Terminator IV

Economic crisis, recession, rising unemployment. We've been hearing these terms in the news for so long now that they have almost lost all meaning, but for somethe true scale of the situation is not revealed until it affects someone close to them, someone they care so much for and would do anything to help out. Well, you can all put yourself into that category now because I, your humble blogger have just been made redundant. 

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That's right, your's truly is the latest and most important victim in the worldwide economic crisis. Looks like I'll be leaving the sunny featureless deserts of the UAE and returning to Oz. I'll have some big decisions to make in my life. Either I can sit around all day for the next six months watching TV in nothing but my jocks, or I can buy some sort of robe. 

Ah unemployment. I haven't been unemployed since I finished Uni in 2001. Even then it was on purpose. I had just spend four and a half years at being a student and didn't want to rush into a nine-to-five just yet. In the end Centrelink kept threatening to make me attend job search training where, after having finished my Computer Systems Engineering degree, I was to learn Microsoft Office so I bit the bullet and got a job. But I still remember those halcyon days. 

I wonder if things will be different this time around. Marijuana will be more expensive I expect, and social networking will allow me to keep you all updated with how my life is progressing. 

Sam Cox said "Off to bunnings for some strong rope"

But I haven't left here just yet. My one month's notice period is up at the end of this month. At that time, in the caring tradition of the UAE, my visa will be canceled, my bank accounts frozen and I will have one month to leave the country. But it's not too bad for me. It's the expats that have outstanding car or rental loans that start making inquires into the quietest way to get into Oman at this point. 

The UAE have rather simpler bankruptcy laws than Australia has. Here you simply go to jail until you can repay your debt, the assumption being presumably that it is not too difficult to get a full time job while being incarcerated. 

So, while I won't be back for a little while, keep the home fires burning and tell K-Rudd I'm coming for my $900. 

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