Work Work Work, I dont Like It

well this is my first proper job in about 4 years, I am actually working as the start up engineer on a revamp of 3 turbo-compressors in the central region of Tunisia, it is a real job working about 10 hours a day and a couple of hours driving and lunch, making a 13 hour day, so its dark when i leave and dark when i get home. This is not acceptable, i dont want to work for a living, I just want to mess about and point my finger at people, I have been spoiled this last couple of years and now i am working it is hard to accept the cold reality of real work.
Anyway, the hotel is nice and comfortable and the food is really nice and very different and even exotic, i havent had any problems with the food bowel wise and this is a massive bonus, as anyone who had worked overseas knows, trying to work when having the shits is no fun, plus it makes oyu feel miserable but here i am Ok apart from the lack of sleep, getting up so early is a killer.

I actually went out to a small town on the coast for a few beers on saturday night, i wasnt sure what to expect, but not hordes of middles aged German women, it looked more like downtown middlesboro, with all these large wrinklòy women probably looking for some north african stud to give them a good sorting out, we laughed a lot and drank the beers in happy hour and when we asked for more beer they arrived with a bucket of ice with a bottle of vodka and cans of red bull, telling us we had to pay 100 dinars, about $80, we told them to go and screw the local donkey, and left for the next bar across the road, which was OK and had more old european women in it and lots of young north african studs looking to score, not a site you would think of as Africa, we left and arrived home at 3.30 am, this was not good as we had to get up at 7 for a late start on the job on Sunday, i was beat but i again put in a good 6 hours work before i flagged and my brain felt spongy,

I only saw it at night but it looked like all the other placves here, lots of dogs and plastic bags in the gutter, cinder block houses with flat roofs and a miserable idea of what a good house looks like



We have a very tight schedule and all things have to be completed in 10 days time and they have 1 of the compressors apart and tons of things to do, we may eb ready we may not, but i know that when we are done i am going to another more remote station in the desert but again we have a nice hotel about 50 Km away, i can see nothing but work and more work ahead for the next 6-8 weeks, but i have to try and think about the money after the dollars fall and my small pay rise i have basically had a 20% rise this contract and that will go along way in Costa Rica, I shall have my little holiday to a nice Ecolodge Hotel when i get back at christmas