would you work in an isolated area? -- overseas

x in the city

So, in the current f***ed up climate would you take a job in an area, thats ..erm, lets say not a hive of mega city activity..

I have been offered a job in one such place, which pays well and Its better than nothing. Actually the isolation is not so much the problem but getting home is rather tricky.

Its incredibly hard to get ful time well paid jobs thesedays and my family and friends said i would be nuts to not go ahead with this.

Links234

Svalbard here I come!

Kasabian

I would work on the moon to provide for my kids.

sdanseo

Very hard to say without you going into a teeny bit more details but if you're on about the likes of some farm in Oz 1,000km from anywhere then no. If it was around the same remoteness as say, a farm in Wicklow, then yes course I'd take it.

x in the city

oh, not that remote.. ,

Topper Harley01

If the money is good, go for it. It'll keep you going until something better pops up. I'd sell my granny for a job right now, just to have something to get up for in the morning. And it's probably not as bad as you think it is-there are plenty of guys who work on oil rigs etc. who just suck it up and get on with it.

It's better to have a lot of work to do actually, rather than having too much spare time on your hands. So if you want to make money, put your head down and work.

I'm surprised anyone would have to ask this in the current economic climate, tbh (Family concerns aside)....

MoodeRator

does it have internet? if yes then hell yeh!

x in the city

haha! well i am checking into an apartment which was near the hotel i was lodged into for a bit and the lady said we have wi fi...

i hope 56k cant be hedged onto a wireless router..

dubtom

I'd love it, the idea of it anyway. In these days of skype and such family are only a click away, think of the money you could earn with no distractions.

fonecrusher1

As long as it wasn't isolated. And overseas.

DOC09UNAM

Considering the OP.

If it's as isolated as you say, and the possibility of there being no internet is there I say GO FOR IT!

x in the city

dont worry chum, I will still frequent these hallowed forums..;)

Capt'n Midnight

Links234 wrote: »

Svalbard here I come!

sorry unlike the likes of Afghanistan and Saudi we didn't sign that particular treaty so we don 't have rights to Svalbard

Ghost Estate

Yes. I love remote places. It would be nice if there were a few people around and that those few people would be batsh1t crazy. A small pub would also be nice

Don't really care about broadband, as long as i have a satellite phone. 2400 or 9600bps, 1 euro per minute calls and 45c for a text. Sufficient for the odd troll post on boards.ie

Honestly I don't think it can get remote enough for me. other than a one-way mission to mars, I wouldn't bother with that.

Svalbard is not isolated either. They have a Radisson SAS ffs.

epgc3fyqirnbsx

If the money was good, it improved you CV and you enhoy your own company then you're on to a winner

bonerm

If it's got broadband then it makes no difference to me.

ejmaztec

Ghost Estate wrote: »

Yes. I love remote places. It would be nice if there were a few people around and that those few people would be batsh1t crazy. A small pub would also be nice

Don't really care about broadband, as long as i have a satellite phone. 2400 or 9600bps, 1 euro per minute calls and 45c for a text. Sufficient for the odd troll post on boards.ie

Honestly I don't think it can get remote enough for me. other than a one-way mission to mars, I wouldn't bother with that.

Svalbard is not isolated either. They have a Radisson SAS ffs.

You must be used to living in a remote area, with no neighbours for miles.

arybvtcw0eolkf

You'll have to throw in some bombs & bullets to make it interesting for myself, Benweaver & Poccington otherwise the boredom factor will get to us :cool:

Up-n-atom!

If the money was good and the job was ok, I'd definitely do it for the short term, at least. 6months to a year isn't going to kill anyone. Unless it goes the way of The Shining, that is...

phasers

As long as it wasn't in the middle of a warzone or something I'd go for it, as long as it paid enough for a decent life.

El Siglo

Done fieldwork in the Bay of Bengal, pretty remote and nobody speaks English (you'd be lucky to find anyone speaking Hindi). I'd recommend it!:D

syklops

x in the city wrote: »

So, in the current f***ed up climate would you take a job in an area, thats ..erm, lets say not a hive of mega city activity..

I have been offered a job in one such place, which pays well and Its better than nothing. Actually the isolation is not so much the problem but getting home is rather tricky.

Its incredibly hard to get ful time well paid jobs thesedays and my family and friends said i would be nuts to not go ahead with this.

Is it in Wexford?

Setun

I would for sure Go for it. And when you are out there on your own, feeling all isolated and that, may I suggest this song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdYLmzxMlxY

steddyeddy

Have done several times working and training as a zoologist in rwanda, sumatra, sudan and the cascade mountains washington

Ghost Estate

ejmaztec wrote: »

You must be used to living in a remote area, with no neighbours for miles.

i wish

bonerm

Daddio wrote: »

I would for sure Go for it. And when you are out there on your own, feeling all isolated and that, may I suggest this song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdYLmzxMlxY

Better
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5fYMjzeW0U

Setun

Good call, although I am partial to a bit of Milky Joe and the Coconuts Haven't listened to Joy Division in a while though.

Back on topic: get out of Ireland OP - Siberia, Burkina Faso, it doesn't matter. Just leave!

steddyeddy

Daddio wrote: »

Good call, although I am partial to a bit of Milky Joe and the Coconuts Haven't listened to Joy Division in a while though.

Back on topic: get out of Ireland OP - Siberia, Burkina Faso, it doesn't matter. Just leave!

I would love to go to siberia, vast unexplored area

x in the city

Oh, I am getting the hell out of here, the place does have broadband, 3G coverage and pubs and even a night club. Relocation is paid for 3 months also to the value of ca €3,500

Ghost Estate

x in the city wrote: »

Oh, I am getting the hell out of here, the place does have broadband, 3G coverage and pubs and even a night club. Relocation is paid for 3 months also to the value of ca €3,500

and you're calling it isolated?

Setun

steddyeddy wrote: »

I would love to go to siberia, vast unexplored area

So would I. I'm sure Burkina Faso would be a very interesting place too.

Ghost Estate

I'm actually waiting for one of the lads on this list to retire so I can get my dream job.

x in the city

Ghost Estate wrote: »

and you're calling it isolated?

Yeah, as it is at least 3 hours or so to the nearest 'big' city, and it also has a surcharge for most deleveries due to its location.

Ghost Estate

x in the city wrote: »

Yeah, as it is at least 3 hours or so to the nearest 'big' city, and it also has a surcharge for most deleveries due to its location.

3 hours over dry land? what kind of stuff are you looking to have delivered you can't take with you?

KurtRussel

Check this old thread out:

Some guy posted on the travel forum and offered a caretaking job the middle of nowhere in Greenland, in some sort of research station in the arctic circle where it's dark pretty much all day... you are given a gun just in case polar bears come... it seemed pretty facking isolated. Spending the whole winter alone in the middle of a facking glacier... I don't think I'd do it, and I have no kids or assests or anything, and I like to consider myself as quite adventurous.

http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055375021

Solnskaya

I took a job once in a remote, isolated, desolate place and have never been the same since. The strange customs of the locals, the lack of amenities, the distance to civilisation and human contact, the wierd and agressive fauna, poor infrastructure and backward beliefs nearly drove me mad.... I'm never taking a job in Offaly again, no matter how good the money is.

Khyra24

Wow I think that'd be an awesome experience. If you don't have any real worries about leaving anything behind then you should go for it. A full time well-paid job is truly hard to obtain nowadays indeed...you don't have to take a dump in the ground and wipe your bum with leaves now, do you?

Dionysus

x in the city wrote: »

would you work in an isolated area? -- overseas

I'd absolutely love it. I walked all 800km of the Camino de Santiago last summer and adored the isolation of it. Can't wait to go back again this summer.

If your family and friends are saying you'd be nuts - well, what more incentive do you need to do it? Some day you'll probably be tied down and have loads of obligations. Carpe diem.

Dionysus

Solnskaya wrote: »

I took a job once in a remote, isolated, desolate place and have never been the same since. The strange customs of the locals, the lack of amenities, the distance to civilisation and human contact, the wierd and agressive fauna, poor infrastructure and backward beliefs nearly drove me mad.... I'm never taking a job in Offaly again, no matter how good the money is.

hehe. This reminds me of something I read from an English settler in Offaly, or King's County as it had just been renamed, in 1557.

Sergeant

In Canada at the moment, and met an Irish lad last week who works in a gold mine in the Yukon territory. Dawson City. Making massive money, but the isolation must be getting to him if he considers Calgary "awesome".

Mahatma coat

Jaysus, my weekender farm sounds more remote than this Job offer of yours. 'in this Current Economic clmate' you'd be a looper to turn down a well paid job.

the only dealbreaker for me would be if the job was in a country that Frowned upon Alcohol or Bacon

So where is this Job anyway???

Solnskaya

Probably somwhere like Colchester.

some_dose

I was trying to apply for a job as a fisheries observer onboard the crabbing boats in the Bering Sea (the same boats that are on Deadliest Catch). Over $6000 per month for 12-20 days at sea and you may only have to work up to 4 hours a day onboard the boat. The remoteness is meant to be crazy with alcoholism rife.

But they recently changed the immigration laws with regards to fisheries observers so thats that gone. I'd love to take a Land Rover across Siberia though - especially to here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event (freaky stuff)

fat__tony

x in the city wrote: »

Oh, I am getting the hell out of here, the place does have broadband, 3G coverage and pubs and even a night club. Relocation is paid for 3 months also to the value of ca €3,500

How about telling us where the bloody place is?

Why so secretive about it?

rossie1977

some_dose wrote: »

But they recently changed the immigration laws with regards to fisheries observers so thats that gone. I'd love to take a Land Rover across Siberia though - especially to here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event (freaky stuff)

say hello to one of the billions of mosquitoes that infest that place for me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEAZ3uzCtJQ

taintabird

Its all a question of risk and reward if the reward is good enough I would take the risk no problem

FTGFOP

@rossie1977: I watched that and now I'm really itchy. :mad:

OP, you should go, you'll get a few stories out of it. Will you at least tell us the country it's in?

Mat the trasher

Go for it. I frequently end up is such remote places, in fact in one now. Once you have the interweb for the Skype and a beer supply!

Yea definitely... Will hopefully do it in the next 2 years. Middle of nowhere in Chili or somethin..

seamie11

hi all just reading the post about working in isolated areas,i worked for a while in outback australia,600k from perth,in a goldmining town,repairing heavy machinery,in workshop,and out in the bush,desert areas,scorching hot over40 degrees most days,millions of flies,and yes you do sometimes have to use grass for toilet purposes,18 hr days,money was good,few pubs in town,but great experience

Dempo1

Heck yeah, i used to travel from the Slieve bloom mountains to Baltimore,Maryland, USA, returning home every three months. I would give my right arm (well i may need that) for a full time job anywhere, including Timbuktu!