Well - assuming the story he told me was true...
I worked once with someone who had worked in the Falklands as a civilian contractor. They had a safety briefing from an army officer who came into the room carrying a pole with a plain aluminium rectangle at the top.
"This", he said, "is the most dangerous thing you can find on the island."
They all looked bemused.
He turned it round to show that the other side said DANGER - MINEFIELD.
He turned it back. "If you see this side, it means you are in the minefield. So far you've been lucky - do not push your luck and try to walk back out - stay where you are and someone will find you."
This can only happen when travelling by helicopter.
like I said, no one at home to send money back to so whatever I didn't spend would just sit in the bank..
flat to pay mortgage on.. but I could rent it out while I'm away to pay for that...
don't drink except for xmas and on holidays because it's hot ( so no problem there.. )...
if they had decent TV and internet access then I'd be very tempted to have a go at it..
Don't know on internet but TV is a mixture with Coronation street and East Enders on same channel.
Experience and competence is a must for this role as you will often be working in pressure situations and have tight timescales to contend with.
In other words, you could be called on at 3am to repair some broken piece of machinery which has to be up and running in the next 10 minutes.
£27k for the 13 months is about £68 per day - although probably not working every single day it would feel like it, since nowhere else to go and not a lot else to do either.
No will not happen. You may be told to get on an Eric or Wocker and be sent to mountain site. Once there you are on your own. You must be able to fix what ever has gone wrong. Now I think the generators are looked after by same firm as do rest so you may need to work on generators.
I would buy a 2 meter radio and then you can talk to locals. No exam to get licence there only an interview it was £5 for special 2 meter and £10 for full HF licence. You could join armature radio club they should have 2 meter as I gave them it. They also had HF and a 3 element beam. But if you go to any settlement you need 2 meter for safety.
Also you need a all in one plastic suit but I expect you will get issued with that. Wind is high and if weather changes main thing is to stop wind chill so plastic suit best for that. Good boots are a bonus as well.
Also no good if colour blind as you need to see colour of lights on runway but I would not expect an electrician to be colour blind.
I had a great time. Visits to Island Harbour House, Fitzroy, Riverside, Stanley, Goose Green, Byron Hights, Mount Alias, Estanca, and even North Arm. By Landrover, Boat and Helicopter. Never did get ride in Islander aircraft.
Worst is being dropped off by helicopter when fog is down. They come to pick you up in BV and once sighted you have to jump off hovering helicopter I have sank in peat up to waist and had to clamber out with luggage and tool box to get to BV. Lucky wearing full immersion suit.
There are always the Kelvin Kittens I think mostly St Helena now I think! Early days they were all Scottish but at least there are some women around.
We had our own bar and booze was all from Scotland McEwan's in our bar but locals drink Carlsberg mainly Elephant and Porta both very strong.
And if you don't like it there are two planes a week.
