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Aid Workers: The New Gypsies?

You're an aid worker with 10+ years experience under your belt. You earn a pittance but it works for you because you are non-resident at home so you don't pay tax, you are catered for on assignment so you don't pay rent, and your mortgage is covered by the people renting your place because you are never there. You can't hold down a relationship for more than 3 months and you secretly know that despite what you tell him/her it's really not because you're only ever there for 3 months... it's because you can't live without the independence.

This is how this funny, striking and very, very realistic assessment of life after aid-working is. Kudos to Shylock! To read the complete article: http://www.aidworkers.net/?q=node/891

You will also find equally interesting comments from readers of this article on the same website.
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