Why we choose careers that dont make us happy - Continuation.

Consequent to my marriage 2 years ago , I moved to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. Now here I had to face a different environment altogether. Here none of the big conglomerates take you directly on their payrolls in their Information Technology department. They take you on as a software consultant. Now unlike western countries where consultants are paid more than the regular staff, here in Dubai a consultant is quite the straight opposite.You have to toil on an average of 3 years to get onto the direct payrolls of any company here and even then you are not guaranteed the post of a Senior Software Engineer, which is normally given to a person with 3 years experience in India. Most probably you will be placed on par with the fresh engineering college graduates from BITS Pilani Dubai (basically children of filthy rich gulf expats) and the like.All the perks of a permanent job including accomodation and bonus eludes you and you will be made to wonder why you ever came here in the 1st place. And as if all this werent enough most of the expatriates (me included) live in a place called Sharjah which is just about 10kms from Dubai but takes about 2-3 hours to reach one way!!Why do we stay here? Because Dubai is ill-affordable to Consultants like us. So a bad job coupled with terrible transportation killed the remaining little interest that I already had in working in an IT company in Dubai. So why am I stil here, to kill time, make money and get as de-motivated as possible.I dont know whether I had any aim in my career at all.Why not just call this all off and quit?That definitely is better thing to do............(To be concluded)

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