WHERE DO I SEND MY RESUME?! ;-)
Meanwhile, Michael Moore was on the roof at Soho House last night, where I was hanging with some friends. That man has a widescreen butt, fortunately it was at night so he wasn't there to tan.
Too bad I won't get to see Fahrenheit 9/11 since it comes out the day after I leave this fair city, and I highly doubt it would play in Kuwait anytime soon.. or ever!! Hitchens gave it a real thrashing in Slate, but I still want to see it.
"WHERE DO I SEND MY RESUME?! ;-)," you ask. Just pass it around in Soho House a bit. That place is full of media types, fashionistas and most of all Upper East Side finance dudes who need a place to hang out downtown. Incidentally the hiring market in New York is quite robust again, ever since the stock market came back up.
ReplyDeleteThe real question is: What did you intend to do as a career? I realize this is a challenging question for some Kuwaitis as the most common choice over there is more like "what government post would you like to sit in at high pay and light daily working hours?" In NY, people work very hard and long hours but this is the center of the (economic) world. What type of management are you studying - just general MBA? Or something more specific? Did you want to be a journalist, as you seem to enjoy writing? The news-bureaus here are desperate right now for people who speak arabic and understand the middle-east region. I am sure with the right connections (and if I am right about our mutual contact in Kuwait then I am sure you have plenty) you could even get a job as a researcher/news producer for the American Jihad Channel (lol). Naturally these jobs don't initially pay an enormous amount but a little sacrifice at the outset reaps big rewards later. And if you are just good with microsoft excel, maybe you can get a nice post at the KIO's New York office? Then you could probably even afford the rent on a real (not like the ones on the FRIENDS tv show) Manhattan apartment.
I'm sure you get the idea. Getting a job won't be a terrible problem. Now as to that H1 or J1 visa, well . . . that's another story.
-NYC guy
I don't think he wants to work as a journalist. It's funny though about your reference to the Jihad and Communist channels. We have a similar one: C(ommunist) B(ugger) C(rap), and C(rush) T(he) V(eterans).
ReplyDeleteSo Ibn, should I assume you are from North (of) America? Yes, the one party political situation in Canada is very sad. I have inherited 5 Canadian employees from the Social(ist) Welfare State in the past 2 years - they work very hard and they think I am paying them a lot, since they are used to those Canadian Pesos they used to get.
ReplyDeleteTry to stay warm up there,
NYC
(you are not Ibn Warraq, are you?)
Hello again. Yes I'm from the North and I live to east of Smokey Bear. Those are the details that will escape the brains of the hunters. And no, I'm not Ibn Warraq. The little "ibn" is just the short thing for my internet name: variously as Ibn Rushd, and ibn_rushd2.
ReplyDeleteAs to our master of the board, zeydoun, I was unaware of any Kuwaitis' availability of the internet or that they were evolved.
this comment is for u "ibn" => Ouch! why the demeaning look on Kuwaitis?
ReplyDeleteA Kuwaiti in Canada
I was going to put more into that comment, but I ate dinner and played some games and went to bed and forgot that I was going to. Anyway, what the "evolved" statement means is: our blogger here is not out in the boonies, he has a computer and job and travels; he is not calling for the killing of all the Jooooooooz, so that means he doesn't listen to the mullahs/gov't; he appears to be agnostic or even atheist, a dangerous combo in a place so close to Saudi.
ReplyDeleteDoes that help? I don't hate Kuwaitis. In fact I thought it was sparse and unpopulated until I found our blogger friend here and decided to find some more about the country. I found out that it is "the most modern" country in it's region.
And to our new buddy from Kuwait, welcome to Canada. I was not aware that we had an appeal to you guys. What brought you here? Job?
My impression of Kuwait based on some long friendships with a few real q8E's is that basically the al sabahs and the wealthy merchants are quite liberal minded, the (lower) middle classes and the bedus are very saudi-wahabi influenced. The al sabahs & merchants all do their studies in the US (or UK or Canada if necessary) and develop a pretty good appetite for American culture (including football & basketball), technology, music, movies, (did you know the most popular radio station in Kuwait is a facsimile of the highest rated Pop station in Washington DC?), booze, vegas, girls, freedom, womens rights etc.. One only need to notice the fact that the taking of multiple wives is much rarer among the royals and rich in kuwait than among the ordinary folk. This is not the case in Saudi, Sudan, Yemen, et. al.. It is more so the case in the UAE, etc.. I correspond with my kuwaiti friends all the time on aol instant messenger, email - some of them even look at this blog from time to time. Zaydoun, by the way, is clearly not a poor fellow. The Soho house, management courses in New York, all expensive propositions. It shouldn't surprise you that he is from the liberal minded, high tech oriented group.
ReplyDeleteCheers,
NYC
PS - don't get me wrong, I'm just as pissed, maybe even more-so, as my fellow NYC neighbors that there was a kuwaiti islamist, whose country we f&*king saved, among the 19 simians who murdered 3,000 of my friends, acquaintances, and others 2 1/2 years ago.
Hi it's me again,
ReplyDeleteSorry to disappoint u both (ibn and NYC) but i didn't "develop a pretty good appetite for American culture (including football & basketball), technology, music, movies, booze, vegas, girls, freedom, womens rights etc." Don't get me wrong, I do admire some things, but in many things/ways I'd rather stick to my own culture (which does not include multiple wives BTW). I studied both in the US and Canada.
there seems to be a misunderstanding between being a religious Muslim and "islamists". Islamists usually hate the USA/West and whachamakalum jooooooz? and use religion as a political tool, basically they are bin ladin's cronies. We have some highly religious people in Kuwait who r AGAINST bin Ladin and AGAINST the bombings going on in Saudi right now and basically terrorism (including suicide bombings all over the world).
In a nutshell:
-sticking to religion correctly = not bad at all
-Majority of Kuwaitis DO NOT hate USA (compared to other Arab countries).
A Kuwaitia in Canada
Canada Kuwaiti,
ReplyDeleteAre you an al-sabah? If you are then you are proving my point of course - even if you are a 'religious' muslim, (which I generally take to mean at least 1 prayer per day and daytime fasting through as much of ramadan as you can possibly deal with, trying to do the "right" thing most of the time, and so on . . ) the fact that you are in dar-al-harb and not rushing to leave (or create a revolution of course) makes you what I would call liberal minded. I highly doubt that you refuse to listen to britney spears on the radio (unless of course you just think bubble-gum pop music sucks and in that case linkin park will do you just fine) once in a while, even if you avoid champagne, blackjack and delicious bacon [frankly that one is really a shame to miss - if you are going to break any rules, rush out and get some pork chops ASAP!]. And hey, the longer you stay up in moose land the more the surrounding elements of western culture will gradually get to you and by the time you get back to Kuwait I am sure you will be looking for an occasional hockey game on your satellite TV.
My question is this: if the al-sabahs run the place, and they are basically more liberal than most, why not just declare some more liberal laws and tell the local islamists to deal with it or move on down to dar al Saud?
Dearest Anonymous,
ReplyDeleteWow! You?re on top of things about what?s religious and what?s liberal.
Guess what? I?ve done the time already, a few years in North America (including ?moose land?) DID NOT rub on me. Sorry to disappoint u again!
And the music? I stopped listening to ANY kind of music. I pray 5 times a day and try my best to do more (surprised?).
I see you are one of those people who love to shove your culture on ?people like me? (the pork chop thing = not tempting). I personally like the Canadian mentality; they don?t impose their culture on me, in addition to being very friendly. That does not mean I?d like to live in Canada (or any other country that is not my beloved Kuwait).
PS I?m not al-Sabah (another misguided presumption from u), and causing revolutions is against my religion. Our rules are generally fine, why impose rules that are not OUR culture? Why do u always think yr way is right? The way I see it? there is no right or wrong, it?s just what suits u does not suit us, diversity is good (isn?t that what America stands for?).
Kuwaitia in Canada