Toughest job in Qatar?

Sounds awful cabbage, but I still think it would be worse to be a male road labourer working in this heat and separated from his family for two years at a time (and living in a worker camp). A lot of these guys have good qualifications from their home countries and speak excellent English--it's just that working on a road pays more.

there's always openings for gynecologists my friend... in fact, the openings don't close... but then again, you'd be just like a pizza delivery guy.

The job that gets no salary at the end of the month.

That is me.

I do not get a salary (at the moment) but I work 13/14 hours a day usually but with a few breaks of course, so to be honest 11/12 hours.

I may not be 20 floors up on a constructions site; but I am in school playgrounds when it is bloody hot. I sit in classrooms that have no AC which is *rap for the little ones but also for me.

I work usually from 07:15 to 13.15 in the schools then home to carry on.

I come home most days with scratches, bites, had even a couple of black eyes, been spat at and been abused.

That is of course 'part of my job'. However, it is taken for granted that I will tolerate this.

We can all be taken for granted here.

We White westerners can get a raw deal too.

By the way - my husband works 14 hour days at best, 6 days a week, travels at least every week and with his 'real qualifications and experience' does not get the money he deserves. Like many over here.

However, could we go back to the UK and survive?

I would have to go back into teaching at a high level and we could not guarantee that - so we shut up and put up with the knowledge, we have a job and food is on the table.

I suggest with the world as it is at the moment with the recession - so do you.

i can understand your feelinsg khattak,spend most of ur time standing out of malls & security dont let you in.

I'm altering my answer to include bus driver for an all-boys, Qatari-dominated school. Following one home this afternoon I saw in the space of five minutes: three fights (one especially violent with two boys pummeling a third), virtually no one seated, things flying, etc. The driver looked like he was in hell. If this is typical run for him, then he deserves to be ranked here; if it is atypical, it's time for the school to hire a better driver.

Toughest jobs are of the security guards at the local shopping malls... especially on family days.

I always wanted to be a gynaecologist. Do you know if there are any suitable openings ?

Toughest job must be working with idiots around you pretending they know all and can't deliver but keep making promises.

all outdoor jobs are tough in qatar because of the hot weather but it becomes tougher when ur salary is limited to 600QR which will have to be enough for food monthly expanses and for ur family back in ur paternal country and and and .... so i guess the low paid labors working on sites under the sun are having the toughest jobs ever. 12 hours a day (eventhough its illegal), rice all the month, hot unhealthy water all the day ...

I will rather say construction over all its really hard to be at 50 degree in open with PPEz and it get even worse when humidity comes in to play

After a today like today, anyone working outside gets my vote.

toughest job in doha is to supervise/check one who cheats on you, double-cross you.

..how the official temperature is measured!

by a thermometer kept in the shade about 1 meter above lawn(grass).

My eyes did pop out when I first heard about it..

Toughest job is being a security man in a building in Doha. They have nothing to do...and no place to sit. Must be dead boring!

the LP In Constrictions and Roadworks It's Not work ,here it's suffering under heat over 40 C in daytime.

Marcy for them

toughest job is to pull someone's leg at work, :(

WK--but drinking all that tea in between isn't easy.

I worked outdoors during whole of August couple of years back and since then I really respect the construction workers a lot.. It was hell and while I was drinking something cold every few minutes, most of them weren't eating or drinking anything either as it was Ramadan.

Easiest job??? hmmmm how about the ones working in QNOC. Hire a consultant, tell him we have to bid for the next big event and then relax for couple of years. Then when the next bidding process starts, hire another consultants and so on and so forth..

Yep, they also probably keep the official thermometer in the A/C.

I am also convinced, frenchieman, that there are lots of frauds in Qatar. Even the 'official' temperature never goes over 50 degrees, although it does. And the law would impose a halt to any work outside.

LP--I am convinced the managers of some of these guys don't have a thermometer that goes above 40 degrees, so that no matter how hot it is, it is never higher than 40 degrees, so no need to break for heat. ;-)

Or should that be third Frenchieman. No doubt these guys have it the toughest..God have mercy on them! Oh but I must say LP's choice must find it real hard too..yikes!

I'll go by frenchieman...

Being a Gynecologist.

Of course, frenchie, the violations are just not 'reported'!

LP--and those laws are always followed.

Being the Moderator of QL is the easiest job! =P

There are laws for working outside in the summer. I think the toughest job is preparing Qataris for the IELTS or SAT exams if they don't speak English at all!

Toughest are the guys working road construction in the daytime in this heat and dust. The long-term health implications for these guys (if they survive the job) are severe.