Independent contractor (Iraq)

[HopeydaFish]

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Wow, astro takes the cake for classiest response.

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I disagree...a picture is worth a thousand words. If the OP doesn't think that there's a chance that he'll end up like the poor guy in that picture, he clearly hasn't thought this out enough. A few $$$ isn't worth possibly getting beheaded and/or shot over, IMHO.

Oh, and if you want to teach in a foreign country (Iraq or otherwise), be *very* *very* careful about which company you go work for. I had a friend who was scammed by a company in South Korea, and he learned later on that these sorts of scams are commonplace. What happened is that he signed a contract that paid him a pittance but promised a big bonus if he worked the whole contract. The contract was for a year. He worked for 11 1/2 months and then they terminated him without cause or explanation. He was a dolt for not seeing this coming, but he was doing it for the experience mostly, and ended up finding work fairly quickly back in the west when he came home, so it wasn't a total loss.