employment in Ukraine

[10bdub]

I am a respiratory therapist.  Can anyone tell me if this type of employment is available in Ukraine?  To be more specific, I am asking if the medical community in Ukraine is similar to America.  Thanks.

[JR]

Well I hear that they breath

Google it, theres a few sites that post salaries of said vocation in Ukraine.

[ECOCKS]

Sure, they have people who do that job.

Pay would be around $200 or so a month in the government clinics and maybe twice that in a private clinic.

The odds of you finding a job in a private clinic are very low. The odds of being hired in a government facility are much lower.

Most westerners would have difficulty living off of the pay.

[krimster]

wussup bro?

My wife's cousin is an MD and works at a hospital in Odessa, her base salary 3 years ago was 150 USD/month.  Don't know what it is today.  Respiratory care is a bit different in Ukraine than in the West.  For example, took my then 6 year old to a respiratory clinic to deal with her upper respiratory inflammation as a result of allergies.  The treatment was to sit in a room with salt vapors, which of course didn't do very much (I accompanied her).  Inhalation equipment looks like it was fabricated from surplus farm machinery looks to be older than me and judging by its condition not too sanitary, so we took a trip to Germany and bought one there for about 200 USD which provided us with the most modern inhaler in Crimea.

I used to use my idle brain capacity when I wasn't dealing with my projects of curing AIDS or developing practical nuclear fusion to help people like yourself.  My initial conclusion was that it would be more practical to buy some service or material in Ukraine and export it to the West, than to try and coax money out of poor Ukrainians.  Here is the short list that I produced:

1. Probably every city in Ukraine has an outdoor "Farmer's Market" kind of thing where local artists come and sell their arts and crafts.  A really nice oil painting can be had for under 100 USD and could easily sell for up to 1,000 USD in the right store in the USA, also found amazing embroidery for the same price.  A lot of details in buying, shipping, and selling, but I believe there's potential there to make a business.

2. Pharmaceuticals - You can buy pharmaceuticals of every kind for a MUCH cheaper price in Ukraine than in the USA.  Hook yourself up to a wholesaler or learn how to become one.  Example, a prescription of Flagyl costs today $270 at CVS, in Ukraine, under $3.  Again, the details of buying, shipping, selling (your own on-line pharmacy).

3. Porn - Contact UkrTelekom for a T-1 line, set up your apartment with webcams, sell videos, interactive and stills, calendars, etc. you'll start out at $10,000/mo but if you do everything right this can become $50,000/mo.  (This is all hypothetical - stuff I read out, but if you need advice on which video codecs, server software to use PM me)

I had a business of software development contracting in Ukraine that I did for 8 years (lived there for 3) which before the crash was very successful.  Having an experienced  native English speaker, and being in a time zone just one hour away from Europe gave us a huge competitive advantage over Indian and Chinese outsourcing firms.

BTW, don't expect the locals there to be enthralled with your experience or background, they have a big chip on their shoulder about the West, kinda like a short guy with a major "Napoleon complex", and you're 6 foot 4!



 

 

[janic]

3. Porn - Contact UkrTelekom for a T-1 line, set up your apartment with webcams, sell videos, interactive and stills, calendars, etc. you'll start out at $10,000/mo but if you do everything right this can become $50,000/mo.

Nice idea, but I'm quite sure that a very few months after starting out you'll get some uninvited business-partners...
(Yes, I've personal experience with such a situation. - Although it wasn't in UA.)

[krimster]

after the foundation ya gotta have a krisha
you can like totally use the krisha soldati for the gay content, they are TOTALLY into this, I mean, that's what I heard...

[smartcat]

The idea of producing or spreading porn in Ukraine is just delightful! At least who would be delighted is local police and SBU (so-called Ukrainian KGB). It's a criminal activity.
"The foreigner involved in porn-business at Ukrainian territory has been caught"
A slogan for a newspaper article. It could be a nice public issue, if found.
Technically you can pay police off for a while and do it. But authorities might decide to sacrifice you for any political reason, as you are a foreigner in porn business...