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What to Expect When Becoming an Overseas Contractor | Part 1
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good afternoon welcome back to the J or
a wisdom channel and as useful coming to
you with a another video this has been
requested I've been getting a lot of
questions on this lately I haven't done
I did a previous video on this topic
which i will link probably up to the end
of this video you guys can check it out
because there's many people interested
in becoming the overseas contractor for
obvious reasons so I'm just going to
touch on a few things that I'm being
asked first thing as a disclaimer I'm no
longer a contractor overseas this is
particularly more so for applying to the
Middle East in Southwest Asia ie
Afghanistan Pakistan
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please don't email me asking me how can
I get you in or how can I do this or
what companies because none of these
companies are paying me to do this video
so I know what companies I know where
you should start off at if that's
something that you want to do but feel
free to email me message me all the
links are in the description but realize
that information is gonna cost just like
you would pay to go to college to get to
learn how to make money this is this
information isn't free either so and
look at it as an investment in yourself
for making six figures so if you don't
like that you can go ahead click off
this video but I'm just I just wanted to
put this out there so that people can
see it and understand what's going on
basically what you need to know first of
all is there's there's different
contractors you have to think about what
it is if it's in your field maybe it's
not in your field there's so many
different areas for you to go into it
you got to look at what most of the jobs
that are overseas are what would be
required to run if you just started a
new city and that's basically what it is
is these fobs and you know how posts and
opiez and things like that what's
required to run
let's say luck of jail pretty much the
same thing of small town that's what's
that those are the jobs you got security
jobs you have you know by biometrics you
have food cooks you have logistics is a
big thing you have Postal Service you
have pilots firefighters aircraft you
have combat arms operators you know
weapons maintenance if you're a mechanic
you have all these different things
drivers CDL drivers commercial drivers
you have all these things on there the
first thing you need to to consider
which is what makes make makes or breaks
a lot of people when making the decision
because there are people that go home
because they can't deal with the austere
areas is it getting better because we've
been in a lot of these countries a long
time but you need to realize first of
all depend on your contract you're not
gonna be seeing your family if you're
especially if you've been someone if
you've never been really anywhere and
you're gonna run your family your whole
life you're not really gonna be seeing
your family you made some some companies
don't even allow you to they like a lot
you one vacation
I won R&R as it's called rest of
relaxation one R&R a year and that can
be any way any anywhere from two weeks
to thirty days or whatever HAP it all
depends just on what contract you get so
you have to expect that you won't be
seeing your girlfriend boyfriend husband
wife children any of those things you
won't be seeing that for um for for some
time so expect that same thing with a
lot of the things that you love to eat
and it won't be readily available
alcohol you know they have alcohol and
drugs over there just like anything else
you're gonna
have to do without a lot of these things
because it's like it's not allowed
you're there to work and for the
majority you're working seven days a
week there are other situations but from
my experience most people work seven
days a week 12 hours a day Europe you're
not over there to be relaxed and you're
over there to be working you over there
to be making you're working at 84 hours
a week so you're over there to make as
much money as possible
that's what you need to keep your mind
on a lot of people get caught up on
trying to do other things like drink
smoke have sex and basically what that
what that leads to is that you've
getting kicked out of theater or either
banned from that company not not to say
it won't happen but you get banned from
that particular contractor and that's it
you're banned from theater all over a
beer or some alcohol or just because you
want it you want it to you want to get
it into there have sex now there are
people who are doing that but I mean
last time I check unless you're married
is not allowed but if you're caught
they're gonna dismiss you since then
your home as far as if you have health
issues or if you you have a lot of
people who are up in age who are older
who have trouble passing the physical
which is like the hardest part for some
people so you need to make sure your
health as anyone before you go over
there because you will have to do a
physical once a year and if you if you
can't pass that physical you can't go
back into theater you know you're done
so keep in mind of all these factors as
far as you get used to this cash flow
making you know ideally for the most
part you making six figures or better
some people make less depending on
obviously where you're at and that the
capacity of the job that you're in but
you need to take care of yourself as
much as possible you need to
focus on your health make sure that your
good before you even leave because you
don't have access to doctors over there
you have they have like clinics and
things like that and I think it's
getting better where they do have like
independent contracting doctors over
there but for the most part if you need
anything like seriously done you
actually have to fly out and go to Dubai
or it probably said in Arabic Dube and
you have to be seen there and you don't
get paid while you're there so your your
footing your own dime but the good thing
about most overseas went um health
insurance when you are seeing overseas
everything's 100% covered overseas today
mostly a lot of these places they have
good health insurance good health
coverage so your family is good to go
back in the States but you just the
biggest thing that I would suggest is
you have that in your mind once you're
selected that you have an exit plan
after that you have something to fall
back on so for some reason you get hurt
injured or an emergency comes up and you
have to leave theater and you can't come
back be prepared because it's real easy
unless unless you're doing the smart
thing with your money and saving because
there's a lot of people who get over
there they start making that money they
think it's gonna last forever and that's
definitely definitely not the case the
money doesn't last forever it's good I
mean there's people that has been
overseas since since the Iraqi war
kicked off they've been overseas and
haven't come back that's what 17 years
now I guess no going on 17 years goes
with August 2011 who stood out
whenever March March 2002 I can't
remember which one ever kicked off but
basically it's people who's been
overseeing since then and some of them
really don't have anything to show for
it they either take lavish trips blow
their money spend their money on
prostitutes things those things like
that when you you should have this is a
business this is a business deal you're
over there to work and make money and
and you're your primary focus should be
to to reach that goal
so there are low cap contracts which I
believe are the best contracts are the
law cap contracts love cap for whatever
you want to call it those are the best
contracts that have a lot of these
contracts they give you a sign up bonus
or the bonus is after 30 days or the
bonus you get a bonus every 90 days
something you know of several thousand
dollars it just all depends on what kind
of contract you drive you it's it's in
my opinion so it's if you don't have any
family I would highly recommend it if
you don't have a significant other and
you're just trying to get your money up
to start a business or you know stack up
some equity in the bank or whatever some
savings I would definitely recommend it
but or if you just trying to put your
kids through school you're just trying
to get in a better financial situation
but just think smart before you're doing
it a lot of times people
get over there and they you know you
network and you move into a better
position or you can apply to to go to
different positions you're not gonna get
a choice for the most part to go where
you want to go at so sometimes there's
entrance positions that you can get in
and you can work your way from nerve
showing that you have experience you
have people start out in certain
positions and they translate to other
positions with higher pay overall and it
just keep going going going until they
make p.m. or whatever like that getting
close to the late 100 early 200s 4000 so
it's last time I checked I believe it
was tax-free everything is tax-free up
to 90 to 5 or something like that
it's been a while but your tax-free up
to 92 5 this for obviously this is more
geared to where people in the United
States the tax-free up to 92 5 anything
after that your text so basically your
tax-free as long as you're not in the
States any more than 35 days throughout
the tax year calendar year with I know
it's two different things but throughout
the tax year as long as you're not in
the States over 35 days you qualify for
that so there's people who try to cheat
the system and lie when they found her
taxes just like you know against
thousands or millions of other other
Americans just lying on their taxes but
you're rolling the dice taking that
chance you get caught you're gonna pay
it back so what else what else we want
to talk about that I'm here about the
age I get I get told about I get asked
about your record it the record just
depends you could have some made me may
say something about a felony not no
felonies within the past seven years
they may not check a lot of them require
an extensive background checks on and
require no background checks when I say
background check I mean at the at the
government level where they're going and
get the Knakal nac-nac LC whatever you
wanna call it they actually you have to
list like basically your whole life
story in there
and if they find out you're lying
they're gonna question you about it or
that me bar you from it so misdemeanors
are fine things like that felonies for
the most part the some companies were
asked have you ever been charged some
glass have you ever been convicted
there's two different things between
being charged and convicted as you know
I'm not gonna get into that because this
is an illegal Channel welcome but uh
someway asks have you had one within
seven years have you been have you had
any felonies within seven years things
like that it's just all different things
that you know as long as you're
physically healthy and things like that
you have a pretty clean you have a
pretty decent record bar
