We have decided that this will be our last year at our current school and are beginning to look for positions for the 2009-10 school year. We have been at the same school in Asia for 5 years. We got our current positions by contacting the school directly, but this time around we are thinking about attending a job fair. We are trying to decide between Search and ISS. We would most likely go to the Bangkok job fair. It looks like a lot of the same schools attend both fairs. Does anyone have any experience with the Bangkok fairs? Is one better than the other?
Thanks in advance!
M

I’m glad this topic came up because it is something we have been thinking about a lot lately. We have been overseas for 5 years and have 2 children who were born here. We plan to go recruiting next year. We have no plans to go back to the U.S.

As far as retirement savings go, we are aware that we cannot contribute to our IRAs. Right now we are putting our savings into mutual funds in a regular, taxable account. We have been advised that if we contribute to an annuity, then we can contribute a matching amount to our IRAs. We were told about this through an investment firm so I am not sure if it is the best route or if they are just trying to sell us the annuity.
Does anyone do that? Does it make sense to do that (I’m thinking in terms of taxes and consideration for financial aid when our kids want to go to college)?

We are also wondering about life insurance. We have term life policies, but now that we have kids we are looking for something more. All of the expat policies that I have looked at are much more expensive. Can we get regular, term life insurance through U.S. companies and live overseas?