Ok. You decided the Project Manager you
want to be, the house you would like to live in and your level of involvement.
Now you have to choose, if you are in the
position to, your social activities rate.
If you are new, forget about South America
or South East Asia. However good are your intentions, you do not deserve them. You
must had work for at least ten years in difficult places before being enough in
the system to beg for a job in Thailand or Costa Rica.
Unless you don’t apply for a mission in the
middle of Cambodian forest, waking up at five for prayers.
If you are still thinking you are in a mission
in the name if God, like the Blues Brothers, you can go everywhere, and you’ll
be happy, completed and satisfied. Especially eating beetles and rice in a
muddy corner of the world with no electricity.
If you are one of those coming from a
country with more than 20% unemployment rate for people with master degree, PhD
and fluency in five languages, well, if you get a job, just say ‘thanks’,
wherever will be.
But, if you are still dreaming of choosing,
here you are a lonely planet you’d never dreamed of:
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Wherever is a UN mission with
JBOs or UNVs, there is the party. Is the volunteers bringing it. They choose a
bar as the ‘real-integrating-place’ and magically, it becomes the expat&goodlooking
locals bar. This is, for example, Kenya: you can go in the slums during the day
and in a japonese restaurant at seven ad feel satisfied.
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If you prefer to interact with
expats, go in the trouble places (Congo, Afghanistan, Pakistan and so on). You
can close yourself –whites- in compounds and be happy to be isolated. And with
a lonely bottle of bad wine you can make a party.
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Also if you’d never had a
chance to have a girlfriend in your home town (for whatever reason), so it’s
better you go to one of this terrible places (South Sudan, Colombia). The fact
that you are there, will increase your sex appeal, the choice is limited and
you fill find a girl thinking you are not too bad.
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If you are one of these
bastards who are taking advance of being white to have the easy fuck...well you
can go everywhere, but it’s better if you go to screw yourself, that I've met
too much mulatto kids with no father.
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If you are looking for your
mate. For the life long, I mean, someone smart, adventurer like you, good
worker and committed, sometimes drunk and sometimes philosopher, you first have to deserve it, so go to work
with all your spirit and you must believe on what you are doing. Otherwise
you’ll only meet empty souls.
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If you’d like to be Buddhist or
committed in religious or human rights stuff, go to Tibet or –non plus ultra-
Israel. But no kidding. Do not go only
to see if you are not prepared to wide open your eyes. No tourist allowed,
everybody needs their dignity.
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If you are stupid, you can go
everywhere. After two weeks, you will be taking swaili lessons, dressing with
the sari, going for dinner in the slums, putting flowers in your hair, stopping
combing you, feeling like one of them. You are not one of them. That’s why they
gave you a job. To give them something that makes them closer to one of you. If
you do not understand it, you’ll be home as soon as your contract expires.
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If you do not mind where they send you, and
you do not feel the need to googleise your destination, well, that’s the last
stage of you initiation. You go for work. Alone, eighteen hours by car from the
first bar, no hospital, no English speakers, no electricity, no water. And you
don’t mind. You are young, single and committed. As I was ten years ago.
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If you have wife and children,
unfortunately you start to have a shortlist, and all the countries with more
requests are precluded. No Haiti, no Sudan, no Afghanistan and no Congo. Even
if the 50% of the job is there. And so you will start again to work again for
the minimum salary, because they know you MUST take that job exactly in THAT
country (Tanzania, for example is not bad but not brilliant, Nepal is fine, and
of course the Beautiful Countries). Like the NGOs were companies. Sometimes
they are.
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