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Help! A job offer in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

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  • #52
    booksale
    Registered Users Posts: 436 ✭✭booksale


    Hiya, guys. Greetings from Jeddah. We have been here for about a week. Things are good so far. My husband is very happy as he feels like he's back to his home town. He's from the southern part of Italy and it's influenced a lot by the Arabs. And he can find a lot of Italian brands here too, from cooking pots to clothes ... Traffic is crazy but it's ok for my Italian husband who was born in a country with crazy drivers too ( but I think drivers here are more crazy, I wouldn't want to drive here anyway even given the chance )

    Jeddah is really a quite open minded city. And you can see people are friendly. I am lucky I can come with my family. People respect families. We skipped queue in the immigration. Baby gets a lot of hugs, kisses, blessings, smiles and and funny faces from people here (men, women, kids ).

    The family I work for is great. Working hours is much less than written on contract. They are going to do the resident permits for us now. Compound is great. Neighbour are friendly. So far, the experience is good.

    We are now trying to sort out the childcare for baby. I have got a few people contacting us to work as a babysitter. But I am looking for childcare centre instead. Good for baby's social life and also my husband can focus on the work without baby around. The facility in the compound can't accommidate baby that young. So we will see.

    Bye for now and thank you for all the advice given!!


  • #53
    First Up
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,823 ✭✭✭✭First Up


    booksale wrote: »
    Hiya, guys. Greetings from Jeddah. We have been here for about a week. Things are good so far. My husband is very happy as he feels like he's back to his home town. He's from the southern part of Italy and it's influenced a lot by the Arabs. And he can find a lot of Italian brands here too, from cooking pots to clothes ... Traffic is crazy but it's ok for my Italian husband who was born in a country with crazy drivers too ( but I think drivers here are more crazy, I wouldn't want to drive here anyway even given the chance )

    Jeddah is really a quite open minded city. And you can see people are friendly. I am lucky I can come with my family. People respect families. We skipped queue in the immigration. Baby gets a lot of hugs, kisses, blessings, smiles and and funny faces from people here (men, women, kids ).

    The family I work for is great. Working hours is much less than written on contract. They are going to do the resident permits for us now. Compound is great. Neighbour are friendly. So far, the experience is good.

    We are now trying to sort out the childcare for baby. I have got a few people contacting us to work as a babysitter. But I am looking for childcare centre instead. Good for baby's social life and also my husband can focus on the work without baby around. The facility in the compound can't accommidate baby that young. So we will see.

    Bye for now and thank you for all the advice given!!

    Thanks for taking the trouble to give us an update and it is great to know everything is going well. I hope it all works out as well as it has started.


  • #54
    wuffly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 662 ✭✭✭wuffly


    Glad to hear its going well for you Booksale. Best of luck!


  • #55
    smurfjed
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,277 ✭✭✭✭smurfjed


    We are now trying to sort out the childcare for baby
    There are some kindergardens around, but i don't know the minimum age for babies, generally people have maids who babysit.

    Traffic has gotten worse over the years, cars are just way too cheap to buy and to run. Now you just need to learn how to make local hooch and you will be fine :)


  • #56
    First Up
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,823 ✭✭✭✭First Up


    smurfjed wrote: »
    There are some kindergardens around, but i don't know the minimum age for babies, generally people have maids who babysit.

    Traffic has gotten worse over the years, cars are just way too cheap to buy and to run. Now you just need to learn how to make local hooch and you will be fine :)

    Yes, everyone needs some Siddiqui!


  • #57
    booksale
    Registered Users Posts: 436 ✭✭booksale


    Oh, we were taught how to make the juice the first day we arrived! A British in the compound gave us the recipe.

    My husband is very careful though. So we might just have some lemonade...


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