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bartonbank

My wife and myself are in our mid 40s, kids 'grown up', and are seriously looking at moving to Dubai.

I would be looking for a senior role in publishing, but my real question is, do you think that my age would work against me, or would my (25 years)experience be valued?

bartonbank

Thanks, that's useful to know.

I was more concerned about the attitude of employers. Do they tend to prefer to employ younger single staff, or maybe people with young families?

Is it common for middle aged couples such as ourselves to move to Dubai?

bartonbank

Get her into marketing and PR. Fair looks and speaking skills are in demand in that field. Hahah. Skills are in demand too!!!! Massive shortage of skilled marketers in this place. Could have fooled me - I'm an experienced Sales & Marketing Director and haven't had any interest from the jobs to ...

bartonbank

I appreciate the feedback - I have been attempting to target marketing vacancies in other fields but to no avail. I'm not giving up!

bartonbank

Hi

I've been offered a job in DMC at the equivalent of £35,000.

What sort of standard of living would that give me over there, assuming I would want to rent a 2 bedroom flat in a decent (subjective I know) area of the city close to DMC?

Cheers

BB

bartonbank

erm may I suggest you have a trawl through the expat help section as questions like this have been answered to death recently. Thanks, you're right, the expat help section gave me some good advice. Reading between the lines, and having visited this forum this time last year, it does appear that Dub...

bartonbank

bonk wrote:Quick bit of advice supplied

Great if per month, ok-good if per year.

Unfortunately it's per year!

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Does age matter?

Is a 35000 GBP sallary enought in Dubai?

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