Would you risk your life...

[DaveB]

for £90k a year?

BBC News - Life in Iraq as seen by travellers at Baghdad airport

In return for risking their lives, men like Rob can earn £90,000 ($146,000) a year, sometimes more, mostly tax-free.

[doodab]

for £90k a year?

BBC News - Life in Iraq as seen by travellers at Baghdad airport

Well at the moment, I'm overweight with high blood pressure and I drink too much, primarily because I sit in an office for 8 or more hours a day staring at a computer screen, so I guess the answer is yes

[Mich the Tester]

No, I wouldn't, but it's a lot of money for most people.

[Spacecadet]

Risk is always relative. What looks risky to the BBC reporter who probably tulips himself getting the tube after 9pm is normal life for those chaps

[EternalOptimist]

I laugh in the face of danger




and I feel foul scorn that Parma or any other prince should have a go,




I say





Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with our English dead.
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility:
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger;
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,
Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage;
Then lend the eye a terrible aspect;
Let pry through the portage of the head
Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it
As fearfully as doth a galled rock
O'erhang and jutty his confounded base,
Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean.
Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide,
Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit
To his full height. On, on, you noblest English.
Whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof!
Fathers that, like so many Alexanders,
Have in these parts from morn till even fought
And sheathed their swords for lack of argument:
Dishonour not your mothers; now attest
That those whom you call'd fathers did beget you.
Be copy now to men of grosser blood,
And teach them how to war. And you, good yeoman,
Whose limbs were made in England, show us here
The mettle of your pasture; let us swear
That you are worth your breeding; which I doubt not;
For there is none of you so mean and base,
That hath not noble lustre in your eyes.
I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
Straining upon the start. The game's afoot:
Follow your spirit, and upon this charge
Cry 'God for Harry, England, and Saint George!

[doodab]

Risk is always relative. What looks risky to the BBC reporter who probably tulips himself getting the tube after 9pm is normal life for those chaps

Perception of risk may be subjective but the fact is you are more likely to die or get hurt doing some things, or working in some places, than others. Considering something "normal" doesn't make it less dangerous, arguably it has the opposite effect as you are likely to become complacent.

[MarillionFan]

Not me. I got offered a contract there last year, money comparable with UK but tax free. Balls to that.

Went on the piss with a group of ex-army/private security guys in Bangkok who were earning 80/90k.

Big drinking, straight talking, hard bastards who all seemed a little psychotic to me with a shortened life span.

They're welcome to it.

[SimonMac]

I already have for a lot less money!

I've worked in Bradford for £12k a year

[NotAllThere]

I was reading in the Times about a single mum who works as a mine clearer in Croatia. I doubt she get's a third of that.

[Mich the Tester]

I was reading in the Times about a single mum who works as a mine clearer in Croatia. I doubt she get's a third of that.

Yep, but seeing as there's only a third of her left over from the last mine, she doesn't need the full salary.