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Ghana (Continued)

December 19, 2004 ( life )

I thought I'd made a decsion on Ghana, but nooooo, they have to be all flexible and shit. They're OK with waiting until mid-January for me to head out there (presuming I will be in dialog with the people who've begun work on the project). There's an inital deadline in Feb/Mar for some form of the website to be live and working, but the project could extend through another few months, and realistically, is likely to not be a done deal in ~ 1 month. It's a 3-part project for which I'll be the web guy, there's also a DB part of it (any DB programmers wanna go to Ghana this Spring? They're lookin), and a V/Sat person to link remote databases to the website via sat-links.

Here's their initial project description:

The MISTOWA project resource center will create a portal web site that links the public to producer organizations, trader organizations, regional market information systems, and other important websites throughout the region in order to increase regional trade. Marketing information, prices, publications, market news, directories, information on grades and standards, transport road conditions, credit options, etc will be available through the MISTOWA Resource Center website. The RATIN system in East Africa is a good example of the model that the MISTOWA Resource Center will follow, www.ratin.net.

I need a pro/con list I think:

GhanaAustin
PROCONPROCON
  • Outside of US
  • Excellent resume fodder (esp. for my intended line of work)
  • USAID, more Int'l Dev contacts
  • New Experience
  • Maybe learn some French (Update: or not, it was a British Colony :( )
  • Learn what that weird wingding/adinkra font means
  • Don't have to move all my crap from San Angelo yet (especially good if I do grad in DC)
  • Better living conditions than PC
  • Another country, another continent
  • It'd only be ~4-5 months probably, uncertain termination date really -- but, very high likelihood that it would carry me through to grad school acceptance/rejection time, which enables me to make informed decisions about where to move afterwards.
  • No addition to savings for grad school (but really, how much will I manage to save in Austin?)
  • Malaria medication
  • Living in a hotel
  • Back to the tropical heat
  • Potentially could increase saved money
  • Doesn't burn Neil
  • Standard Austin Benefits (familiarity, wireles, coffeehouses, Central Market)
  • I know peeps in Austin
  • Back to Austin
  • If I do Austin for Grad school, I get Austin benefits for Fall
  • If I don't do Austin for Grad school, I have to move (including the Big Stuff) AGAIN
  • I wouldn't have a car
  • Miguel's is closed :(

OK, so, the Ghana-Pro list is pretty long. I also realize that I'm in the enviable postition of choosing between two different jobs with different (and unique) benefits.

Posted by griffjon at December 19, 2004 05:20 PM

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