Congrats first of all.
This is a move myself and my wife are hoping to make by the end of the year( Im IT, she a math teacher)
So as someone actively trying to look I have a few questions:
1) When searching for jobs, did you come across pay rates? Im seeing alot of jobs that are "competive" i just dont wanna waste my time. Did you do your seatching through a recruiter?
2) What is your apartment like, good quality? What about the broadband?
3) You drive? I hear its way cheper to buy a 2nd hand whip than to lease?
4) How them barbers treating you?
Appreciate it bro!
1. I only came across pay rates for the contractor roles. A 3rd-party recruiter contacted me for a position 5-6 years ago, via Linkedin, but ultimately i lacked the experience at the time. He was upfront with the pay. When i applied a few months ago for the salary position, i didn't know what the pay would be but i had an idea of what it could be. I still had to negotiate when i got the formal offer bc it was much lower than the contract offer, which was like 187k/year contract. Of course, that was with no benefits, no vacation, no paid for housing, no 9k travel allowance, etc. So after they gave me their counter to my counter, i actually called up that recruiter from 5-6 years ago and he was cool enough to give me his perspective on the offer sheet; and i also called up a buddy who used to worked there as a contractor but knew the pay of his salary coworkers (all same field as me); long story short, the total amount of the package (benefits +perks) was reasonable in comparison to the contractor amount, and in line with what others of my expertise were getting. Basically i did my due diligence to make sure i was getting paid right. No matter what the price, def don't be afraid to negotiate.
2. If you have a wife and/or kids then you get a house that looks more like what you see in the Family Matters tv show lol. For singles like myself, i get a small 2 story townhouse. All the singles live together in their neck of the neighborhood and all the family status live in their neighborhood; tho there are various clusters of those groupings. The 2 story townhoses are nothing to sneeze at but my work buddy who is married with 2 kids has a ridiculously huge house. The internet they provide is meh. Great for posting on the coli and browsing the internet but laggy for streaming. There are other 3rd party companies that offer better internet (or so i'm told, i need to switch). Apparently they are normalizing high speed internet here soon, but until then... meh.
3. I don't yet but i'm going to buy a car just to get around camp. The camp is too big of a community to walk; and while they have a pretty good bus system, it's not the same as having a car. People typically buy cars from each other; from people going back to their hometown or whatever; you can get a used car to get you around for like 9k. Or you can get a new/used one from the dealership, but most recommend just by it from your neighbors. There are websites where people put cars and stuff for sale.
4.I got a baldy, so I can't speak much on this, other than my corporation has a barber in our building and he is A1. There are barbers on camp but i just get mine once a week at work; there's quite a number of brehs here and they got fresh cuts so i gotta ask who they go to.
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