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All the stuff in the news about Hurricane or Tropical Storm or Whatever Cindy has left me wanting to yell 'Marsha Marsha Marsha!', even though it's the wrong Brady-name. There, I've said it.

More importantly, it's made me realize... this is the first hurricane season in six years when I haven't been hovering in front of a television or news feed of some kind, cursing when I didn't hear a weather report. I'm not responsible for marking anything on a map, or opening a new fund to hold hurricane-related money, or anything like that. I have no chance of winding up in a smelly hotel in Louisiana for three weeks at a stretch, or being asked to drive a huge clumsy truck over a thousand miles, or...

It's so weird to see hurricane season from a civilian's point of view.

Date: 2005-07-05 07:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] firestrike.livejournal.com
Do you miss it?

-M

Date: 2005-07-05 08:23 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] sdelmonte
You still probably had the same thought I did:

"Ah, crap, not again!"

Date: 2005-07-07 09:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kelathefinn.livejournal.com
You know 'Q' is now doing relief work in the tsunami affected area. Agencies like the Red Cross pay really good money for people who do work like that. You'd be great at it. Have you ever considered it?

Date: 2005-07-07 04:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kelathefinn.livejournal.com
Sweetheart, volunteers get paid expenses. I'm talking about the INTERNATIONAL Red Cross, which hires people for PROJECTS and programmes. At least in Europe, you register for their list of 'experts' in various things (I'm translating literally, I don't know what the USA calls this list, or pool), you take the courses they organise in International Relief and in project management, and you wait. Eventually they call you up for a project, you go, they pay you well, they look after you well, you get a salary, pension, health scheme, etc., (not for dependents usually, but you don't have any dependents at the moment), but conditions are of course terrible where you are going and the work is tough. You would be ideal for it, IMHO. Doctors Without Borders is another place, as is the UN - not the UN Volunteers, but the UN Projects. However, you seem happy enough where you are, and that is the most important thing. I, on the other hand, would give my eye teeth to be working in a relief project like Q is, rather than being a parasite on society.

Date: 2005-07-07 04:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kelathefinn.livejournal.com
The salary is usually so good that a LOT of people buy a house or flat, which they rent out during their project time, and pay off the mortgage with their salary. You don't spend a lot of money in a disaster area, and the tents and latrines are provided... AND, you ALWAYS these days have internet access via mobile phone. Q is cut off for 12 days now, since he'll be evaluating conditions in the worst hit areas, but he HAS been promised that as soon as he sets up his base in the area he will have internet access. Communications are necessary. That's where YOU might come in.

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