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Old 12th Nov 2008, 17:41
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chuks
 
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You will need to be more qualified than indigenes for hiring you to make any sense so that you will probably find much higher minimums than what you have now.

You might be better off staying home to do flight instruction and air taxi flying to build hours and experience before trying your hand overseas.

Nowadays many countries have plenty of qualified but low-hour locals when this was not the case 20 or so years ago so that they just don't need expats as much.

Just think about some outsider coming to work where you live to get an idea of what you are up against in the job market. Would a low-time foreigner get a job? Why?

Another thing is that working in many places just is not that well paid compared to staying home especially when you look at the levels of risk. Check out the "advice to travellers" section of your government's website to see what we are talking about.

Anyway, good luck in your job search.
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