Boars still alive

[drogon]

1 hour ago, Mekong said:

Long time no see mare, last I remember you was when you had to take a rain check on hooking up in Madrid (The City in Spain not the old bar in Patpong) due to an incident with a car resulting in a broken leg if I remember correctly .

Yeah I still am (slightly) limping thanks to that idiot. Left Spain in 2012 and have been working in Brussels since (with very occasional trips to other European locations of the company).

@Old Hippie if you do go to France, Germany I am next door (no plan going to the UK anytime soon thanks to  UK's border force stupidity.

[drogon]

On 2/22/2024 at 1:20 PM, Mekong said:

Long time no see mare, last I remember you was when you had to take a rain check on hooking up in Madrid (The City in Spain not the old bar in Patpong) due to an incident with a car resulting in a broken leg if I remember correctly .

Are you now retired or do you still go around the world?

[Mekong]

20 minutes ago, drogon said:

Are you now retired or do you still go around the world?

After Madrid / sorting the shit out in Thailand, I did a few months work in the UK, mainly to be around for my Fathers 80th Birthday which I am glad of since he passed away a couple of years back just short of 90.

Then I had a good 6 years spell working in Vietnam, not Ha Noi or Ho Chi Minh,  a a city  in the North called Thai Binh just South of Hai Phong and Halong Bay, enjoyed my time there best country I have ever worked in, and there have been many.

Been taking it easy the past 4 years or so, keeping head down during Covid as well as recovering from a major illness, probably start looking for work again in a few months, still learning to walk again muscles tend to turn to shit when stuck in bed for a few years 555.

Retired, I wish, still only in my 50’s (just, I turn 60 in 3 weeks time) a few years of work left in me yet and need to make up for the “Lost Years”

[drogon]

10 hours ago, Mekong said:

After Madrid / sorting the shit out in Thailand, I did a few months work in the UK, mainly to be around for my Fathers 80th Birthday which I am glad of since he passed away a couple of years back just short of 90.

Then I had a good 6 years spell working in Vietnam, not Ha Noi or Ho Chi Minh,  a a city  in the North called Thai Binh just South of Hai Phong and Halong Bay, enjoyed my time there best country I have ever worked in, and there have been many.

Been taking it easy the past 4 years or so, keeping head down during Covid as well as recovering from a major illness, probably start looking for work again in a few months, still learning to walk again muscles tend to turn to shit when stuck in bed for a few years 555.

Retired, I wish, still only in my 50’s (just, I turn 60 in 3 weeks time) a few years of work left in me yet and need to make up for the “Lost Years”

Guess you are getting better and itching to move after getting bed ridden for so long.

Glad you enjoyed Vietnam, I did not enjoy it at all (been there once only with a colleague whose wife is Vietnamese) which surprised me given the beauty of many Vietnamese women.

Where do you think you might retire?

[Mekong]

4 hours ago, drogon said:

Where do you think you might retire?

Definitely Thailand, I have been here / been based here over 30 years now, more than half my life.

[Mekong]

8 hours ago, drogon said:

Glad you enjoyed Vietnam, I did not enjoy it at all

I think the difference being was that you were a tourist looking at Vietnam through tourist eyes where as I was working there and viewed Vietnam through the eyes of someone on an overseas assignment, our expectations differed greatly.

I have worked in many Shit holes including a Saudi Qatar, Libya and even the USA so the bar for comparison was set extremely low. 
Reasons why I ranked it higher than Spain include closer to Bangkok, Cheaper cost of living and on Married Status, having a partner with you when overseas makes it a lot mere tolerable.

 

[drogon]

On 2/27/2024 at 5:18 AM, Mekong said:

I think the difference being was that you were a tourist looking at Vietnam through tourist eyes where as I was working there and viewed Vietnam through the eyes of someone on an overseas assignment, our expectations differed greatly.

I have worked in many Shit holes including a Saudi Qatar, Libya and even the USA so the bar for comparison was set extremely low. 
Reasons why I ranked it higher than Spain include closer to Bangkok, Cheaper cost of living and on Married Status, having a partner with you when overseas makes it a lot mere tolerable.

 

Yeah, you are right, as usual being a tourist or working/living there is a different perspective.

When do you think you will work again? Any idea of where that might be?

[Mekong]

1 hour ago, drogon said:

Yeah, you are right, as usual being a tourist or working/living there is a different perspective.

When do you think you will work again? Any idea of where that might be?

Not quite sure when yet, but hopefully in 2-3 months time, just have to keep exercising and build the energy levels up.

As for where, who knows? I was offered a job last month in South Korea, similar to what I did in Spain working as Project Management Resident Engineer in Contractors design office representing Saudi Aramco, they are extending the refinery I was part of in Spain. Big projects have different parts designed globally I.e Spain, Italy, UK, Korea, Singapore, but it was a bit too early in my recovery to consider.

I haven't flagged up to people that I am looking  /  available for work yet, so will know more when I tell the world I am back in play again.

Where ever it may be will have to be somewhere I can take the wife, only married status jobs from here on in

[drogon]

Great, like we don't have enough problems with Russia these days they even need to advertise crap here....in freaking Cyrillic, would it kill those people to write in English....

 

 

[Coss]

that ahem, poster, was previously warned and is now MIA.