Blue Chi’s

Don’t know what happened to my post on this, but anyway, I started working, I’ve written an email to a friend of mine which I think is a good summary on this:

I started working at the MOLA (Ministry of Legal Affairs) here in Oman, those people are the ones that gave me the scholarship, so I was bound to come work here, they recruited me even before my graduation certificate came, nobody asked me what my grade was, nobody asked me what subjects I took, working with the government really feels like working with the government. It’s crazy. Anyway, I’m employed as a legal researcher, we have to approve any commercial transactions the government undertakes with a value more than 0.5M Omani Rials, so my job mostly involves checking contracts and at times helping draft certain terms when the government and the other party can’t settle on something. I have not been getting a lot of work cause I’m still very new in here, but working here is supposed to offer us the opportunity to get a lot of experience as all sorts of contracts from various fields (oil, transport, etc) have to pass through us. The pay is not great, but they’re supposed to send me do my masters in two years, so I’m not complaining. The place itself is awesome, I’ve been given my own office with a telephone, a computer and broadband connection, they get me the newspaper daily and I don’t have a lot of real work to do, so I’m just hanging around and … replying to emails. (You’re reading a live a example.)

Overall, I really like the place and eventually they’ll give me some work to do. Our working hours in Ramadhan have gone down to 5.30 hours only, we start at 9 and finish by 2.30. (Talk about Holy blessings!!)

Hopefully I’ll post more details in upcoming posts!