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We have young engineers who are fed up with the uncomfortable domestic political and economic climate in recent years and are planning to set up a new life for themselves in Western Europe or North America. Our young doctors, engineers, software experts and educationists probably do not believe that establishing a new life and a new order there is not that easy. It is not at all easy to leave the environment you are used to, to be placed in a very different culture in a geography that is very foreign to you, and to learn another language in order to speak it fluently. On the contrary, there are also reciprocal cases. There are foreigners who voluntarily come here and marry here, spend the rest of their lives here. In this article I am telling about one of them precious person.
In the early 1990s, I was working in a large private company as an industrial contractor. A school friend of ours who left our company and got a job of his own came to the office one day with an American about our age. He introduced us to an American expat engineer whom he had met while working at the American facilities. He was born and raised in the United States, an educated knowledgeable civil engineer with five generations of British German Irish immigrant blood, very experienced in contracting as well as project management. He was also a Vietnam veteran.
Of course, it was not necessary to be a mechanical engineer to work with us, there was always a need for an experienced engineer who could interpret the fine details of the contract in English on behalf of the company he works for and manage the project Is. After some time, he joined our Turkish-American joint venture company. He took up field management of thermal power plants and contract management of the works taken up by us. There must have been serious changes in his personal life before coming to Turkey. He was divorced in the United States but was financially supporting his ex-wife and their children. He wanted to be as far away from his American ex-wife as possible. We worked together in the company for nine years on domestic and international projects. He worked in Bursa Bisenergi, Pakistan Quetta, B&W Kemerkoy FGD project, as sold in Jordan and Kazakhstan. He was a secretive, serious, quiet man who spoke very carefully in short sentences, he did not reveal details about his personal life. He managed the projects he did very carefully and meticulously within the given budget.
In later times, he fell in love and married a beautiful widowed Turkish woman who was an academician at a university in Ankara. They didn’t have new kids. They had good relations with each other. We went on an Antakya Aleppo tour in 2004 with my spouse as part of a MeToo alumni organization. We had breakfast together. At that time Syria was like a closed box.
Then our American partner company went into financial trouble, the so-called Chapter 11, and pulled out of all foreign partnerships in the process. The share of the foreign company is given to the domestic partner. The joint venture company was dissolved. I severed ties with the company. I started working in Istanbul.
Our expat friend also left the JV company and started working for another large local contracting company in Ankara that does business with US facilities. He became the contract manager. I followed Career Change on LinkedIn. He documented each communication in written notes. He recently became a manager in a new Turkish-American joint venture company. He established his company in the United States and entered into manufacturing operations at American facilities in the Middle East region. Later in the course of time, he passed away and everything was over. Behind is a short LinkedIn post.
They gave us the experience of the local company abroad and the domestic market, the complete project discipline that has not yet been fully instilled in us, the seriousness of human relations in the field and the adherence to contract details. While I have nothing to say to Turkish young professionals to migrate abroad, I have always appreciated those foreign experts who voluntarily left their own comfortable environment to come to our environment and spend time and effort with us. He was a good man, rest in peace.
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