in terms of general dislike: Chinese>Indian>German.
Oh, to address one thing you said, tell me one single ethnic group on the face of the Earth who doesn't think it is superior and knows best how to do everything.
Chindit, you realize you will never really experience the non-expat view of things? Logically and bio-logically impossible.
Your views on India are narrow in-spite of your best efforts to the conntrary.
V
So?
He has a perspective. So do you. Each is colored by your locations in geographical and social space.
What is your point?
Actually, I can really experience the non-expat view of things. It's possible when I go home. I hear how people think about "outsiders". I also know it is consistent across cultures, which is why I say everybody hates everybody, and everybody wants to believe himself or his culture, food, history, philosophy superior.
Obviously if someone thinks I am American (though most don't because I've been away so long my fashion sense is quite different and though I'm tall I am not the quintessential overweight Yank) they are not going to badmouth Americans within earshot, but they wouldn't be afraid to, amongst themselves, badmouth other ethnicities. That's where my language arsenal comes in handy. So, though admittedly anecdotal, I do believe I have a pretty clear idea of the relative pecking order of the world's disliked, and in the few decades I have been an expat, I've noticed the ebb and flow of who is on the receiving end.
I think---actually I know for a fact---that anyone who thinks he is not disliked (in a general way, but not necessarily individually) as an ex-pat or within the borders of another ethnic group, is fooling himself. Everybody hates everybody else.
More correctly, virtually every single person with the same level of wealth as an expatriate American in India lives in a gated community of walled compound. Doesn’t matter if they’re American, French or Indian. The difference is that the expats treat their staff, if they have one, as human beings and not slaves.
In the ME, Americans in general are pretty safe. Yes, they represent targets to al Qaeda or other terror groups, but in general they are infinitely more safe than the typical expatriate Indian, Pakistani, Filipino, Indonesian or Thai laborer, all of whom tend to be treated poorly as a part of national industrial policy.
best job in the world? clean up at fukushima. you only have to work ten minutes a day...................
Really? This guy is recommending moving to Kurdistan?
oooookkkkkkk
dirka dirka mohamed jihad
Aren't they at war with Turkey now?
Sounds like the only Westerners needed there are arms dealers and mercenaries.
We have always been at war with EurAsia.
We have always been at war.
middle east? what do i do with the austrian boutique hotel you told me to buy?
Sell it for eleven milliondy dollars! By now (in the week and a half) you should have made a 100000000000000000000000000% profit by following his advice.
I'm waiting for him to suggest opening a high end bed and breakfast in the Congo.
While you are there you can throw Big Macs at the poor enslaved people who built that whole place. You know, the ones who have had their Visas taken and are prisoners.
Oh, and don't fall upon hard times either. Get tossed in the clink with no way to pay, no way to leave.
Brilliant Simon, you have just officially Jumped the Shark.
Cue a contrib photo of the Fonz waving whilst on water skis.
pods
I think the biggest upset this autumn will be the violent rise of the dollar. Everyone is so bearish about it, everyone is so sure a massive QE3 is coming but what if it does not?
If you believe that those who run the show are evil don’t you think the most evil think to do right now is to screw everyone by not printing more money?
They will probably do it later, but not before they f**ked everyone.
The EURO holders will try to flee it, where are they going to go? Some money will be allocated to Gold but most of it will go back to the dollar until it collapses too. Right now the USD is doing a silent rally but it won’t stay that way for long.
Think about it, it is not in China’s interest to see its dollar holdings evaporate, therefore they will not do what might kill the dollar. Slowly buying commodities is the best they can do.
Folks if you have some PMs hold on to them but do not buy at this very high prices wait until the end of this month to see what happens. If you don’t have any buy some and keep some cash for the eventuality of a strong dollar rally.
Better to be prepared than sorry.
(Speaking of jobs, if Benny starts QE3 he will lose his job and his head)
operation twist and qu3 are baked in , aren't they? so if this doesn't happen, then what? s & p , oh how about 666?
Looks Very very likely. Last powerless, stick hugging, yanking rise for th edollar prior to the stall innduced plummet.
But please note that this advice is good for the US at this time. If the dollar strengthens massively, PM prices in Rupees will skyrocket at the time. As an example. India is a net silver importer. That is the time to transfer to more tangible assets or move some to cash to catch the PM downdraft. Soem timing involved, but it will play out over weeks at least, if not a few months.
Elenin got swallowed by Jupiter (or shat upon and pulled apart), so something else must be up, timing presently unknown.
Good luck to everyone for the week/anniversary coming up.
V
If it got vacuumed by Jupiter, then where are the shoemacher/levy style photos of it? To be classified as a planet, it's mass would have had to have been orders of magnitude larger than SL7. SL7 left some pretty nasty cigarette burns on Jupiters face and they lasted for a while. Anyone noticed those yet from planet X?
Or, if it got waylaid by the gravity well and broke up, there's still a problem The mass is still there, it's just a shotgun blast that's going to hit instead of a single slug.
Oh, yeah, that's part of the conspiracy too, right?
All I have is NASA reports to go by LF. Who knows eh?
Moon landings, FTW!
V
This is a case of anticipating the anticipation meaning you think that a lot of people anticipate QE3 so you say they will be disapointed and so you load up on the anti trade, however a lot of people know that people anticipate this and are sitting in dollar already (to sell them to a fool later at higher levels) so i think quite a few "traders" are long USD (so not invested in PM). This is a tricky trade, could work, but usually the market likes to fool around.
the swiss are certainly doing everything they can to guarantee a dollar rise
but at the end of the day this trade only works if Gold in USD goes down. So basically this is just taking a position on Gold correcting.
imo the dollar rise has begun...although the usdx is imperfect it is weighted 57.6% to the euro after all...i would guess the euro (and the franc) will be weaker than the dollar in the short term...the usdx looks set to break above 76ish after forming a multiple bottom...strength is imo likely to be short lived but right now the fiat game is like musical chairs...check out usd/chf
Middle East. You have got to be kidding me. Out of the frying pan and into the fire.
What about real jobs like doctors, engineers, architects, scientists, machinists, etc.? You know, the ones that actually create wealth and improve the human condition rather than just market and manage it.
AMEN!
We are currently on a Galtian strike.
Too true Centerline. Too true. Real worth as a way of creating value has slipped quietly into the night.
V
Most of the positions, especially the better paying jobs, have great benefits. And no I’m not talking about casual Friday. In this part of the world, it’s common for employers to provide a house and chauffeured car in the package, and sometimes even private schooling for the kids.
Actually that chauffeured car perk tends to be a good indicator of poor living conditions. And let's not pretend that more than .1% of these positions are open to women (which, even if you're male is another good indicator of poor living conditions).
But if you're going to go Filipino be sure to load up your Ipad with those 1000 books you've been meaning to read....and...uh...some videos... because there isn't much else there (on a fun or risk/reward basis) worth doing.
Oh...let me think....a good paying job for a time with a possible kid napping and beheading or suffer on unemployment...Tough one...All though a good beheading for myself is likely overdue, I think I will just suffer here in the U.S......at least I will have my head....
This Simon fuck is getting on my nerves...
Been all around there, landscape like Mars and the people are worse, un-reconstructed Nazis.
Do not take your wife or g/f unless they like being spat on in souhks or thrown off balconies at parties if they don't come across for some prince wannabe.
Hill & Knowlton have a lot to answer for. Absolute cunt of a place.
I have to agree. I'm getting tired of Simon Black. He's strolling around the world like Rick Steves writing these pointless articles.
with technology replacing so many jobs..i am surprised people are still writing about where to find jobs??
What about a discussion on
1. Do we really need jobs? ( why are we working 5 days a week now?, why are there so few people controlling all the resources? Can we manage resources better?)
2. Can we think of a new social model which allows us all to relax and let technology do the work
3. Why not make a 3 day work week, that way, more people can find jobs and many of us can relax and do other things in life than be a hamster
Oh...like Greece but in a high tech way...Sounds good to me...reward the unrewarding..transfer the wealth....Great social model...
wealth is only required when you believe in a system of scarcity.
If we believe in a system of abundance, we dont need to store things or accumulate either as a sign of our own worth or for survival.
I believe there is abundance on this planet that can be harnessed for the benefit of everyone.
I know i am on a different trip, dreaming of utopia..and shit...but the first step towards that is to at least consider it as a possibility. How we get there is the next challenge
I'm shocked you didn't get troll rated for this. How about that, the lonely masses are waking up even on zerohedge.
Had to junk you brother, nothing personal, but creating a new social model where people don't have to go to work would be suicidal.
Most people today are hulking shambling mounds of suet. The only exercise these disguesting creatures get is hauling their fat asses out of bed five days a week and going to work. When they get home, their idea of leisure is to sit in front of the tube so their metabolisms slow and digest each and every calorie of the processed shit they stuff in their ugly pie holes. They can't even go to the supermarket without an electric cart to haul their useless carcasses around. Watch them cross a street, they never break into a trot. They live life in first gear and couldn't care less. Take away the one part of their day where they can't wallow in mud and swill alcohol, and they'd be dead in a month.
Hey, that's an idea. Sorry I junked you.
I'm a blond haired blue eyed janitor in a Detroit public high school.
It's the worst job in the world.
When I can carry a pistol concealed in those places I'll consider it. Till then fuck that, I'm in Texas.