shimweasel

Well, this is an unexpected turn of events.

I just got a call from my Qatar contact, and apparently there’s been some political manouevring. They’re unwilling to send someone over to Qatar before they bond with “The Team”. Therefore, instead of going over on the 10th of August with the lighting team, they’ve offered me a two month gig at $1300/week with the costume team in Australia, followed by three months in Qatar with the lighting crew at $2100/week.

This strikes me as more than a little dumb.
For a start, it seems a little presumptuous to assume that a qualified C programmer (indeed, the only specialist programmer they appear to have) would be happy to sit in a workshop sewing lights into costumes. For another thing, I’d be getting no contact with any of the people I’d originally been contacted to work with, so the team-building thing seems a little perverse.

On the other hand… the wages aren’t absolutely terrible. They’d be paying me $30 an hour for something I’m woefully unqualified to do, but I suppose that’s their lookout. It’d also mean that I could keep my sydney contracting going a little longer. I wouldn’t ordinarily accept the job, but the eventual Qatar posting does sweeten the deal a little bit.

Gah. Just when I’d made up my mind. Nothing’s ever simple, is it…