LIFE IN DUBAI - JOBS, SALARIES, RENTS, RELATIONSHIPS, SAVING MONEY AND MORE

hi everyone Vlad here for another video today's video is going to be kind of a recap of most of my videos will be talking about jobs grants Republic in my hands and we'll chop the rats relationships friendships medical saving money to buy basically the works so job wise in Dubai like you probably seen my other videos it's quite volatile what I mean by that is that job security is doing a nice few for you guys from back for my back can difficult so yeah job wise it's a it's a bit of the Far West in Dubai I must I must admit so I've known I know a lot of people and a lot of them are on under like second or third or even fourth job me and me myself have had maybe three or four jobs while have been in Dubai for five years yeah three three four so it's just to tell you that everyone in job market in Dubai is replaceable even even when you think everything is going right and you're hitting your targets and this and that for some random reason something happens that's not on your under your control and then you end up losing your job so obviously it's not too scary guys it's just the reality of Dubai that it's kind of like a transit like a trance transition place and people come and go all the time so people take jobs and lose jobs all the time it's just how it is people are either more qualifying you or for politics for real all the reasons pretty much so yeah that's regarding the job market that there's a lot of posting daily if you front linkedin or if you can look on website like bates AE you could look you know and you're probably you'll find something because it's just how how to buy is kind of like a revolving door I know it's kind of bad to say but yeah it's just how it is in Dubai regarding salaries really depends on your background and many years of experience you have don't expect if you're a freshman idol out of university to to get like you know twenty five thousand a month or even remotely close to that you need to you experience speaks for itself but I think above everything else the contacts is who do you know who who can kind of push for your route for you for you to get that job and get get the nice nice money at the end of it so yeah it's it really depends obviously if you're in the financial in a financial sector and your salary time will tend to be higher than someone who is like in HR or you know I get events and let's have a lot of experience in that field it really varies that if if you decide to take a freelancer job which is basically not a permanent job you'll tend to have a higher salary than someone has a permanent job what that also comes if you do have a permanent job you will have a visa medical and you know days of vacation and all that so it's kind of a trade-off either you want the freedom freelancer job can give you you know if you're on a six-month contract or whatnot or do you want the stability that a permanent job can give you maybe a lesser salary it's just how the how the market here works and there's no like real like grading scheme unless you're unless you're in a very like big corporate company I I feel speaking from experience that if you manage to kill the interview and if you manage to negotiate your salary that that that scale is kind of very imbalance like there's some people that just because you know they have an eye nice lock during the interview they'll get a higher salary and I mean to each other like I said if you can really kill the interview then then better for you if you manage to make a nice salary from it but yeah it is very so much even speaking from experience certain jobs that I thought I would be getting more I got a bit less in certain about I'll be getting less I got a bit more so yeah to buy so rents in Dubai it's kind of a weird place because it's the only place that I know of that you need to pay your rent for a wholly whole year in one go which which is very silly because you know if you come from if you're coming from another country and you want to start something in Dubai you tend not to have that much savings and it's kind of difficult to do that so it's it's it's better for you if you try to negotiate that you know my my rent personally it's it's I paid twice a year so every six months I pay the rent but I know some my friends sometimes they're lucky in the match to pay every two months but some others they just have to pay for the whole year in one go and that's just really how it is so that's why you see a lot of people sharing accommodation I'm sharing houses certain villa this and that to try to save money and just try to to avoid paying everything in one go because yeah it could definitely be difficult for for everyone really not just some people for for everyone and that's it doesn't really matter if you're in certain neighborhoods or not it's just how how it is here in Dubai regarding rents and now we get to a good part the relationships relationships in Dubai mm-hmm yeah it's it's it's not the best I mean I was in a relationship for yeah I'm not sure if I should say that or not but whatever I was a ship for about a year and a half and it ended very badly very poorly very bad way it was one of the one of the worst breakups I had it thought the worst I thought that I wouldn't be able to to beat my son my previous breakups but hey you know just life just just just proves you wrong once again you know there's there's always gonna be something worse there's always gonna be something better and for this time it was for the worst but yeah the dating scene Dubai's is just weird it's just very strange you feel like people are quite two-faced you feel like it's it's all that fake people invent themselves lives and invest in the same time invent lies about being super pessimistic here but it's just it's just how it is really everyone comes and go people don't really want to put in the effort there's always something better to do there's always someone else there's always another party to attend there's always another thing to do in Dubai is what I'm really trying to get at and it's very difficult for for people to you know put their guards down and actually try and be genuine with each other so I think the relationship seeing the dating sitting device is a big is a big mess I could go I could go on on for hours about the den exceedance stories and this and that but I already have made a video about relationships you guys want to check it out you can go more details there but just don't expect too much from it people are here mainly to pursue careers and I'll kind of be to bother with the whole relationship thing like hey let's do something no yes okay ciao bye so yeah it's it's a it's entertaining I guess but it's like it's just like a big fluff it's a big cloud there's no real like matter to it yeah I'll leave it on the hub for relationships you can you can ask me a question in the comment section below about that so for friendships it's kind of not the same as relationship obviously you're friends but since people always like come and go and I'll be myself goodbyes a transit kind of place and people you know either other families or other things to do so it's difficult to make like very like very meaningful friendships everybody has tons of friends like acquaintances and you see them yeah parties or you see them occasionally socially and even like with coworkers and all that you kind of see them every single day so you really want to see them like bar this and that it's it's got a difficult job yourself other things to do as well so it just becomes a city of people always have other things to do and it just becomes very difficult to make to make very good friends I mean I do have tons of friends but you know obviously I don't call them on a regular basis I don't check up on them all the time mostly friends from from soccer football depending on which continent you're you're on but very meaningful yeah not so much I mean I do keep in touch with most of my friends back home these are the ones you know I share all sort of stuff with but the people here even though I've been here five years I mean add some really good friends in the beginning that some of them left and the new people came I made friends with them that they left I left on vacation for a couple of months this and that so it's kind of hard to keep track with everyone really it's just it's just how it is saving money in Dubai I can't stress enough how important it is to save money in Dubai to not be spending every dime you make from your pay to always think ahead to keep money for a rainy day and was by but it does rain both physically and metaphorically I have friends that manage to save every single penny they make and have friends who manage not to save every single penny they make so if you manage to kind of be in the middle or more towards the side that you save a bit more money on then you're doing something right I have friends that spend 80% of salary on a villa on the palm I mean that's it's fantastic you mean yeah you get the view we get though the water you know waterfront and you get to canoe or kayak in the morning great but then you're you're stuck up your end of the month with no money in your pocket and people have been here for him years and they just don't change your lifestyle I get the whole Yolo and let's live in the moment and all that but the end day if you're in Dubai you're not saving money like quite a bit of money you you're you're doing something wrong and that's whether you're making six thousand a month or whether you sit or you're making fifty thousand every month you should be able to you know kind of stay in your financial lane and and not do anything too crazy and you should be able to save to save you most of your salary obviously depend if your family if you have kids if you have you know that's not that I'm not saying everybody everybody has to do it but nobody is here nobody stays here forever so once you go back home or to another destination it's always it's always good to have money you know in your pocket sit up so always thinking at all should you go up three times a week or should just make it that one time a week well you know the answer to that we're going to medical I get this this question asked a lot to get all the emails about that so yeah just get right into it so as you know you may not know when you come to Dubai when you get that job offer when you get accepted to a company you need to do your visa under that company's sponsorship and you need to do a medical and fingerprints but medical immigrants are here together so what that what that means that you'll need to get your your blood test and you need to get your chest x-rayed and that's pretty much it's pretty much it and then they take your fingerprints for you to get your Emirates ID so the whole process is it's painless it's a blood test if you're afraid of needles when you're four needles what to do and it's basically to check if you don't have any serious disease mostly to check if you have HIV if you do sorry about that but it's kind of weird that that I mean they won't allow it they won't allow you to work if you do have it but that's for another topic I guess it was just that another video but yeah in any case that that's what you have to undergo if you do want to if you do want a job and if you do get a job that's what you have to do okay guys that's gonna do it for me today I hope this video was helpful to you guys to my new subscribers well this is this is kind of a recap of most of my videos to my old subscribers as always thank you guys for watching you know you've been there since the beginning since this started I'll I'm still reading your emails please please don't stress if I'm not answering you guys I mean I'm getting tons I don't know why I'm getting so much lately but I'm really trying to get to each and every one of you guys for taking time to write to me I should take the time to write back to you and I'm trying to do that so please bear with me some of the emails and getting is literally like a wallet text and I'm trying to really go through all of them right so if you've enjoyed this video please leave a like subscribe if you're new and I'll see you guys the next one peace

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Length: 13min 55sec (835 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 30 2016