[gwmss15]

I have a major choice of career path a head in the next 6 months
which is better of the below choices is better in terms of post peak oil world?
which place will be better to ride out the effects of peak oil crash in?

hear are my choices:
1. take up an Auditing job in a government audit office in melbourne australia
2. take up a teaching job at an international or government school in thailand this is in bangkok
both are long term and i currently have no debts to pay off

however the auditing job requires a lot of travel by train and tram every day and often involves long hours in an office. my family lifes in melbourne and is of a engneering background

the teaching job is basied in bangkok thailand and may involve long train rides My boyfriend lives in thailand and comes from a farming background. his mum has a farm about 10 hours train ride from bangkok

the audit job is higher paying than the teaching job by about double manily to do with exhange rates

however i perfer the thailand job more before anyone makes a comment iam a gay guy
p.s both jobs are in major cities but melbourne has a very large electric tram and train network over 2000km of it bangkok has electic metro trains and is buliding more every year but a lot of buses and long distanance trains powered by oil directly

[mindfarkk]

my first thought is, where does each job get its funding. if you are thinking job security, i would tend to assume that the teaching job would get cut first (that's how things are laid out here, but it may be different in bangkok!). i'm thinking that as money gets tight, auditors may be used more, not less.

both jobs entail long commutes it sounds like so about equal there.

[savethehumans]

His mom has a FARM?!

If this wasn't in Thailand (military/political dictatorship with lots of rebels out there in the jungle), I'd say this was a no-brainer. After all, whatever happens, we've all gotta EAT....the jungle may have a lot of holistic-type plants for medicine (not to mention fruits, nuts, and veggies), and everyone there probably already knows how to live a simple, sustainable lifestyle. Maybe there's even a village/area share-and-share alike plan. You know--COMMUNITY working together stuff?

Forget about funding being cut off--that's gonna happen anyway, everywhere, every type of business. And Australia's long since overshot its population in the limited habitable areas of the continent (unless the aborigines can teach you how to live, but that'd be quite a leap for a spoiled rotten Westerner like you or me!).

Except for the political/military situation, Thailand wouldn't be such a bad place. Unfortunately, the situation's there, and the people in the jungles/countryside/villages are gonna be caught in a crossfire that's gonna be bloody, merciless, and full of refugees who'll spread the die-off germs to YOU.

Sure you can't find something in, say, rural Canada, or Scandanavia? There's no safe place, of course, but the odds might be better there....

[gwmss15]

audit job gets it funding from state government

teaching from thai govenment or the students

so everyone reconmends that thailand and australia are not good places to be in a post peak world.

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$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('savethehumans', '
')If this wasn't in Thailand (military/political dictatorship with lots of rebels out there in the jungle), I'd say this was a no-brainer. After all, whatever happens, we've all gotta EAT....the jungle may have a lot of holistic-type plants for medicine (not to mention fruits, nuts, and veggies)

[gwmss15]

thank you very much i have been with my boyfriend for 15 months now and i spend a few weeks with him in bangkok in feb 2004 and the love is there and still is and we intend to live to gether in thailand but bangkok is very likely but it could also be country area to the north east of bangkok