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To: TobagoJack who wrote (135565)	9/15/2017 12:39:59 AM
From: Elroy Jetson	Read Replies (2) of 217588

Many people are up for the adventure of living in different parts of the world during their career and they tend to get compensated well for doing so. The very last thing anyone with money in China wants is a young or old Chinese architect whose head is filled with the same old tired Chinese building designs. That's as old as civilization. When the wealthy in Europe wanted to display their wealth, fine engraved or hammered German-made gold plates were out of fashion replaced with porcelain plates and bowls made from exotic types of dirt and crushed rocks in far off Jingdezhen. Porcelain cost far more by weight than gold. That's the problem for most in the building industry, you have to go to where the building is taking place. And worse, building is cyclical so you'd best have savings or something else to do when no one is building. Before China was building cities, most of the big architecture projects were in the Middle East. The number of jobs like I had at a home builder, working in the headquarters in Westwood Village and flying the company jet out on a day trip to check what was going on where they were building are limited to just two floors of people out of the huge number who worked for the company. Out of 40,000 employees working for Chevron 4,000 got to work at the San Francisco headquarters. Huge additional numbers of people worked for contractors around the globe. Engineers graduate and go to work for a company like Bechtel in San Francisco, but within a few years find themselves in some place like Aceh Indonesia for 7 years building roads so the Indonesian government can get troops to remote parts of the island to control anti-government guerrillas faster. When I was young I was very certain I wanted to remain a palace courtier in some fashion. If you want to live in a particular place like "the palace", you have to think through what sort of career is going to continue to make you useful at the palace so you don't have to find yourself some place else. During the time of Caesar some people found lucrative careers in Rome but if you wanted to make your fortune you had better want to be in Londinium in Britannia or cities in Eastern Gaul like Lausanne.

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