Is Cambodia a career killer?
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Is Cambodia a career killer?
it was interesting to hear Bubble T talking about heading home after 12 years and it got me wondering if having many years experience in even a good job in Cambodia is a possible obstacle to career development if you do decide to go home.
Has anyone had a good career here and extended or built upon it back home or is Cambodia a career hiccup?
Has anyone had a good career here and extended or built upon it back home or is Cambodia a career hiccup?
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I have not tried so far, but I'm pretty sure for most employers an extended time in Cambomdia is a major one. My sector is education. Might be different in other sectors?This Charming Man wrote:it was interesting to hear Bubble T talking about heading home after 12 years and it got me wondering if having many years experience in even a good job in Cambodia is a possible obstacle to career development if you do decide to go home.
Has anyone had a good career here and extended or built upon it back home or is Cambodia a career hiccup?
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Depends on your age and time spent here. Many modern middle class 20 somethings have post-college breaks for 1+ years. Older people have 'career breaks' for a few years, too.
I think the tipping point is more than 2 years. By that point you've settled down in Cambodia and become a 'lifer' or employers are suspicious about why you have spent such a great amount of time in a place they view as a hedonist holiday destination.
As for excelling in the field, I think a few of the aid workers who've spent part of their twenties here have gone on to rise in the career market. Anyone older than about 35 has probably bought out of that world already by moving to Cambodia.
I think the tipping point is more than 2 years. By that point you've settled down in Cambodia and become a 'lifer' or employers are suspicious about why you have spent such a great amount of time in a place they view as a hedonist holiday destination.
As for excelling in the field, I think a few of the aid workers who've spent part of their twenties here have gone on to rise in the career market. Anyone older than about 35 has probably bought out of that world already by moving to Cambodia.
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That sounds like a money sink. If they demand tea money for routine border stamps I'd hate to know what scams they have for that. Buy a clean record?Gin&Tonic wrote:Just remember, before you leave Cambodia get a criminal record check done by the ministry of justice. They can be difficult and expensive to acquire once outside Cambodia.
It didn't hinder my career. It didn't boost it either. I worked in a (legit) international school in Phnom Penh. When I applied for a top international school in Singapore, they were more interested in what I had achieved as a teacher, the fact that I stayed for the length of my contract and that I had solid references rather than the location I was in.
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Not at all. It's $60 for normal turnaround and $120 or thereabouts for quick turnaround. I have done it recently and it's a very simple process. There is a thread about it in Q&A which outlines the process clearly.penisjokeforaname wrote:That sounds like a money sink. If they demand tea money for routine border stamps I'd hate to know what scams they have for that. Buy a clean record?Gin&Tonic wrote:Just remember, before you leave Cambodia get a criminal record check done by the ministry of justice. They can be difficult and expensive to acquire once outside Cambodia.
My career came to a sudden stop after arriving in Cambodia, luckily it has never recovered. I went to the dole office the other day to thank them for putting $78 in my account two days after I returned. When I asked if they wanted to know about my absence she said they dont care. Just keep pushing that button every two weeks and the money will resume she said. What a wonderful country this is.
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Your Career Here
Bangkok: Greasy Pole Press, 2017 p 64
from: My Brilliant Career in Kampuchea and other poems by Rib Stake, PhD.
Having a career
is a career killer.
You can shove
my career
up your ass,
or I can shove
your career
up my ass.
As long as you are
healthy a career
don't mean shit.
No offense or anything.
(I don't think it
made sense anyway.)
Slide down the side
using your balls as a break,
or whatever that
stupid saying goes.
Tits and fannys.
Bangkok: Greasy Pole Press, 2017 p 64
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A cousin of mine spent a period of time in Cambodia & other far flung worldly parts then studied at Uni. (Generous per diem in Cambo etc. financed uni.)
Cosy sinecure in .gov followed.
Always possible, often happens to others though.
Cosy sinecure in .gov followed.
Always possible, often happens to others though.
The moment you want a job back in the west, requiring a (high) security clearance, forget it.
Such a security clearance will fail on the fact, you have been living for more then 3 months in a country where your local NSA equivalent won't exchange information with (and as such will not be able to obtain security relevant information about you).
As such, you will have a "gap" of 3+ months in your security history, which precludes you from obtaining the required security clearance. Job unreachable ....
This aspect is a pita for pilots flying in the middle east for one of the big middle east carriers. Because of the totalitarian and human rights violating regimes around there, these people have big problems to obtain a flying job outside the sandbox in a more civilized world for a western carrier, requiring a security clearance. It's not entirely impossible, though very difficult.
Such a security clearance will fail on the fact, you have been living for more then 3 months in a country where your local NSA equivalent won't exchange information with (and as such will not be able to obtain security relevant information about you).
As such, you will have a "gap" of 3+ months in your security history, which precludes you from obtaining the required security clearance. Job unreachable ....
This aspect is a pita for pilots flying in the middle east for one of the big middle east carriers. Because of the totalitarian and human rights violating regimes around there, these people have big problems to obtain a flying job outside the sandbox in a more civilized world for a western carrier, requiring a security clearance. It's not entirely impossible, though very difficult.
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What's your country of citizenship, if you don't mind me asking? Curious, to be honest, as I'm not quite agreeing with you. Or are you taking aviation specific, or general national-level clearances? TS/SBI, etc.?v12 wrote:The moment you want a job back in the west, requiring a (high) security clearance, forget it.
Such a security clearance will fail on the fact, you have been living for more then 3 months in a country where your local NSA equivalent won't exchange information with (and as such will not be able to obtain security relevant information about you).
As such, you will have a "gap" of 3+ months in your security history, which precludes you from obtaining the required security clearance. Job unreachable ....
This aspect is a pita for pilots flying in the middle east for one of the big middle east carriers. Because of the totalitarian and human rights violating regimes around there, these people have big problems to obtain a flying job outside the sandbox in a more civilized world for a western carrier, requiring a security clearance. It's not entirely impossible, though very difficult.
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I don't see how a few years in Cambodia will necessarily kill your career but really it depends on the career and how young you are.
Cambodia is more likely to kill you than your career. Sihanoukville and heart attack being the 2 leading causes of death. I have not seen PrahocalypseNow list career as the cause of death yet.WatchTheGrass wrote:I don't see how a few years in Cambodia will necessarily kill your career but really it depends on the career and how young you are.
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